SAWA (Support Association for Afghan Women)

Website: www.sawa-australia.org

Event/Project Type: Move – 2 screenings – 2pm and 6pm

Event/Project Description: Frame by Frame, set in a modern Afghanistan bursting with colour and character, Directors Alexandria Bombach and Mo Scarpelli follows four Afghan photojournalists as they navigate an emerging and dangerous media landscape reframing Afghanistan for the world, and for themselves. When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, taking a photo was a crime. After the regime fell from power in 2001, a fledgling free press emerged and a photography revolution was born.  In light of foreign troops and media withdrawing (though it now appears Australia will send more troops), Afghanistan has been left to stand on its own, as are its journalists. Through cinema vérité, intimate interviews, powerful photojournalism, and never-before-seen archival footage shot in secret during the Taliban regime, the film connects audiences with four humans in the pursuit of the truth.

Venue: Launceston College Theatre, 107 Paterson St. (laneway opposite Royal Park)

Contact: Ros Lewis

 rlewis8@bigpond.net.au   

Start Date 7 August

Opening hours of your venue:  5.45 for 6

wheelchair access: Yes

Entry/Participation Cost:  Suggested donation: 2pm gold coin, 6pm $5 or more with all donations going to SAWA (Support Association for Afghan Women) Receipts available at the door.

To help us with organising, please book at

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/frame-by-frame-movie-6pm-screening-tickets-35159549158

All donations go to SAWA-Australia,  a not-for-profit organization to provide Afghan women with education and health services for a future Afghanistan free of fundamentalist violence and foreign interference. It was established in 2004.

It is incorporated in South Australia and coordinates regional groups in Victoria, Western Australia, Tasmania and Queensland.

It is dedicated to raising funds for human rights, education, nutrition, health, safety, and improving the self-esteem of Afghanistan's women and children, including those who live as refugees in Pakistan. Within these aims SAWA-Australia (SA) is responsible for the financial support of a Vocational Training Centre for illiterate women in Kabul, for a hospital in Farah, Afghanistan's poorest province, for student scholarships given to residents of orphanages and for occasional other projects. Its partners in Afghanistan are RAWA, the Revolutionary Asosciation of the Women of Afghanistan, and OPAWC, the Organization for Promoting Afghan Women's Capabilities.

SAWA is not your ordinary charity. It is operated entirely by volunteers and does not have to use part of its donation income to pay any staff. As a consequence SAWA has extremely low administrative overheads (between 1 and 2%), and all donations given to SAWA-Australia (SA) go to its projects in Afghanistan.

SAWA's strength comes from its members. Annual membership is $20, $10 concession and $5 for students, $100 for organizations. www.sawa-australia.org

SAWA (Support Association for Afghan Women)

Website: www.sawa-australia.org

Event: Move – 2 screenings – 2pm and 6pm

Event/Project Description: Frame by Frame, set in a modern Afghanistan bursting with colour and character, Directors Alexandria Bombach and Mo Scarpelli follows four Afghan photojournalists as they navigate an emerging and dangerous media landscape reframing Afghanistan for the world, and for themselves. When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, taking a photo was a crime. After the regime fell from power in 2001, a fledgling free press emerged and a photography revolution was born.  In light of foreign troops and media withdrawing (though it now appears Australia will send more troops), Afghanistan has been left to stand on its own, as are its journalists. Through cinema vérité, intimate interviews, powerful photojournalism, and never-before-seen archival footage shot in secret during the Taliban regime, the film connects audiences with four humans in the pursuit of the truth.

Venue: Launceston College Theatre, 107 Paterson St. (laneway opposite Royal Park)

 Contact: Ros Lewis

rlewis8@bigpond.net.au   

Start Date 7 August

Start Time: 2pm

Opening hours of your venue: 1.45 for 2.00 

 wheelchair access: Yes

Entry/Participation Cost:  Suggested donation: 2pm gold coin, 6pm $5 or more with all donations going to SAWA (Support Association for Afghan Women) Receipts available at the door.

To help us with organising, please book at

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/frame-by-frame-movie-2pm-screening-tickets-35159351567  

All donations go to SAWA-Australia,  a not-for-profit organization to provide Afghan women with education and health services for a future Afghanistan free of fundamentalist violence and foreign interference. It was established in 2004.

