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# ERC-L Volume 1, Issue # 11 (September 2000) #
# A bi-weekly newsletter with updates from the #
# Electronic Resource Centre for Human Rights Education #
# Maintained by HREA #
# http://erc.hrea.org #
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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:
erc@hrea.org.
## FEATURE ##
An Annotated Primer for Selecting Democratic and Human Rights Education
Teaching Materials
This primer contains samples from ten exemplary human rights education
materials. The specific model lessons were chosen so as to represent
diversity for teaching method (e.g., discussion, role play, drawing,
project work) and topic (e.g., rights and responsibilities, tolerance,
conflict resolution). The texts as a collection address primary, secondary
and postsecondary levels. Some resources were designed as full-year
curriculums, others as activities that could be used in a variety of
educational environments and subject areas. The resources come from
different countries in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as from North
America and Western Europe. The authors are based in governmental
organisations, national non-governmental organisations, universities,
international non-governmental organisations, inter-governmental agencies.
An Annotated Primer for Selecting Democratic and Human Rights Education
Teaching Materials by Felisa Tibbitts (Budapest: Open Society Institute,
1997). Languages: English, Russian. Keywords: curriculum development,
lesson plans, primary school level, secondary school, methodology,
teaching materials, democracy, Central and Eastern Europe. URL:
http://erc.hrea.org/Library/curriculum_methodology/primer97.html
## HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION LIBRARY ##
New additions in weeks 16-31 August 2000:
* Select Filmography on Human Rights by Richard Pierre Claude and Burns H.
Weston, eds., (Philadelphia: Philadelphia University Press, 1992).
Language: English. Keywords: annotated bibliography, human rights films.
URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Library/bibliographies/claude-weston92.html
## Other publications added ##
* Educating about Human Rights (Geneva: Association mondial pour l'Ecole
Instrument de Paix, 1988). Language: French. Keywords: teachers, lesson
activities, popular education, peace education, cultural rights,
Convention on the Rights of the Child, Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, Switzerland. URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Library/teachers/eip98.html
* Human Rights Related Legal Reforms (Hong Kong: Asian Human Rights
Commission/Human Rights Correspondence School, n.d.). Language: English.
Keywords: lessons, lawyers, judges, prosecutors, law enforcement
personnel, judiciary, rule of law, right to a fair trial, due process, Sri
Lanka, India. URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Library/judiciary/ahrc00.html
* Illustrated version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(Amnesty International-USA). Language: Spanish. Keywords: lesson activity,
primary school level, Universal Declaration of Human Rights. URL:
http://erc.hrea.org/Library/primary/pollo.html
* Organisational Management Training Kit (Strasbourg: Council of Europe,
2000). Language: English. Keywords: training guide, training of trainers,
youth, organisational management, NGOs, youth organisations, Council of
Europe. URL:
http://erc.hrea.org/Library/organisational_development/coe00.html
## HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION CALENDAR ##
New courses added:
* Challenges for International Humanitarian Law (Finland)
Date: 20-24 November 2000
Level: graduate, professional
Description: This one-week intensive course is meant to provide insights
into new developments of and challenges for international humanitarian law.
Location: Åbo (Finland)
Deadline of application: 15 September 2000.
Organisation: Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University
URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Calendar/152.html
* Forum on Human Rights Education
Dates: 7-12 November 2000
Level: professional
Focus: From 2000 to 2003 the Council of Europe's Directorate of Youth and
Sports will be implementing a three years programme on human rights
education addressed to young people from 47 European countries and beyond.
The Forum will contribute to identify potential partners, to review the
agenda of the programme, to identify existing resources and to provide
closer insights into specific issues, programmes and approaches.
Location: Budapest (Hungary)
Deadline of application: 20 September 2000
Organisation: Council of Europe / Directorate of Youth and Sports, European
Youth Centre Budapest
URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Calendar/118.html
* International Labour Standards, Productivity Improvement and Enterprise
Development
Date: 25 September-6 October 2000
Level: professional
Focus: This interregional course examines the positive linkages and
mutually supportive relations between good labour practices as set out in
International Labour Standards, on the one hand, and entrepreneurship and
enterprise development based on productivity growth, on the other.
Location: Turin (Italy)
Deadline of application: --
Organisation: International Training Centre of the International Labour
Organization (ILO)
URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Calendar/119.html
* International Summer School in Forced Migration
Dates: 2-20 July 2001
Level: professional
Focus: The Refugee Studies Centre's International Summer School aims to
provide participants with a deeper and broader understanding of the forces
and institutions that generate, maintain, and influence responses to
displaced people. Participants will examine: different views of the nature
of forced migration; the historical context of forced migration and its
location within broader regional and global processes; the multifaceted
realities faced by forced migrants; and the character of current responses
to displacement.
Location: Oxford (United Kingdom)
Deadline of application: 1 May 2001
Organisation: Refugee Studies's Centre at Oxford University
URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Calendar/111.html
* Promotion of Women Workers' Rights
Dates: 23 October-3 November 2000
Level: professional
Focus: The course addresses International Labour Standards and action
necessary to implement them, with particular emphasis on their effect on
women workers. By the end of the course participants will have analysed
training modules designed to promote women workers’ rights with the aim of
adapting them to their national situation, acquired basic pedagogical
techniques and designed training/information activities to be run at the
national level. Working language is Arabic.
Location: Turin (Italy)
Deadline of application: --
Organisation: International Training Centre of the International Labour
Organization (ILO)
URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Calendar/120.html
## HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION LINKS ##
* Law and Society Trust (Sri Lanka) [in English]:
http://www.lawandsocietytrust.org/
* Scottish Human Rights Trust (United Kingdom) [in English]:
http://www.scotrights.org/
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