The Human Rights Education and Youth Working Group today
   

The EMHRN has well established a working group on human rights education and Youth that is organised several Summer Schools for young human rights activists. The last Summer school produced a HRE resources book and established an informal alumni network.
The EMHRN wish to continue ongoing work and organising Bi-annual regional working group meetings aimed at:
  • Identifying eventual joint projects
  • Preparing the annual Summer School for young people engaged in human rights
  • Discussing, developing and exchanging educational methodologies
  • Launching of on-line HRE resources with members and partners NGOs
  • Supporting campaigns and initiatives of the civil society in the region 
  • Facilitating the development of alumni networks
The Summer School will be planned by the members of the EMHRN HRE WG. The planning necessitates exchange and debates on HRE methodologies between the participating organisations. Hence the Summer Schools and the WG meetings are testing grounds for networking and developing of educational methodologies while also targeting the development of a pole of trainers and lecturers for HR educational activities.

These will be made publicly available on the EMHRN’s Web site in the form of on-line resources.

In addition the EMHRN wishes to support networking between the members of the Alumni network by facilitating contacts and exchanges and occasional meetings.



What next?
 


The EMHRN wish to continue ongoing work by organizing two regional working group meetings per year, an annual Summer School for young people engaged in human rights, and the setting-up of an alumni network. Work in this sense has already been started by its working group on HRE.

The Summer School will be planned by the members of the EMHRN HRE WG group during bi-annual working group meetings that include leading NGOs engaged in HRE. The planning necessitates exchange and debates on HRE methodologies between the participating organizations. Hence the Summer Schools and the WG meetings are testing grounds for networking and developing of educational methodologies. These will be made publicly available on the EMHRN’s Web site in the form of Resources. In addition to attracting young people and making them visible, the public selection procedures, programme design and follow-up constitute a networking process in itself stimulating human rights work.

During the Summer School alumni networks will be created and followed-up by an annual meeting of the young people aimed at maintaining and strengthening contacts between these. The annual meeting agenda will focus on exchanging of experience between the young people and discussions of an overall theme that will be decided by a steering committee elected among the young people.