It is incorporated in South Australia and coordinates regional groups in Victoria, Western Australia, Tasmania and Queensland.

It is dedicated to raising funds for human rights, education, nutrition, health, safety, and improving the self-esteem of Afghanistan's women and children, including those who live as refugees in Pakistan. Within these aims SAWA-Australia (SA) is responsible for the financial support of a Vocational Training Centre for illiterate women in Kabul, for a hospital in Farah, Afghanistan's poorest province, for student scholarships given to residents of orphanages and for occasional other projects. Its partners in Afghanistan are RAWA, the Revolutionary Asosciation of the Women of Afghanistan, and OPAWC, the Organization for Promoting Afghan Women's Capabilities.

SAWA is not your ordinary charity. It is operated entirely by volunteers and does not have to use part of its donation income to pay any staff. As a consequence SAWA has extremely low administrative overheads (between 1 and 2%), and all donations given to SAWA-Australia (SA) go to its projects in Afghanistan.

SAWA's strength comes from its members. Annual membership is $20, $10 concession and $5 for students, $100 for organizations. www.sawa-australia.org

When is peace wrong?

Organisation: Launceston Philosophy Café hosted by the University of Tasmania

Event: Facilitated philosophical discussion

Description: 

The Philosophy Café is a regular opportunity for members of the Launceston community to meet and discuss, in some depth, a philosophical topic of their own choosing. The Café is hosted by philosophers from the University of Tasmania as part of its commitment to ongoing intellectual engagement with the broader Tasmanian community.

As part of the Tamar Peace Festival the Philosophy Café will consider the question: when is peace wrong?

Venue: Royal Oak Hotel, Brisbane St, Launceston

Contact:  Graham Wood

Entry: Free

Join alumnus Martin Flanagan as he presents a short film about his father's experience of war and move towards peace and reconciliation in his life.  This will be followed with Martin sharing how this has influenced him, where it's led him and subsequent learnings.

Martin was born in Tasmania in 1955 and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Tasmania in 1975.

He has written 16 books, a play and two film treatments. For the past 30 years, he has also written for The Age newspaper on culture, politics and sport – in particular, on the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australia.

When: Monday 31 July 2017, 6:00pm (refreshments from 5:30pm)

Where:Annexe Theatre, Inveresk Campus, Launceston

Register: utasalumni.org.au/peace-2017

https://www.utasalumni.org.au/events?cid=1&ceid=256&cerid=0&cdt=31%2f07%2f2017

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/239258506579393/

Event: Music and contemplation

Description: Come-and-go-as-you-like contemplative experience with live instrumental music and periods of silence in a beautiful building.

Venue: Holy Trinity Anglican Church

 Contact: Karlin Love : karlinglove@gmail.com

wheelchair access: Yes

Free entry, donations welcome.

Event: Talk and questions at the Synagogue

Description:  Talk and questions at the Synagogue with George Goldsteen

Opening hours of venue: Building open before 2.00pm but please do not seat yourself until just before 2.00pm

Other Information:   Dress warmly

wheelchair access: Yes

PLACE OF PEACE

Friday, July 28, 2017 12:00am-4pm

Saturday, July 29, 2017 12:00am-4pm

Sunday, July 30, 2017 2.00pm-5:00pm

City Baptist Church, 11 Frederick Street Launceston, TAS, 7250Australia 

Our church building will be open free of charge on afternoons throughout the Festival weekend - to sit in quietness, to learn about the history, to chat over a cuppa.

Contact: Jeff McKinnon jeff@citybaptistchurch.net

wheelchair access: Yes, please see the person on duty.

www.citybaptistchurch.net

Description: Songs of Peace at Pilgrim with a simple afternoon tea.

Organisation:   Singcognito, Evandale Village Singers, Pilgrim Singers, Pilgrim JAM children including Glen Dhu Primary School Primary School Students

Venue: Pilgrim Uniting Church, Paterson St, Launceston

Contact:   Pilgrim Uniting Church Ph: 6331 8466 (Leave message if necessary for Caroline Ball)

wheelchair access: Yes

COMMUNITY KITCHEN

The Filipino women's group.

