Human Rights Education

Esteemed Colleagues:

“The promotion and protection of human rights is a basic prerequisite for the existence of a democratic society…” (Inter-American Democratic Charter). Human rights education is closely linked to education for democracy, citizenship and peace, among other similar fields.
In our hemisphere, and in the world, a great commitment has been formalized to promote human rights education, and we wish to applaud the important progress achieved. However, there is still a long road ahead to achieve formal and non-formal human rights education for all members of society, which promotes and protects human rights in our countries and in the world. This edition of the bulletin offers some resources to support this fundamental commitment.

Best regards,

Lenore Yaffee García
Director, Department of Education and Culture
Organization of American States

Inter-American Meeting of Ministers: Human Rights Education, May- June, 2007. (Spanish only)
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• World Program for Human Rights Education

• Handbook on National Human Rights Plans of Action

• Inter-American report on Human Rights Education (Spanish only)

• Inter-American Proposal of Human Rights Education for Children

• Page for Children about Their Rights (Spanish Only)

• Mexico: National Human Rights Education (Spanish Only)

• Facing History and Ourselves

• ABC: Practical Activities for Primary and Secondary Schools

• Curriculum Guides and Tools for Activists, among others, Amnesty International

• Pedagogical Research Center, Inter-American Institute of Human Rights

• Resource Center for Human Rights Education

• Other Resources

• VII International Human Rights Colloquium “Strengthening Human Rights in the South”, 3- 10 November, 2007, São Paulo, Brazil

• Other Events

South Africa wins UNESCO Prize in Human Rights Education 2006
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• Page of the University of Pretoria Centre for Human Rights

European Compass: Guide for Human Rights Youth Education
• Web page (Spanish only)
• See Manual (English and French)

• Human Rights Education in Asian Schools

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 (art. 26)

• American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man

• American Convention on Human Rights

• Protocol of San Salvador (OEA)

• Inter-American Democratic Charter (OEA)

• The legal framework is extensive. For more information go to:
http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/index.htm

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“Human rights education contributes to the discovery of unknown worlds, like the suffering of others and indignation in the face of injustice (…) it is a bet for the future, with the end that later, neither justice nor liberty be claimed by gangs or invoked violently in the streets.” (Roberto Cuellar, Executive Director, Inter-American Institute of Human Rights. Taken from “Educación en Derechos Humanos: La Apuesta por el Futuro de la Democracia” Boletín Informativo IIDH, March – June, 2007).

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