ERC-L Human Rights Education Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 13 (October 2000)

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              #        ERC-L   Volume 1, Issue # 13 (October 2000) #
              #     A bi-weekly newsletter with updates from the     #
              # Electronic Resource Centre for Human Rights Education #
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              #                 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 at:
erc@hrea.org.


## FEATURE ##

Self-Help Human Rights Education Handbook

This handbook is designed to enable experienced and prospective human
rights educators (teachers and administrators, as well as informal
educators such as NGO leaders) become their own resources, and in
particular to a) to set clear educational goals for human rights programs,
b) to improve their capacity to plan and evaluate programs, and c) to make
the most of the resources available as well as to create their own when
necessary or possible.

Self-Help Human Rights Education Handbook by J. Paul Martin (New York:  
Center for the Study of Human Rights/Columbia University, 1996). Language:  
English. Keywords: strategies, organisational development, evaluation, HRE
programming. URL:
http://erc.hrea.org/Library/curriculum_methodology/self-help.html


## HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION LIBRARY ##

New additions in weeks 15-30 September 2000:

* First Steps: A Manual for Starting Human Rights Education (Amnesty
International: London, 1997). Languages: Russian, Albanian, English,
Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian. Keywords: teacher manual, secondary school
level, lesson plans, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Convention on
the Rights of the Child, Central and Eastern Europe. URL:  
http://erc.hrea.org/Library/teachers/first-steps.html


## Other publications added ##

* Handbook on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by Allan McChesney
(Washington, DC: AAAS and HURIDOCS, 2000). Language: English. Keywords:  
handbook, socio-economic rights, cultural rights, International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, United Nations Committee on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. URL:
http://erc.hrea.org/Library/reference/ecosoc_handbook.html

* The ODIHR Election Observation Handbook (Warsaw: OSCE, 1999, fourth
edition). Language: English. Keywords: handbook, monitoring, elections,
human rights monitors, code of conduct, voter education, civic education,
right of political participation, OSCE. URL:
http://erc.hrea.org/Library/monitoring/odihr99.html

* Raising Children with Roots, Rights and Responsibilities: Celebrating
the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child by Lori DuPont, Joanne Foley,
and Annette Gagliardi (Minnesota: Human Rights Resource Center/University
of Minnesota, 1999). Language: English. Keywords: URL: teacher guide,
teachers, curriculum, pre-school and elementary school level, lesson
plans, right to education, Convention on the Rights of the Child, United
States. URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Library/teachers/crc99.html


## HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION CALENDAR ##

New courses added:

* The Civilian Personnel of Peace-Keeping/Humanitarian Operations and Election
Monitoring Missions Training Course
Dates: 2-21 July 2001
Level: professional
Focus: The aim of the course is to train a limited number of participants 
for the tasks usually assigned to the civilian component of 
peace-keeping/humanitarian operations and election monitoring missions.
Location: Pisa (Italy)
Deadline of application: 9 April 2001
Organisation: International Training Programme for Conflict Management/Scuola
Superiore Sant'Anna
URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Calendar/157.html

* International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance
Dates: 4 February-3 March 2001
Level: post-graduate
Focus: One month, intensive, interactive residential course (200 hours of 
lectures, exercises and tests, both individual and in syndicates) for 
humanitarian field workers.
Location: Geneva (Switzerland)
Deadline of application: --
Organisation: Center for International Health and Cooperation
URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Calendar/155.html

* Short Course on Health and Human Rights
Date: 12 November 2000
Level: professional
Focus: one-day introductory course for health professionals about basic 
human rights concepts and links to health. Participants will also apply 
human rights concepts to case studies in the following areas: HIV/AIDS and 
vulnerability; complex humanitarian emergency & relief; poverty and 
deprivation.
Location: Boston (USA)
Deadline of application: --
Organisation: François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Calendar/158.html

* Summer Course on Refugee Issues
Dates: 16-24 June 2001
Level: postgraduate
Focus: annual training in refugee issues for up to fifty practitioners 
inside and outside government who work on some aspect of refugee protection 
or assistance.
Location: Toronto (Canada)
Deadline of application: 31 March 2001
Organisation: Centre for Refugee Studies/York University
URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Calendar/114.html


## HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION LINKS ##

* Asian Partnership on International Migration (APIM) (Malaysia) [in English]:
http://apim.apdip.net/
* Centre for Citizenship Studies in Education (United Kingdom) [in 
English]: http://www.le.ac.uk/se/centres/citizenship/index.html


## RETRIEVE DOCUMENTS VIA E-MAIL ##

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e-mail. Send a message to the following e-mail address: getweb@hrea.org.
Leave the SUBJECT field BLANK, and copy the URL (Internet address) into
the BODY of the message. For example, if you would like to retrieve the
Human Rights Education Calendar for November 2000, you need to send a
message to: getweb@hrea.org, leave the subject line empty and copy the URL
of the November Calendar into the message, like this:

http://erc.hrea.org/Calendar/november2000.html

You will then receive the Web page via e-mail. For assistance or
additional information about the GetWeb service, please contact:
getweb-admin@hrea.org.


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