• Sunday, July 30, 2017
•  From 12pm
•  Dining Room of the Inveresk Tavern, 13 Dry St Invermay 

Website: www.facebook.com/inveresktavern/

Description: This is part of Launceston's Multicultural Flavours: a culinary and cultural journey.

This initiative is a collaboration between the Inveresk Tavern and Migrant Resource Centre Northern Tasmania Inc.

The aim is to:

• Help people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds feel welcome, form relationships and integrate into the local community.
• Provide them with broader social and support networks
• Raise cross cultural awareness in the community; and
• Provide an opportunity for groups to raise funds for their communities’ activities.

Wheelchair access: yes

Other information: Meal cost to be advised - menus will be published at https://www.facebook.com/inveresktavern/  

Drinks will be available at the adjoining bar. 

VENERABLE LAMA SAMTEN WEEKEND TEACHINGS - DAY 2 Coping with Loss & Grief. from a Buddhist perspective.

Cost $50 per day

 Bookings Essential: email - office@kagyu.org.au PH: 03 6334 9680

The word "loss" can mean many things. People say I have lost my mind; I have lost my wallet, or my job; I have lost my wife or husband; I have lost my country etc. These general expressions, they mean you are not able to find whatever it is you are looking for and could be quite mild on an emotional level.

However loss can also mean death: natural death or premature death. This is stronger, however both contain grief. Grief literally means the suffering of parting of separating. We don't like change, we don't like parting - we like meeting. the suffering of parting or separating these days is quite common: explosions, airplanes accidents, and other unexpected tragedies.

Venerable Lama Samten will explain how to deal with loss or grief.

Please bring a plate of vegetarian food for a shared lunch.

PEACE SERVICE

Sunday, July 30, 2017 10:00am

Join us to pray for peace around the world and to worship the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ.

 11 Frederick Street, Launceston TAS, 7250 Australia

Contact: Jeff McKinnon jeff@citybaptistchurch.net

wheelchair access: Yes, please see the person on duty.

www.citybaptistchurch.net

Drumming for Unity and Peace

30th July 2017

10am - 11 am

Launceston Cataract Gorge

Drum circle with drums, percussion and dance group (to be confirmed)

Tassie drum Circle is a free community drum circle that meet twice a month in Launceston and around Tasmania. We promote socialisation, friendship and peace in the community.

The event is by gold coin donation to cover the cost of wear and tear on drums and other equipment and to raise funds for this community drum circle in that they can purchase further drums for the public to use.

Cost of participation: $2.00 donation for coverage of free use of drums and percussion

contact: tassiedrumcircle@hotmail.com or 0439 189 886

PEACE PARTY

Saturday, July 29, 2017

6.30pm  8:30pm

Milton Hall 13 Frederick Street Launceston, TAS, 7250Australia 

THIS EVENT IS ONLY OPEN TO THE STREET COMMUNITY.

Please join us for a free meal for street people.

 Contact: Jeff McKinnon jeff@citybaptistchurch.net

Wheelchair access: Yes

www.citybaptistchurch.net

Welcome Dinner

Saturday, July 29, 2017

6:00pm  9:00pm

Venue : The old Uni café ( see map)  Under Education lecture theatres 1&2 - Map reference BE24

The Welcome Dinner Project is a national initiative that invites established locals and people new to Australia share a meal together. Everyone brings food to share that may be culturally or personally significant. We find that the friendships that begin over a Welcome Dinner help newly arrived people feel welcome in their new community as well as being very rewarding for established locals.

To come to the Peace Festival Welcome Dinner please email andrew@joiningthedots.org

The Welcome Dinner will be held at UTAS , 6pm-9pm on Saturday 29 July. 

The dinner is run by a team of facilitators. Expect a fun night of great food and conversation with people from many different cultural backgrounds. 

The event is free to attend, all we ask is that let us know that you are coming and that you bring a plate of food to share. 

This is an alcohol free event - please don't bring any alcoholic drinks. 

Once you email andrew@joiningthedots.org you'll be sent more details about the event.

