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Human Rights Week 2022: Rights in action

To recognise this year’s Human Rights Week (2–9 December 2022) and its theme Rights in action, we invite you to take the pledge and take part in daily actions to challenge your knowledge of human rights and implement this knowledge in a practical way.

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This year’s Human Rights Week is from 2–9 December 2022.

Human Rights Day – the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) – is on 10 December.

Building on last year’s theme to make rights real, this year’s theme is Rights in action.

We are asking Victorians to:

  • consider human rights in their interactions in everyday life
  • have conversations about human rights
  • put their knowledge into practice
  • help build a society where rights are valued and respected.

About the week

Each day, participants will receive a daily action (and some additional actions) to set off a series of activities that all Victorians can join.

During the week, pledgers will take part in these daily actions to challenge their knowledge of human rights and implement this knowledge in a practical way.

We hope these actions will lead to conversations about rights and empower Victorians to advocate for themselves and others beyond #HRWVic2022.

This year’s week of action will be delivered in partnership with:

Commissioner for LGBTIQ+ Communities

Commission for Children and Young People

Mental Health Complaints Commissioner

Victorian Disability Worker Commission

Victorian Multicultural Commission

Event calendar

Friday 2 December: Victorian Disability Worker Commission

Monday 5 December: Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission

Tuesday 6 December: Commission for Children and Young People

Wednesday 7 December: Mental Health Complaints Commissioner

Thursday 8 December: Commissioner for LGTBIQ+ Communities

Friday 9 December:  Victorian Multicultural Commission

Read more about the week on our Human Rights Week webpage.

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