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Young people around Australia are being urged to nominate themselves or someone else for the 2011 Young People's Human Rights Medal.
Nominations are now open for an individual who was, on the 6 June 2011, under the age of 25 years and has made an outstanding contribution to advancing human rights in Australia.
Winner of the 2010 Young People's Human Rights Medal, Jack Manning Bancroft, CEO of the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), said he felt honoured and privileged to receive the medal in 2010.
"It was a great credit to all the work that all our members and all of our kids have been doing to step up over the last few years," Mr Manning Bancroft said.
"The Award did a lot to raise the profile of the work that we do at AIME and also to raise the profile of how important it was to try and see more Indigenous kids get through school."
Nominations close on Friday 9 September for judging, with winners to be presented with their awards at a ceremony on Friday, 9 December 2011 at a new ceremony venue at the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth, in Phillip Street Sydney.
For nomination forms and to order your tickets go to http://www.humanrights.gov.au/hr_awards/index.html.