UTAS Students participating, Please contact Emily Newman and she will take care of the recruitment and registering of UTAS students

Emily Newman: emily.newman@utas.edu.au

Wheelchair access: Yes

Consider arriving early and engage with the Human Library.

#utaslifelaunceston”

The Launceston Human Library invites you to come and spend 20mns of peaceful conversation with someone in our community you have not met before.

The Launceston Human Library program was awarded a Tasmanian Human Rights Award in 2014. It brings in to Launceston a methodology developed worldwide which aims at building a positive framework for conversations that can challenge stereotypes and prejudices through dialogue. The Human Library is a place where real people (from our community) are on loan to readers (you). A place where difficult questions are expected, appreciated and answered.

Participation is free.

Booking: Anyone can just turn up and read a Human Book on the spot BUT if you want to stay for the Welcome Dinner , you MUST BOOK

Date: Saturday 29 July

Time: 5:00pm 6:00pm

Venue: The Old Uni Café (under Education lecture theatres 1&2 - Map reference BE24)

University of Tasmania, Newnham Campus

Come at 5pm and allow time for a couple of 20mns conversations.

So far, we have the following Human Books  – there may be a few other titles as well, which we will confirm closer to the date.

·         The CARDS I WAS DEALT,- Life is like a game of cards. You can't choose what you're dealt but you can decide how to play them.

·         The CHALLENGE OF LIFE IN A WHEELCHAIR, The - How a spinal trauma changed my life overnight  

·         CLIMBING MOUNT KILIMANJARO, 1969 - Both a physical and a cultural adventure!

·         DISABILITY CAN’T STOP ME I am able to live independently, partly because my parents never gave up on me.

·         LIVING WITH A GUIDE DOG - Since my new friend's arrival, my daily life has changed for the best. Of course, it has come with a surprise or two…

·         MAKING AUSTRALIA MY NEW HOME - I came from Germany to Australia in 1952, to work on the Trevallyn Hydro scheme, and later worked as an Ansett employee. I have had varied life experiences.

·         TEARS FOR THE OPERA HOUSE - What was it that moved me to tears as a migrant ship sailed into Sydney Harbour? (Britishmigrant)

·         The VALLEY OF SEARCH - “The stages that mark the wayfarer’s journey are said to be seven”. My spiritual journeying began with agnosticism and ended with Baha’i. On the way I passed through strange “valleys”.

Note: Anyone can walk in and meet a Human Book (no bookings needed) … but if you are staying for the Welcome Dinner, you MUST BOOK ahead.

Any further information, feel free to contact Mike Mc Causland mmccausl@yahoo.com  or 0497 258 761

The program is an initiative of the City of Launceston.

Consider joining the Welcome Dinner (BOOKINGS REQUIRED) from 6:00 to 9:00pm in the same location (check event on Tamar Valley Peace festival) 

http://www.launcestonhumanlibrary.com.au/

Women Dance For Peace

An opportunity for women of all ages, nationalities and cultures to come together and dance.  There will be disco, Persian music, polka, belly dancing, Macarena and who knows what else?  Dance experience is not necessary, but enthusiasm is!

Saturday 3-5pm

Tasdance Studio 197 Wellington St

Free

Women Only

Contact: Alison Jales 0488 000 602 alisonjales@hotmail.co.uk

Supported by Tasdance

Event Type: Poetry Reading

Event Description: Open mic format, probably over a couple of brackets of readings. Come along and read your own work, or a poem you like that illustrates or suggests peace or associated themes.

Venue: Collins Bookshop (upstairs) 93 St John Street Launceston

Event Contact: Cameron Hindrum tpf_inc@yahoo.com.au


Opening hours of your venue: 9am - 3 pm

wheelchair access: Not for the room upstairs that we are using for this event.

Organisation: Brahma Kumaris Australia

Brahma Kumaris Australia is part of a worldwide organisation that is dedicated to helping people to bring into their daily lives their most positive energy and deepest personal values.  To do this, we teach Raja Yoga Meditation as a community service.

Internationally Brahma Kumaris is affiliated with the UN as a non-government organisation with consultative status.  It has been the recipient of seven Peace Messenger Awards from the UN.

