In this issue we have updates on recent DTP programs, news from alumni in the region and profile DTP trainer Chris Sidoti. We also celebrate the new DTP website going live.

15 participants came together from across Australia for an intensive training program on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in Melbourne.

DTP brought together participants to facilitate the exchange of views among Asian CSOs and human rights advocates on how best to use capacity building & training to support and build human rights and democracy movements in the region.

This is the 20th webinar in the series aimed at developing greater knowledge and understanding of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

Diplomacy Training Program in partnership with La Trobe Asia, Jubilee Australia Research Centre, Monash Gender Peace and Security Centre and Centre for Policy Alternative (CPA), co-hosted a webinar to discuss Sri Lanka's ongoing unprecedented humanitarian and human rights crisis.

Chris is one of Australia’s most experienced human rights advocates and practitioners. He has contributed to human rights in Australia and internationally over many decades, through national human rights institutions, NGOs and United Nations human rights mechanisms. He was a member of the UN Human Rights Council’s Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar from 2017 to 2019 and is currently a commissioner on the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestine Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.

The summary program report from DTP's 2021 AAI Human Rights Leadership to Influence Policy, Indonesia program is now available.

An online program to assist experienced Indonesian human rights advocates in their work to promote and defend human rights in Indonesia. The program was delivered by the Diplomacy Training Program in partnership with the Australian Human Rights Institute, and the Institute for Global Development at UNSW.