Human Rights Education A Manual for National Human Rights Institutions
KEY POINTS: CHAPTER 4
In order for human rights education to contribute to the realization of human
rights, it must:
• be relevant to the participants
• involve partnerships and collaboration with appropriate individuals and
groups
• recognize that the participants are important contributors to the education
activity and that the human rights educator is also a “learner”
• deepen and strengthen the knowledge and experience of participants
• combine action with reflection by building in processes of review and
evaluation
• focus on individual and societal empowerment and transformation.
USEFUL RESOURCES
Building Human Rights Communities: The experience of three indigenous
peoples in the Philippines. Commissions on human rights of New Zealand
and the Philippines (2011). Available online at https://nhri.ohchr.org/EN/
Themes/IndigenousPeoples/DocumentsPage/HRC_Building_Human_Rights_
Communities-%20PHIL-NZ%20joint%20project.pdf
Facilitation Manual: A guide to using participatory methods for Human
Rights Education (2014). Available online at www.amnesty.org/en/documents/
act35/020/2011/en/ and online at https://issuu.com/aihumanrightseducation/
docs/facilitation-manual
Maranga Mai! Human Rights Community Development. Dr Jill Chrisp in the
Australian New Community Quarterly (Vol. 9, No. 1); Autumn 2011
SPC Regional Rights Resources Team (2019), Sustaining campaign coalitions.
Available online at https://rrrt.spc.int/resources/videos/sustaining-campaigncoalitions
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