Website: www.brahmakumaris.org.au

Event Type: Interactive class teaching the simple technique of Raja Yoga Meditation.

Event Description: Through Raja Yoga Meditation we learn to make our mind our best friend and harness its power.  This brings about newness in the way we think about ourselves and the world we live in.

Contact: Alice Hawrylak, Coordinator Brahma Kumaris Meditation Centre Hobart 03 6278 3788

Participation Cost: By donation

PLACE OF PEACE

Friday, July 28, 2017 12:00am-4pm

Saturday, July 29, 2017 12:00am-4pm

Sunday, July 30, 2017 2.00pm-5:00pm

City Baptist Church, 11 Frederick Street Launceston, TAS, 7250Australia 

Our church building will be open free of charge on afternoons throughout the Festival weekend - to sit in quietness, to learn about the history, to chat over a cuppa.

Contact: Jeff McKinnon jeff@citybaptistchurch.net

wheelchair access: Yes, please see the person on duty.

www.citybaptistchurch.net

Group /Organisation: BLITZTHEBLUES

Website: http://www.Blitztheblues.com

Venue: Parliamentary Gardens Lawn, in front of Parliament House. Hobart

Contact: Sue CARLYON  susannajcarlyon@bigpond.com

Wheelchair access: Yes

Organisation: Byakko Shinko Kai

Website: http://byakko.org

Event Type: This workshop is about writing mandalas of bright, positive words

Event Description: Our words are alive!
A Mandala is an ancient art form. By creating a mandala of bright words we radiate energy filled with harmony, love and gratitude. 
Today, it is adapted as a fun and creative art work through which adults and youth alike can generate vibrations of healing and positive affirmations of peace and gratitude towards fellow human beings, to nature and to God.

Venue: Meeting Room 1, LINC, Launceston

 Contact: Tom Teniswood

windsong@skymesh.com.au

wheelchair access: yes

Organisation: Interweave Arts

Website: http://interweavearts.com

Event Type: Creative arts project.

Event  Description: this creative arts workshop will have 4 different working stations to choose from. 
1. Timber archway construction. 
2. Yarn wrappings interwoven through archway. 
3. Mini sound instillation's to hang on archway, and to make a noise when people walk through it.
4. Peace poems/passages written on the back of origami paper, then made into a peace crane, to hang on archway.

The Peace Arch will be used as the gateway to 2017 ReMade at the Annex

Venue: The Studio, Queen Vic Museum, 2 Invermay Road.

 Contact: Justine Kelly

 Justine@interweavearts.com.au

Start Date: 7/29/2017

Start Time: 10:0:0 AM

End Time: 4:0:0 PM

wheelchair access: yes

Day 1 - Mindfulness Meditation

Saturday July 29th. 10am - 12, 2pm - 4pm

Cost $50 per day

Bookings Essential: email - office@kagyu.org.au PH: 03 6334 9680

Mindfulness in Tibetan is DEN SHI. or BAK YAOD.

DEN means remembering. SHI means knowing. BAK means vigilance. YOAD means to have. This practice is with your body, speech and mind. with being mindful you can sit, come, go and do things. But meditation is much deeper than this. Venerable Lama Samten will spend the day explaining the difference, interspersed with short mediation practice sessions together.

Please bring a plate of vegetarian food for a shared lunch.

Pedal for Peace

Is there a better way to feel relaxed and in harmony with your body, bike and your community than a gentle and steady ride around Launceston’s off road bike trails? Join us for a contemplation of how calm and beautiful life in Launceston can be, especially on a bike.

We will start at Park St Royal Park and include some time for contemplation at the Peace Garden opened in honour of former Governor Peter Underwood in 2016.

Everybody is welcome but it is not a learn to ride event. You don’t have to be an Olympic rider but you must be able to ride independently.

The ride will be organised by TBUG qualified ride leaders.

For further information contact Malcolm Reid on 0419107892 or malkanga@bigpond.net.au

http://www.tbug.org.au/content.php?page=T-Bug%20Home

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-02/migrant-students-learn-bike-skills/8217812

http://www.examiner.com.au/story/4428940/bike-classes-connect-the-community/

UTAS Student Engagement Leader team and Harvest Market

Event: Students will be given the opportunity to be transported to and form the Harvest Market., from the Newham Campus.

