ERC-L Human Rights Education Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 10 (August 2000)

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ERC-L is a bi-weekly e-mail newsletter about new resources for human
rights education and training on the web site of Human Rights Education
Associates (HREA). The Electronic Resource Centre consists of a Human
Rights Education Library, a Calendar which lists courses and trainings
worldwide, a Human Rights Education Links section and Databases of Human
Rights Education Funders, Material Developers, Organisations, and
Trainers. If you have questions or feedback, please contact us at:
erc@hrea.org.


## FEATURE ##

Popular Education for Human Rights: 24 Participatory Exercises for
Facilitators and Teachers

This training manual does not over-burden participants with legal
terminology, but at the same time is clearly based on internationally
defined human rights standards. The 24 exercises are designed for
non-formal grass-roots education emphasising, among others: women's and
children's issues, and organised around specified values, e.g., respect
for dignity and fair rules, links between human rights and
responsibilities, building civil society, confronting prejudice, and
"information for empowerment", etc. The manual's highly participatory
methods can be adapted to diverse settings and cultures and, while
designed for popular education, nevertheless, have been successfully used
in programmes of formal education as well.

Popular Education for Human Rights: 24 Participatory Exercises for
Facilitators and Teachers by Richard Pierre Claude (Cambridge, MA: HREA,
2000). Language: English. Keywords: lesson plans, popular education, adult
education, teachers, human rights facilitators, moral values, Convention
on the Rights of the Child, Convention on the Elimination of All
Discrimination Against Women, Universal Declaration of Human Rights. URL:
http://erc.hrea.org/Library/community/Claude00.html


## HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION LIBRARY ##

New additions in weeks 1-15 August 2000:

* Code of Conduct of the Armed and Security Forces of Mali (Bamako:  
Ministère des Forces Armées et des Anciens Combattants, n.d.). Language:  
French. Keywords: manual, code of conduct, armed forces, security forces,
military, international humanitarian law, Mali. URL:  
http://erc.hrea.org/Library/armed_forces/mali.html


## Other publications added ##

* Our Book of Child Rights by Kathy Keirle Ali and Zulfiqar Ali (Karachi:
Human Rights Education Programme, 1996). Language: English. Keywords:
student manual, primary school level, children's rights, rights of the
child, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Pakistan. URL:
http://erc.hrea.org/Library/primary/hrep96.html


## HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION CALENDAR ##

New courses added:

* Refugee Law Clinics Regional Workshop II
Dates: 7-9 December 2000 (preliminary)
Level: professional
Focus: Aim of the workshop is to bring together State and
non-state actors in the legal aid field to discuss the current
challenges and needs in light of EU asylum harmonisation and
enlargement and to discuss the role of refugee law clinics in
national and regional legal aid structures.
Location: Budapest (Hungary)
Deadline of application: -
Organisation: UNHCR
URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Calendar/105.html

* Peace Education: Rising to the challenge of children's rights
Dates: 15-20 October 2000
Level: professional
Focus: This seminar will explore a variety of innovative approaches to
peace education in the UK and around the world. In the context of the start
of the Decade of the Culture of Peace, the participants will examine how
peace education can meet and promote the goals of the Convention on the
Rights of the Child and review the achievements of the CRC in the ten years
since its entry into international law.
Location: Guildford, Surrey (United Kingdom)
Deadline of application: -
Organisation: British Council
URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Calendar/107.html


## HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION LINKS ##

* Amnesty International-Slovenia (Slovenia) [in Slovenian]:
http://www.amnesty-international.si/
* Hong Kong Committee of Children's Rights [in English]:
http://www.childrenrights.org.hk
* The Findoc database (Finland) [in English and Swedish]:
http://trip.abo.fi/aadb/findoc/welcomee.htm


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