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Human Rights Week

International Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December. On this day in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Every year in December we recognise and celebrate this day through a week of events, connection, and advocacy. Through these events we highlight human rights issues as they apply to the everyday lives of Victorians. We invite all Victorians to engage in activities and start and continue conversations about human rights.

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Human Rights Week 2026

This year Human Rights Week will run from 3-10 December.

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Previous events

2023 - A week of action for human rights

We partnered with Victorian's independent commissions to deliver a week of daily tasks and other activities to test and challenge Victoria's knowledge and understanding of human rights as it applies to everyday citizens.

2022: Rights in action

We partnered with several Commissions to encourage Victorians to take part in a week of daily actions to challenge their knowledge of human rights and implement this knowledge in a practical way.

2021: Make rights real

We encouraged Victorians to participate in a week of action to make rights real – with daily tasks on topics from ableism and ageism to LGBTIQ+ and young people’s rights.

2020: Rights in recovery

Victorians reflected on the lessons from the year that was, and explore how a human rights led recovery could help us create a more equal, sustainable and resilient future.

Oration: Speakers from 2001 - now

We invite leading thinkers in human rights – writers, academics, policy-makers, lawyers – to reflect on the state of human rights in Australia and what lies ahead.

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The Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission acknowledges that we work on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We also work remotely and serve communities on the lands of other Traditional Custodians.

We pay our respects to their Elders past and present.

The Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission recognises the injustice resulting from the colonial invasion and occupation of First Peoples’ territories and the Yoorrook Justice Commission’s findings of genocide, crimes against humanity and denial of freedoms.