Welcome to AMPARO Advocacy Inc
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AMPARO Advocacy is a non-profit community organisation which provides independent individual and systemic advocacy on behalf of vulnerable people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds with disability. AMPARO is governed by a voluntary management committee, the majority of whom are people from a culturally and linguistically diverse background with disability. The organisation receives funding from the Department of Child Safety, Seniors and Disability Services.
AMPARO Advocacy’s vision is that people from a CALD background with disability are respected, valued, and included in family, community and the broader society, with equitable access to information, services and supports.
The Objects of AMPARO Advocacy Inc. (Constitution) are:
- To provide individual advocacy for vulnerable people from a CALD background who have a disability to defend, protect and promote their rights and interests so that their fundamental needs are met.
- To influence positive sustainable change to attitudes, policies, practices and resources within governments and communities.
- To develop links with others who can strengthen our advocacy efforts.
- To be an effective, accountable social advocacy organisation.
- To undertake activities that further the objects of the Association and social advocacy.
Independent advocacy is provided in a way that respects and meets the language, cultural and religious needs of the person and group and is guided by a strong commitment to the following principles of:
Human Rights: AMPARO Advocacy will defend, protect and promote the human rights and lives of people from a CALD background with disability.
Social Justice: AMPARO Advocacy will operate in ways that support the achievement of rights, equity, access, participation and equality in our advocacy and other work.
Inclusive Living: AMPARO Advocacy will operate in ways that value and support the inclusion of people with disability in the life of their diverse communities.
AMPARO Advocacy takes our mandate from the following important declarations, laws and principles which promote the rights of all people, as well as expectations for the lives of people from a culturally and linguistically diverse background with disability.
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2006
- Disability Services & Other Legislation Amendment Act (Qld) 2008
- Disability Services Act, (Qld) 2006
- Disability Discrimination Act, (Clth) 1992
- Anti-Discrimination Act, (Qld) 1991
- Racial Discrimination Act, (Clth) 1975
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons, 1975
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1966
- United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
- Child Safe Organisations Act (QLD), 2024
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Membership
AMPARO Advocacy members may benefit from opportunities to:
- Learn about social advocacy and the work of AMPARO Advocacy.
- Meet others who share AMPARO’s vision for a more inclusive community.
- Discuss government and community responses to people from CALD backgrounds with disability. Are they good enough?
- Voice your concerns and share your experiences to increase an understanding of the needs of people from CALD backgrounds with disability.
- Support systemic advocacy campaigns and strategies to improve the lives of all people from CALD backgrounds with disability.
- Nominate for positions on the management committee of AMPARO Advocacy.
- Attend AMPARO’s Annual General Meeting.
Ordinary membership is for people from a culturally and linguistically diverse background with disability.
Is open to all people who support the mission and objects of the Association and who apply for, and are accepted for membership, of the Association.
Is open to organisations who are allies of the Association. Organisational members do not have voting privileges.
Is offered, via nominations and election, to either ordinary or associate members.
Staff do not have voting privileges and are not eligible for management committee membership.
