Invitation
to Submit Good Practices in Human Rights Education in the School System
The Office of
the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in
cooperation with the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of
the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (ODIHR/OSCE), the
Council of Europe and UNESCO, is developing a compendium of good practices
in the area of human rights education in the primary and secondary school
systems. In this regard, we are calling for submissions from all countries
in the OSCE region.
We are looking for practices undertaken by various actors (governments,
national human rights institutions, NGOs, teacher training institutions
etc.) which may include:
- the development of national policies, including legislation, plans of
action, curricula, training policies and so on promoting a rights-based
approach to education, as well as the adoption of measures to ensure
consistent policy implementation;
- activities aiming at creating learning environments which respect and
promote the human rights of all school actors;
- teaching and learning processes and tools which reflect human rights
values, including the development of participatory teaching methodologies,
as well as materials and textbooks;
- programmes aiming at the education and professional development of
school personnel to enable them to transmit and model human rights values.
Submissions should be sent by 1 December 2007. For the
submission form and more information on this project please refer to the
website of Human Rights Education Associates (HREA), which is assisting us
on the preparation of the compendium, at the address: http://www.hrea.org/compendium/