Victoria's Human Rights Charter - Advocacy Guides
Your advocacy guide: Victorians with a disability
The guide is designed to help people with disabilities and the organisations that work with them to advocate for their human rights. This guide is designed to help identify when the Charter might be able to help and how to get further help.
Your advocacy guide: Victorians who live with mental illness
This guide is designed to help people experiencing mental illness and the organisations that with with them to advocate for their human rights. This guide is designed to help identify when the Charter might be able to help protect the human rights of people with mental illness and how to get further help.
Your advocacy guide: Victims and survivors of crime in Victoria
This guide is designed to help victim/survivors of crime in Victoria and the organisations that work alongside them to advocate for their human rights. The guide is intended to help identify when the Human Rights Charter might be used to protect the human rights of victim/survivors of crime and explain how to get further advice and assistance.
Your advocacy guide: Protesters' rights
The guide is designed for lawyers, advocates and organisations who work with protesters or organise protests or other public gatherings. Through your work, people may contact you about human rights issues affecting them. We want to help you to identify when the Charter might be able to help protect people’s human rights and how to get further help.
Your advocacy guide: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' rights
The guide is designed to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Victoria and the organisations that work alongside them to advocate for their human rights. The guide is focused on particular human rights under the Charter that are relevant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Victoria.
Your advocacy guide: Victorians who are homeless or at risk of homelessness
The guide is designed to help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness and the organisations that work with them to advocate for their human rights. This guide is designed to help identify when the Charter might be able to help protect the human rights of people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and how to get further help.
Your advocacy guide: Rights of people in prison
This guide is designed to help people in prison and the organisations that work with them to advocate for their human rights. This guide is designed to help identify when the Charter might be able to help and how to get further help.
Your advocacy guide: Criminal justice
This guide is designed to help Victorians who are investigated, charged or convicted of crimes and the organisations that work with them to advocate for their human rights. This guide is designed to help identify when the Charter might be able to help and how to get further help.