Description: Students will be given the opportunity to be transported to and form the Harvest Market., from the Newham Campus.

Venue: Utas Newham campus/Harvest MArket.

Contact: Emily Newman: unim8slst@gmail.com

We are calling out to Cycling groups in Launceston to be involved in this year’s Tamar Valley Peace Festival. Our idea was to encourage cycling groups to start at a given point that suits them, but to conclude at Harvest Market.

With this ride to take place between 8:30am and 12pm on Saturday the 29th of July 2017.

The intention was not to make more work for any one, but to open up conversations between organisations, promote leadership in peace and to suggest a common finishing location for cycling groups during the Festival weekend.

(Staff at Harvest Market are aware of our intentions to encourage groups to ride to Harvest Market on Saturday the 29th of July.)

One key area of the Festival is to engage community groups in demonstrating, on their own terms, what peace means to them – and the role that their organisation takes in teaching and promoting peace and goodwill.

Tasmanian Human Rights Act Campaign

Website: http://www.tashumanrightsact.org/

Event Type: Panel Discussion and Public Forum

Bookings: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/why-tasmania-needs-a-human-rights-act-tickets-34964502769 

Whilst it is a free event the booking system helps the event organiser keep track of numbers as there are limited seats - so please book your seat if you are coming.

Event Description: We hear a lot about freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom from discrimination. But, really, how well are the rights and freedoms of Tasmanians protected? And what about the right to an education, adequate housing and a clean environment? What happens if one person’s rights conflict with those of another’s? Why do some states have a Human Rights Act and others (like Tasmania) do not? 

Come and hear from a distinguished panel about why we need a Human Rights Act and how it can contribute to building the fair and prosperous future we want for all Tasmanians.

Panellists:
Robin Banks was Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner from 2010 to 2017. She has extensive experience working for the human rights of people with disability, young people, Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders, and people experiencing homelessness. 

Kristen Desmond is the mother of three children with disability. She is the former Chair of the national peak body Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA). She founded the Tasmanian Disability Education Reform Lobby and is a former Senior Vice President of Autism Tasmania. She is currently a member of the Tasmanian Education Inclusion Advisory Group – Disability Focus and was a former member of both the Tasmanian Ministerial Taskforce for Improved Support for Children with Disability and the Tasmanian Government’s Autism Advisory Panel. Kristen was named Launceston City Council’s 2016 Citizen of the Year and was a Tasmanian State Finalist in the 2014 Australian of the Year Awards. 

Rodney Croome AM is a long-time LGBTI human rights advocate in Tasmania, nationally and internationally. He is the former national director of Australian Marriage Equality. Rodney fronted the successful campaign in the 1990s to decriminalise homosexuality in Tasmania. He is the author of 'From This Day Forward: Marriage Equality in Australia' (Walleah Press). Rodney was named 2015 Tasmanian of the Year.

Rajan Venkataraman is a Member of the Board of Civil Liberties Australia. For twenty years, he worked with the Australian public service as a policy adviser on international relations and national security . He also served as an Australian diplomat and trade negotiator. Rajan volunteers as a tutor with 26TEN, Tasmania’s adult literacy and numeracy program.

Venue: Scotch Oakburn College, Horton Auditorium, 85 Penquite Road, Launceston

Contact: Rajan Venkataraman

 rajan@cla.asn.au

Start Date: 7/28/2017

Start Time: 5:30:0 PM

End Time: 7:0:0 PM

 wheelchair access: Yes

During the event representatives from the Human Rights Week Committee will be giving a short speech to promote the awards and encourage nominations.

There are nine categories recognising outstanding contributions by Tasmanians including School, Print Journalism, Individual, Youth, Organisation, Multicultural, Sport, Mental Health and LGBTI cultural awareness.

