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The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) is glad to invite you to apply for participation to the “Euromed 2008 Summer School” organized in Turkey by the EMHRN Working Group on Human Rights Education & Youth with the cooperation Community Volunteers- TOG and Bilgi University in Turkey. The main topic of the summer school will be the promotion of Human rights in conflict situation and difficult political and social context. It will offer young people committed to Human rights a space for exchange and dialogue while building their capacities and competences with tools and methodologies around human rights learning. The courses will be directed to support the implementation of Human rights education activities. Application form
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. Minutes from HRE and Youth Working Group Meeting Turkey, Ankara, 27-28 October 2007 Documents Summer School Report. Tips for future Summer Schools Summary of evaluation results, lessons learned and recommendations

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	+202 795 1112
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	+3562132902821
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	Salima Tayebi	+213 48 56 88 53