Each Christmas since the early 1990s, The Body Shop Australia has supported Amnesty International Australia, selling Christmas cards and gift tags in its stores with 100% of all proceeds donated back to the human rights organisation.
The Body Shop is proud to partner with Amnesty International again and introduces the 2022 Christmas gift tag, featuring design by Indigenous artist Ryhia Dank, titled ‘All The Little Things’. Tags are available for $2 (in-store only) or 3 tags for $5. All proceeds from the gift tags will be donated to Amnesty International Australia, which is working to protect the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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This year, funds will again be going towards Amnesty’s work to raise the age of criminal responsibility, and will help support equality, justice and freedom for Indigenous children, with a focus on kids at risk of being trapped in the youth justice system.
Across Australia, children as young as 10 are locked up. From 2020 - 2021, 600 children between 10 and 13 were thrown in prison. 65% of them are Aboriginal and or Torres Strait Islander children. Raising the age of criminal responsibility is an important step to reducing the over-representation of Indigenous children in the Australian prison system. Together we can make this happen. Add your name to Amnesty’s petition and call on all governments across Australia to raise the age kids can be locked up to at least 14 years old.
Ryhia Dank is a contemporary Aboriginal artist who grew up in a remote community in the Northern Territory, and now lives in modern Australia. Her paintings are storywork. Gudanji/Wakaja people stories through pattern and design – Ryhia calls her storying ‘nardurna’.
Ryhia’s artwork, titled ‘All The Little Things’, is about young people finding their only path in life, while being supported with love and strength and surrounded by nature. The bush plums represent resilience, medicine leaves for health, waterholes and rivers for life and movement, trees for their growth, coolamons and digging sticks for the tools that we need in our everyday life, and rocks to represent strength and the ability to transform. Ryhia’s artwork can be found on Instagram @nardurna and https://nardurna.com/.
