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The Challenge of HRE & Youth
 

In keeping with the underlying values and approaches of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (and the main international human rights treaties), human rights education can be defined as encompassing a diverse range of education and information activities designed to build a universal culture of human rights aimed at:

  • strengthening respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms;
  • promoting the full development of the human personality and the fundamental value of human  dignity;
  • promoting understanding, tolerance, gender equality and friendship amongst all nations, indigenous peoples and racial, national, ethnic, religious and linguistic groups;
  • enabling all persons to increasingly participate effectively in society;
  • promoting all dimensions of human rights including social and economic rights alongside civil and political rights;
  • furthering the agenda of activities outlined by the United Nations in its Action Plan for the Decade for Human Rights Education.

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HRE & Youth Working Group
 
Human Rights Education aims to protect the inherent dignity of the human person and to develop understanding, tolerance and respect for others. If these are some of the aims of human rights, then the role of education in protecting these rights, and identifying those responsibilities, must be to teach about the world in which we live and the people with whom we share that world.
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HRE & Youth Themes
 
In our view, human rights education must take into account four key dimensions - all of which need to be addressed in order to achieve desired ends. Each of these dimensions is of equal importance and one  should not be prioritised above another. In such a context, education for human rights is the active process by which people, through personal experience and shared knowledge.
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HRE & Youth Resources
 
The resources aims at providing publications, methodologies and case studies, reports, articles, guidelines and handbooks related to the realm of HRE and links to other organizations and resources.
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