YOUTH from around the district will explore human rights issues as a part of
Multicultural Arts Victoria’s (MAV) ‘Rights at the Round Table’ forum when it
comes to Swan Hill for the first time later this month.
It is the first time
the program will travel to a centre outside of Melbourne, with it now coming to
Swan Hill to engage young people in regional areas and get them talking about
human rights issues relevant to young people in regional and metropolitan
Victoria.
Over the last four years young people from diverse backgrounds and
cultures have taken part in the forum, with the participants from Melbourne’s
2010 event producing a bill of rights and sending it to the Prime Minister Julia
Gillard.
MAV artistic program manager Anita Larkin said by bringing the forum
to Swan Hill it made it more accessible to the wider community.
“It’s about
providing access to something like this [to regional areas], kids in the city
have lots of opportunities, so it gives [young people outside the city] a chance
to access these opportunities,” she said.
For more of this story, see Wednesday’s Guardian (June 12).
