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Wheeler Centre Free Event

Only Human: 70 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

In 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, setting out a standard of basic rights and freedoms for all human beings worldwide.

Seventy years on, a panel of experts will discuss some of Australia’s human rights failings – the over representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in prisons and offshore detention for asylum seekers, in regards to progress towards improved human rights.

Monday 26 November 2018, 6.15pm-7.15pm at The Wheeler Centre

Book tickets by clicking this link: The Wheeler Centre

176 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Presented in partnership with the Human Rights Law Centre.

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State Library of Victoria

Centre for Youth Literature: Inky Awards winners 2018

Voted by Australian teens across Australia.

Gold Inky Award winner

Paper cranes don’t fly is the debut title from Peter Vu.

Peter was six years old when he was diagnosed with a brainstem glioma. It was after the life-changing experience of his last surgery in Year 10 that he was led to write Paper cranes don’t fly. He is currently a student, living in Melbourne with his parents and three siblings, and has ambitions of one day becoming a full-time writer.

Silver Inky Award winner

The hate u give is the debut title from US author Angie Thomas.

Angie was born, raised, and still lives in Jackson, Mississippi. A former teen rapper, she recently won a Walter Dean Myers Grant, awarded by the We Need Diverse Books campaign. The hate u give is inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, and is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl's struggle for justice. It is now a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox due for release in Australia on 1 January 2019.

Mrs Patricia Bernardo

Library Manager

2018 Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge Coordinator