AMPARO Advocacy defends, protects and promotes the rights and interests of vulnerable people from a culturally and linguistically diverse background with disability.

The Objects of AMPARO Advocacy are:

• To provide individual advocacy for vulnerable people from a from a culturally and linguistically diverse background with 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 furthers the objects of the Association and social advocacy.

AMPARO Advocacy’s vision is that people from a culturally and linguistically diverse background with disability are accepted as part of Australian society, with access to information and all services and benefits, so that they can be included, and participate and contribute in family and community life.

AMPARO Advocacy believes that people from a culturally and linguistically diverse background with disability have the same right to live valued lives that are comparable to those of other members of society where they:

• are respected and valued
• can experience valued relationships with friends, family and community
• have access to interpreters and information in their preferred language
• have supports and services provided in a culturally sensitive and responsive ways
• have natural authority to influence the direction of their own lives, or where they have limited capacity, that their family if possible retains this authority
• are welcomed and have opportunities to live an ordinary life
• are participating and contributing members in the social, economic and political life of broader Australian society

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

The objects of AMPARO Advocacy are:

1. To provide individual advocacy for vulnerable people from a culturally and linguistically diverse background with disability to defend, protect and promote their rights and interests to that their fundamental needs are met.
2. To influence positive sustainable change to attitudes, policies, practices and resources within governments and communities.
3. To develop links with others who can strengthen our advocacy efforts.
4. To be an effective, accountable social advocacy organisation.
5. To undertake activities that furthers the objects of the Association and social advocacy.

We believe that people from a culturally and linguistically diverse background with disability have a rightful place in community where they:

• can experience valued relationships with friends and family
• have access to interpreters and information in their preferred language
• have supports and services provided in culturally sensitive and responsive ways
• have their gifts and strengths recognised
• have natural authority to influence the direction of their own lives, or where they have limited capacity, that their family retains this authority
• are welcomed and have opportunities to live an ordinary life
• are participating and contributing members in the social, economic and political life of broader Australian society.