Some former award winners will be present and nomination forms and advice will be available. For example, these are the local 2016 winners of statewide awards

• A Fairer World School Award - Riverside Primary School
• Angus Downie Print Journalism Award- Doug Dingwall (The Examiner)
• Lucy Henry Human Rights Award for Mental Health focussed activity - Browns SUPA IGA, Longford
• Human Rights Individual Award - Joint Winners - Besta Poni Peter & Denise Delphin

Contact for "Call for nominations - Tasmanian Human Rights Awards 2017": Karin Le: karin.le@bigpond.net.au    0407 340 179

Organisation:  Human Rights Week Committee

Website: http://afairerworld.org/hrw/

Organisation:  Human Rights Week Committee

Website: http://afairerworld.org/hrw/

During the event "WHY TASMANIA NEEDS A HUMAN RIGHTS ACT"   (click on wording and event will open in a new page) representatives from the Human Rights Week Committee will be giving a short speech to promote the awards and encourage nominations.

There are nine categories recognising outstanding contributions by Tasmanians including School, Print Journalism, Individual, Youth, Organisation, Multicultural, Sport, Mental Health and LGBTI cultural awareness.

Some former award winners will be present and nomination forms and advice will be available. For example, these are the local 2016 winners of statewide awards

• A Fairer World School Award - Riverside Primary School
• Angus Downie Print Journalism Award- Doug Dingwall (The Examiner)
• Lucy Henry Human Rights Award for Mental Health focussed activity - Browns SUPA IGA, Longford
• Human Rights Individual Award - Joint Winners - Besta Poni Peter & Denise Delphin

Contact for "Call for nominations - Tasmanian Human Rights Awards 2017": Karin Le: karin.le@bigpond.net.au    0407 340 179

Tickets for the event hosting the call for nominations may be made here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/why-tasmania-needs-a-human-rights-act-tickets-34964502769

Why do you need to book tickets to hear more about a Call for nominations....Whilst it is a free event the booking system helps the event organiser keep track of numbers as there are limited seats - so please book your seat if you are coming to learn more about the 'Call for nominations - Tasmanian Human Rights Awards 2017" and/or also coming to hear the panelists speak....

WHY TASMANIA NEEDS A HUMAN RIGHTS ACT

Panel Discussion and Public Forum

Event Description: We hear a lot about freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom from discrimination. But, really, how well are the rights and freedoms of Tasmanians protected? And what about the right to an education, adequate housing and a clean environment? What happens if one person’s rights conflict with those of another’s? Why do some states have a Human Rights Act and others (like Tasmania) do not? 

Come and hear from a distinguished panel about why we need a Human Rights Act and how it can contribute to building the fair and prosperous future we want for all Tasmanians.

Panellists:
Robin Banks was Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner from 2010 to 2017. She has extensive experience working for the human rights of people with disability, young people, Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders, and people experiencing homelessness. 

Kristen Desmond is the mother of three children with disability. She is the former Chair of the national peak body Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA). She founded the Tasmanian Disability Education Reform Lobby and is a former Senior Vice President of Autism Tasmania. She is currently a member of the Tasmanian Education Inclusion Advisory Group – Disability Focus and was a former member of both the Tasmanian Ministerial Taskforce for Improved Support for Children with Disability and the Tasmanian Government’s Autism Advisory Panel. Kristen was named Launceston City Council’s 2016 Citizen of the Year and was a Tasmanian State Finalist in the 2014 Australian of the Year Awards. 

Rodney Croome AM is a long-time LGBTI human rights advocate in Tasmania, nationally and internationally. He is the former national director of Australian Marriage Equality. Rodney fronted the successful campaign in the 1990s to decriminalise homosexuality in Tasmania. He is the author of 'From This Day Forward: Marriage Equality in Australia' (Walleah Press). Rodney was named 2015 Tasmanian of the Year.

Rajan Venkataraman is a Member of the Board of Civil Liberties Australia. For twenty years, he worked with the Australian public service as a policy adviser on international relations and national security . He also served as an Australian diplomat and trade negotiator. Rajan volunteers as a tutor with 26TEN, Tasmania’s adult literacy and numeracy program.

Contact for WHY TASMANIA NEEDS A HUMAN RIGHTS ACT Panel Discussion and Public Forum : Rajan Venkataramanrajan@cla.asn.au

 wheelchair access: Yes