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Human Rights Education Summer School
23 - 29 July 2007

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Resources Book

Resources for Human Rights Education and Youth in the Euro-Mediterranean region

As human rights education has grown in popularity over the last years and a greater number of human rights NGOs in the Arab and Euro-Med region are involved in human rights education; there is an increasing need to go beyond the formal and traditional ways of education and find new and engaging means of disseminating the message of human rights;. With this in mind the HRE WG will publish Resources for Human Rights Education and Youth in the Euro-Mediterranean region. The purpose of this publication is to provide resources on HRE methodologies in non-formal education with youth in Euromed region.
This publication is intended for what can be broadly described as “human rights educators”: trainers and coordinators who are responsible for developing and implementing education and training programmes in their organisation.
The aim is to present interesting methodologies for programme coordinators and trainers who want to build on or improve existing activities or programmes with youth or who want to start a new type of programme.


Dina NEGAD (Egypt) Andalus Institute for Tolerance Email	Bassem MOURSY (Egypt) Egyptian Association for Community Participation Enhancement Email	Mohammed BADARNI (Palestine) Arab Association for Human Rights Email	Moussa BOUREFIS (Algeria) SOS Disparus Email

Jehad SHEJAEYA (Palestine) Centre for Democratic Participation and Human Rights Email	Nota PELEKANOU (Cyprus) Essex University Email	Ghofran HILAL (Jordan) Amman Center for Human Rights Studies. Email	Morano Giovanna PIGNATTI (Italy). Association Cazalla-Intercultural/ Association Euroaccion Email

Oncel POLILI (Cyprus) Turkish/Cypriot Human Rights Foundation Email	Doufesh BELAL (Cyprus) KISA - Action for Support, Equality and Antiracism Email	Elisha BASKIN (Israel) Amnesty International Email	Stamatios VLACHOS (Greece) Doctors without Borders (MSF) Email

Tamer YASSA (Egypt) Jesuits' and brothers' Association for Development Email	Ali GHINA (Lebanon) Palestinian Center for Human Rights Email	Peter DRAL (Slovakia) Milan Simecka Foundation Email	Wassim ABBAS (Palestine) Physicians for Human Rights Email

Rabie ABULATIFAH (Palestine) Al Haq Email	Balssam NAJJAR (Palestine) Organisation for Young Arabic Email	Souad BELABCIR (Morocco) Association des Femmes du Maroc Email	Rachid LOUHABI (Morocco) Association Troisiéme Millénaire pour le Développement et la Protection de l'Enfance Email

Besma HAMMAMI (Tunisia) Tunisian Association for Democratic Women Email	Souad EDDOUADA (Morocco) Iben Tofail Gender Studies Center Email	Erdogan AYFER (Turkey) Youth Initiatives Association Email	Mosab ABBAS (Palestine) Grouping of Civil Associations for the Protection of the Palestinian Rights Email

Rania TOLLEFSON (Cyprus) Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies Email	Lina KHADER (Jordan) Sisterhood is Global Institute Email	Ali SEHAM (Egypt) Associative Center for Women Issues Email	Nahed NASSR (Egypt) South Center for Human Rights Email
Tahira Hinah SHEIK (Denmark) Save the children Email

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SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAM

In many countries, the human rights movement is confronted with a challenge, which is to recruit a new generation of young volunteers who are conscious of their responsibilities and involve them in the defense of human rights.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) is a network of 84 human rights organizations, institutions and individuals based in 30 countries in the Euro-Mediterranean region, which has been established in 1997 in response to the Barcelona Declaration. The EMHRN promotes networking, cooperation and development of partnerships between human rights NGOs, activists and wider civil society in the Euro-Mediterranean region.

The “2007 Summer School” will be held in Limassol, Cyprus from the 23rd to the 29th of July 2007. It is a key project for the EMHRN funded by DANIDA with leading NGOs working in the field of Human Rights Education. The focus will be on methodologies, so as to facilitate human rights learning in youth related environments in the formal and informal sectors. The participants will be those who work with youth on a regular basis – though not necessarily in human rights learning. The added value will be in bringing together those who are within and those who are not within the Human Rights community in the Euromed region.

Designed as training for trainers, the Summer School aims at promoting the dissemination of Human Rights culture and human rights values through active education activities addressing young people in the Euromed region. It seeks to empower those who work with youth with the tools and the ideas behind human rights learning on a number of levels.

The last overall aim of the Summer School is to provide an opportunity to build a sustainable network in the field of Human Rights Education in the Euromed.

Objectives of the Summer School

The summer school aims at:

Creating and building a better understanding of Human Rights Education among participants in an engaging and empowering manner.
Providing resources and materials for use by participants during and after the Summer School with a focus on the Euromed region and its human rights mechanisms.
Exploring human rights education methodologies and tools to be developed and delivered at a regional and local level within the Euromed region.
Facilitating the development of personal action plans.

It also intends to:

Support capacity building in human rights education on organizational and personal levels and to foster greater understanding and delivery of human rights education activities organizationally, personally and within the Network as a whole.
Share ideas and methodologies used in human rights education for the purposes of promoting and delivering human rights values and human rights education approaches in the Euromed region.
Explore ways of co-operation within the field of human right education in the Euromed region, following the outcomes of the Summer School.

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