Objectives of the Working Group on Human Rights Education (HRE) & Youth
 

The Working Group on Human Rights Education & Youth works to promote and strengthen Human Rights in the Euro-Mediterranean region through educational practice and theory. It seeks to build networking, partnership and cooperation amongst members engaged in Human Rights and Human Rights Education work in the region. It works to develop, disseminate and evaluate HRE information, values, methodologies and experiences.

Activities and Meetings


The Human Rights Education Working Group has been working since the establishment of the EMHRN on various projects, in particular the Beirut Summer School organised in 2003, a HRE background policy paper and Biladi: a photo pack on Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
 
In 2006, Funds have been secured  to revitalise the working group through a new project on HRE & Youth. The project aims at promoting youth participation and strengthening NGO networking in the field of HRE. The activities of the project are: a research report mapping human rights education activities and methodologies in the region, working group meetings with EMHRN members, a Human Rights Summer School for young people and establishing an alumni network of summer school participants.
 
The working group will be in charge of preparing the research and organising the Summer School, and the WG meetings will also provide a forum for discussing educational methodologies, sharing experiences and networking on HRE issues.

HRE and Youth Working group meeting, Turkey, Ankara, 27-28 October 2007

During the meeting in Ankara, the HRE and youth WG members discussed the challenges to face within the EMHRN which are to further structure cooperation with the other WGs, to evaluate and enhance the capacities of the EMHRN and the quality of the undertaken researches and activities and also consider the importance of monitoring the work of the EU in relation to the declaration of Barcelona and the European neighbourhood policy in relation to Human rights Education. 
 

Documents

 
 







WG Members
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80:20 Educating and Acting for a Better World

Valerie Duffy

            +353 1 286 0487       

Amman Centre for Human Rights Studies

Omar Qadora

            +962 7 95 424 703       

Arab Institute for Human Rights - Tunis

Maya Ben Khaled

            +216 71 767 003     

Democratic Association of Moroccan Women

Amina Lemrini

            +212 37 73 71 65       

Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies

Zahra Radwan

            +202 27 95 11 12     

Danish Institute for Human Rights

Mu'ayyad Mehyar

            +45 35 69 88 26       

Greek Helsinki Monitor

Antonia Papadopoulou

            +30 210 347 22 59       

MEDAC

Omar Grech

            +356 23403182       

Public Committee Against Torture

Louis Frankenthaler

            +972 2 642 9825       

Sisterhood is Global Institute

Lubna Dawany

            +962 64 65 95 75       

Algerian League for Human Rights

  
Baya Gacemi

            +213 21547894       
             +213 61562916       

For more info, contact the WG Coordinator, Nour Hemici