David WakehamThen you see #auspol patting themselves on the back for being a primary signatory on the #UNDHR.
Have y’all even read the thing?
Maybe revise articles 23 - 25 for starters…
Ken SLast day of Trans Awareness Week (in Australia),
Three most vulnerable sectors for trans persons are Health/Medicine, Sports and Schools:
On health:
https://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2019/release/healthcare-failing-transgender-people2
Overview in Australia:
https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/challenging-five-years-of-transphobia
Aust. Politics, reversing a wrong:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-08/transgender-students-teachers-excluded-from-school-protections/100812354
#HumanRights #UNDHR #LBGTI+ #AusPol #Health #Education
The purpose of anti-discrimination legislation is to prevent harm and abuse of individuals, groups and the development of toxic communities. Recognition that universal human rights serves to protect everyone, not just a particular group.
To affirm that harm and abuse is not justifiable.
So it’s extremely disappointing when politicians take advantage of misconceptions within religious and/or feminist to justify the harm and abuse of another minority group.
Living in an internationalised modern community,
Politics needs to remember that injustices rationalised in Australia can often be used in the rationalisation of abuse against Christian and feminist groups in foreign countries.
International day of Tolerance:
A culture of peace and non-violence.
Trans Awareness Week
Videos to watch:
https://www.hrc.org/resources/trans-awareness-week
Particularly of interest is 'Sports Equality', considering the extremely biased media and political commentary on the issue of 'trans people in community and professional sports' that Australia had experienced the last 3 years.
#HumanRights #UNDHR #LGBTQI + #AntiDiscrimination #Dignity #Sports #Feminism
Honor Trans Awareness Week and Transgender Day of Remembrance with HRC
Trans Awareness Week is a time for the LGBTQ+ community to honor, celebrate, and uplift the trans community. With anti-trans rhetoric and legislation at all-time highs, now more than ever, we need to listen to the trans community about their experiences.
Trans Awareness Week
Read more starting here:
https://tdor.org.au/
Prejudice and discrimination affects everyone everywhere.
Regardless of a person's actual gender or sexuality, people have been victim to abuse, bullying and discrimination based on prejudiced beliefs about gender and sexuality.
An end of transphobia is a step towards a safer world for everyone, just as ending discrimination based on age, race, ethnicity, religion, etc will make the world safer.
Universal human rights matters.
#HumanRights #UNDHR #LGBTQI + #AntiDiscrimination #Dignity
On this Remembrance day we remember the war said to be 'the war that will end war'.
But how much do we actually 'remember' through school, media and history books?
Australian school history doesn't touch on Australia's role in the fall of Japan's first liberal democratic movement; end of the British-Japanese Alliance; and the rise of ultranationalism post-World War 1. Japanese-Australia War History in Australia tends to be highly biased towards focus on World War 2. Even then, there's little to no mention of Nikkei-Australian soldiers outside of academia: https://newvoices.org.au/volume-10/the-experiences-of-nikkei-australian-soldiers-during-world-war-ii/
In contrast to US academia, which has spent a lot more time reconciling their Nikkei-American history. Including:
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/08/11/742293305/a-century-later-the-treaty-of-versailles-and-its-rejection-of-racial-equality
#RememberanceDay #LestWeForget #TreatyofVersailles #InternationalRelations #UNDHR #AusPol #PMRobertHughes #Racism #WW1 #WW2
Dave LevyI was looking at the #UNDHR, I wanted to study the legal gold standard in democracy.
See https://www.humanrights.com/course/lesson/articles-19-25/read-article-21.html
It requires the right to take part in the government of one's country, the right of equal access to public service in his country and that the will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; & expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage
