This program will focus on enabling Human Right Defenders (HRDs) advocating for Indigenous people’s rights in Asia Pacific countries to engage with the diplomats of countries that have policies on human rights defenders and the rights of Indigenous people.

This program, launched in ongoing solidarity with those working for human rights, peace and democracy in Myanmar, is intended to be a practical contribution to their work at this time of human rights and humanitarian crisis in Myanmar. It is targeted at Myanmar diaspora advocates and their partners working in solidarity in ASEAN countries.

This annual, comprehensive human rights and advocacy course is the longest established human rights training program held in the region. It builds knowledge of international human rights standards and the UN system and skills in strategic advocacy. The program will build practical links between advocates in the region.

A 2-day intensive training program to build knowledge and understanding of the CRC, the Australian reporting process to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (the Committee), with a focus on implementation of the Committee’s Concluding Observations (Recommendations) and Australia’s next report.

This new program will build the capacity of community advocates and human rights defenders in the Pacific and Asia to engage effectively with a key UN human rights accountability mechanism – the UN Human Rights Special Procedures (SPs).