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Lest We Forget: Children have Human Rights Too : Annual Human Rights Lecture 2021
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Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson AM delivered a livestreamed presentation from Bundjalong Country titled, "Lest We Forget: Children have Human Rights Too".
“We forget, children have human rights too. In working with communities where children exhibit behaviour that is the language of unhealed trauma, we have witnessed an unskilled and overwhelmed workforce across all service systems. This workforce has little capacity to respond to the specific needs of such children and their families. Truth-telling will have little consequence in the lives of such children, unless we speak to all that is the truth in their lives, and across their families and community systems, to work to heal the specific symptoms of a history that continues be denied. Children are also our teachers. This presentation will demonstrate how children, denied their child rights to live in safe homes and communities, are still compassionate teachers, when we listen and learn together.”
The inaugural Human Rights Lecture was delivered by Professor Gillian Triggs, Former President of the Australian Human Rights Commission in 2016, by Dr Waleed Aly, media commentator and academic in 2017, the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG in 2018, Behrouz Boochani delivered the lecture from Manus Island in 2019, and Dean Adrien K. Wing presented the lecture from the United States in 2020.
This lecture was hosted by Curtin University for the Annual Human Rights Lecture on 9 September 2021.
“We forget, children have human rights too. In working with communities where children exhibit behaviour that is the language of unhealed trauma, we have witnessed an unskilled and overwhelmed workforce across all service systems. This workforce has little capacity to respond to the specific needs of such children and their families. Truth-telling will have little consequence in the lives of such children, unless we speak to all that is the truth in their lives, and across their families and community systems, to work to heal the specific symptoms of a history that continues be denied. Children are also our teachers. This presentation will demonstrate how children, denied their child rights to live in safe homes and communities, are still compassionate teachers, when we listen and learn together.”
The inaugural Human Rights Lecture was delivered by Professor Gillian Triggs, Former President of the Australian Human Rights Commission in 2016, by Dr Waleed Aly, media commentator and academic in 2017, the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG in 2018, Behrouz Boochani delivered the lecture from Manus Island in 2019, and Dean Adrien K. Wing presented the lecture from the United States in 2020.
This lecture was hosted by Curtin University for the Annual Human Rights Lecture on 9 September 2021.