Diary Dates, UN observances -- updated regularly

For your organisation's events to be included in the Unity Supplement, please email brief details to: judycnnn@yahoo.com.au by WEDNESDAY for the best chance of swift inclusion.

It would help a great deal if items could be submitted in the usual UNity Supplement format.

Accessible Events a Guide for Organisers, developed by Meeting Events Australia (MEA) and the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, helps organisers to make their events more accessible to the millions of Australians with a disability. Accessible Events a Guide for Organisers is available through the MEA website at www.meetingsevents.com.au and www.humanrights.gov.au/disability_rights/index.html

HREOC events calendar

The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) has a calendar of upcoming human rights related events and occasions. This is a brief and easy to use guide of what's happening in the world of human rights, gender equality, racial or disability discrimination, equal opportunities in the workplace, racism in sport, age discrimination, human rights education, anti-discrimination laws, etc. It will be kept as up-to-date and accurate as possible. Check out the calendar at http://www.humanrights.gov.au/events/

The calendar relies on information from the human rights community, so if you have an appropriate listing, email details to paffairs@humanrights.gov.au or by calling (02) 9284 9618. HREOC reserves the right to select and edit submissions as seen fit.

DIARY DATES
Dates: Please send details to: ian.mathews7@bigpond.com.au

AUGUST
AUGUST 25/30  IPPNW WORLD CONGRESS  (International Physicians Against Nuclear Weapons), Basel, Switzerland. Accommodation and registration DETAILS:  www.ippnw2010.org/
AUGUST 27/28 Australia Timor-Leste Friendship Network workshop:
Consolidation of friendship principles, action planning, improving our co-ordination  and communication. DETAILS: Australia Timor-Leste Friendship Network  (AusTimorFN) via raemerlynperrry@gmail.com; SA Friendship groups: austimorfn.sa@gmail.com; Mark Rohde, editor AETFA eNEWS, PO Box 240, Goodwood SA  5034; aetfa.sa@gmail.com; www.aetfa.org.au; SKYPE: aetfa.sa

SEPTEMBER
September 1 Human Rights Commissioner Gooda – delivering the Keynote Address at the Closing Ceremony of the 63rd Annual UN Conference of Non-Government Organisations associated with the Department of Public Information, in Melbourne.
September 5 Festival of Refugees!Box Hill Town Hall, 1022 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill
3pm - 5.30pm. Performances from Burma, Sudan, Congo, Vietnam, West Papua, Sri Lanka, and more!
Featuring award-winning singer Kavisha Mazzella and Muslim author Hanifa Deen
with performances followed by a Middle Eastern and West African Dinner
Aboriginal Elder Reg Blow will welcome the refugees to the festival and acknowledge the traditional owners of this land. Tickets and Enquiries: Glenys or Visier: 9650 6811 or vcc@vcc.org.au
$10 Admission.
September  15 An evening with former South African Constitutional Court judge, Albie Sachs in conversation with Bob Debus. 5.30pm-7.30pm Freehills, MLC Centre, 19 Martin Place, Sydney
Bob Debus will launch The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law by Albie Sachs
More details and to register go to http://www.ahrcentre.org/ahrcevents.html
Inquiries: Amber Rowe, Coordinator, Australian Human Rights Centre, Room 330, Faculty of Law Building, University of New South Wales
UNSW Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
SEPTEMBER 21 UN International Day of Peace UNAA (NSW) will support the Ministry for Peace
Australia (MFPA) in celebration of the UN Peace Vigil.

OCTOBER
OCTOBER 5 World Habitat Day
OCTOBER 5 World Teachers' Day
OCTOBER 14 International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
OCTOBER 15 International Rural Womens Day
OCTOBER 16 World Food Day
OCTOBER17 International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
OCTOBER 17-19 Anti-Poverty Week
OCTOBER 17 Queensland Multicultural Festival: cultural diversity through food, art, craft, music, dance and traditional activities, from 10am until 5pm at Roma Street Parkland, Brisbane. Performers, artists, food and craft stallholders and community groups representing Queensland ’s many cultural groups sought. DETAILS: http://www.multicultural.qld.gov.au/be-involved/events/queensland-multicultural-festival/. APPLICATIONS: By July 2: Bronwyn Moore, Communication Services, Department of Communities, Level 12, 111 George St, Brisbane on 07 3227 7219; www.towardQ2.qld.gov.au
OCTOBER 22 (10.30 am – 11.30 am) Annual Cenotaph Ceremony honouring Australia’s contribution to UN Peacekeeping: Guest of Honour, Mick Palmer AO APM, former AFP  Commissioner. The
ceremony marks 60th anniversary of the commencement of the Korean War.
OCTOBER 22 (12.30 pm – 2.30 pm) Annual UN Day Luncheon, NSW Parliament House. Keynote speaker Michael Kirby AM CMG; also attending UNAA National President Professor Robert Hill.
OCTOBER 24 For UNITED NATIONS DAY
The UNAA NSW will support Rotary District 9750 plenary session on the UN within its District Conference, Campbelltown.

NOVEMBER
NOVEMBER 4/6 International Human Rights Education Conference Educating for Human Rights,
Peace and Intercultural Dialogue has been organised in response to the UN World Program for Human Rights Education to advance the human rights education, in particular in Australia and Asia Pacific region. World class speakers.  DETAILS: Dr Sev Ozdowski, Conference Convenor, University of Western Sydney; on  +61 2 9678 7375; mob +61 413 474 744; sevozdo@gmail.com; s.ozdowski@uws.edu.au;  http://www.ozdowski.com/biography.html www.humanrightseducationconference2010.com.au;  PAPERS: by July 9.
AusAID International Seminar Support Scheme at: http://www.ausaid.gov.au/business/other_opps/isss.cfm 
NOVEMBER 9/11 4th Desert Knowledge Symposium and Business Showcase, at Alice Springs Convention Centre.
SYMPOSIUM WEBSITE: www.desertknowledgesymposium.com
NOVEMBER 25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

DECEMBER
DECEMBER 1 World AIDS Day
DECEMBER 10 Universal Human Rights Day