***************************************************************** * ERC-L Volume 7, Issue # 5 (May 2007) * * A monthly newsletter with updates from the * * Electronic Resource Centre for Human Rights Education * * Published by HREA * * http://www.hrea.org/erc/ * ***************************************************************** ERC-L is a monthly e-mail newsletter about new resources for human rights education and training on the web site of HREA. HREA's Resource Centre consists of: a Library; a Forums section with various discussion lists related to human rights and human rights education; a Human Rights Links section; and a Databases section. If you have questions or feedback, please contact us at: < >. ## FEATURE ## Global Directory of Human Rights Educators The aim of the Global Directory of Human Rights Educators is to provide a resource for individuals, communities and organisations that are looking for assistance with their activities or want to exchange information. Through the directory one can identify trainers or curriculum developers, explore potential partnerships, or share your interest in certain thematic areas. Currently over 900 educators from over 120 countries have registered in the directory. In order to protect the privacy of those listed the directory is password protected and will only be accessible to those who have registered. You can register and access the directory at: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Databases/educators.php ## LIBRARY: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library ## New documents added: * An Inventory of Human Rights Teaching Materials (Winnipeg, MB: Instructional Resources Unit/Manitoba Education, Training and Youth, 2001). Language(s): English. Keywords: audio-visual materials, bibliography, teachers, formal education, primary school, secondary school, human rights education, Canada. URL: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display.php?doc_id=4020&category_id=1&category_type=3 * Companion: A campaign guide about education and learning for change in Diversity, Human Rights and Participation by Ellie Keen (ed.) (Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2007). Language(s): English. Keywords: guide, anti-racist education, citizenship education, education for democratic citizenship, tolerance education, advocacy, non-discrimination, political participation, European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), European Social Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Council of Europe. URL: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display.php?doc_id=4007&category_id=41&category_type=3 * European Handbook of Human Rights Education in Technical Education and Vocational Training (Flensburg: University of Flensburg, 2005). Language(s): English, German, Italian, Spanish. Keywords: handbook, lesson activities, teacher manual, teachers, vocational education, human rights education, European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom. URL: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display.php?doc_id=4021&category_id=18&category_type=3 * Human Rights and Service-Learning: Lesson Plans and Projects by Kristine Belisle and Elizabeth Sullivan (New York and Cambridge, MA: Amnesty International-USA and HREA, 2007). Language(s): English. Keywords: lesson plan(s), manual, community leaders, teachers, formal education, higher education, informal education, secondary school, social studies, discrimination, environment, extreme poverty, human rights education, juvenile justice, non-discrimination, right to health. URL: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display.php?doc_id=4022&category_id=18&category_type=3 * Human Rights Syllabi for the College Classroom (Berkeley: University of California and Amnesty International-USA, 2006). Language(s): English. Keywords: syllabus, higher education, USA. URL: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display.php?doc_id=259&category_id=7&category_type=3 * Transformative Arts and Human Rights Education Guide (Dili: Ba Futuru, 2006). Language(s): English, Tetum. Keywords: lesson plan(s), teacher manual, health professionals, psychologists, social workers, teachers, formal education, informal education, art education, conflict resolution, physical education, children's rights, human rights education, rights of the child, Timor Leste. URL: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display.php?doc_id=4024&category_id=17&category_type=3 ## CALENDAR: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar ## New courses added: * Armed Conflict, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Date: 17 September-16 December 2007 Level: (under)graduate, professional Focus: This distance learning course offers an introduction to the law or armed conflict, or international humanitarian law, as it is known. It critically examines the role of law in armed conflict and demonstrates how law can guide the conduct of hostilities, mitigate the consequences of the use of armed force, and protect civilians in both international and non-international armed conflicts. It puts the law of armed conflict in a political context, traces recent developments in this particular area of law, discusses the role of international criminal law, the convergence between human rights and humanitarian law, gender and law, and the protection of vulnerable groups such as children. Location: Internet (e-learning) Deadline of application: 1 July 2007 Organisation: HREA URL: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar/display.php?doc_id=3838&month=9&year=2007 * Building capacity for rights: democracy and development in Africa Date: 10-20 September 2007 Level: professional Focus: This course, intended for people concerned with social change in Africa, aims to build capacity for advancing rights within development and activist organizations. It will assist researchers, advocates, trainers and programme officers from civil society and state institutions to develop practical approaches to using rights advocacy and development programmes. Location: Johannesburg (South Africa) Deadline of application: 6 July 2007 Organisation: Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS)/University of the Witwatersrand, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) URL: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar/display.php?doc_id=4078&month=9&year=2007 * Communicating labour rights - a training course for media professionals Date: 10-14 September 2007 Level: professional Focus: The course is designed for journalists and publicists who are in a position to demonstrate the relevance of international labour standards and to promote their use. This includes correspondents, freelance reporters, editors and publishers who cover labour and social affairs in all media, including the Internet, at national, regional or international level, public relations professionals and press officers of employers', workers', governmental and non-governmental organisations. Location: Turin (Italy) Deadline of application: - Organisation: International Training Centre/International Labour Organization URL: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar/display.php?doc_id=4014&month=9&year=2007 * Genocide and Human Rights University Program Date: 30 July-10 August 2007 Level: (under)graduate Focus: This 2-week course will feature world-renowned genocide scholars and provide a structured forum for analysing the universal questions related to genocide. Location: Toronto (Canada) Deadline of application: 31 May 2007 Organisation: International Institute for Genocide & Human Rights Studies URL: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar/display.php?doc_id=4010&month=7&year=2007 * Human Rights Education and Youth Participation in the Euromed Region Date: 23-29 July 2007 Level: (post-)graduate, professional Focus: The 2007 Summer School of EMHRN will focus on methodologies, so as to facilitate human rights learning in youth related environments in the formal and informal sectors. Location: Limassol (Cyprus) Deadline of application: 11 June 2007 Organisation: Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) URL: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar/display.php?doc_id=4011&month=7&year=2007 * International labour standards for judges, lawyers and legal educators Date: 3-14 September 2007 Level: professional Focus: The main objective of the course is to equip law professionals to implement international labour standards (ILS) at the national level. At the end of the activity, participants will be able to: master the machinery and content of the ILS system; use the tools and documents that allow an in-depth understanding of ILS; use or teach ways of incorporating international labour law into national case law; identify and use the added value of ILS in key areas such as freedom of association or non-discrimination. Location: Turin (Italy) Deadline of application: - Organisation: International Training Centre/International Labour Organization URL: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar/display.php?doc_id=4012&month=9&year=2007 * Mediating History, Making Peace: advanced workshop in conflict resolution Date: 29 June-1 July 2007 Level: graduate, professional Focus: This two-day training seminar will equip you with skills necessary to mediate and reconcile conflicts rooted in history effectively in formal or informal context. Location: Boston (USA) Deadline of application: - Organisation: International Center for Conciliation (ICfC) URL: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar/display.php?doc_id=4019&month=6&year=2007 * Monitoring Children's Rights Date: 20 February-27 May 2008 Level: professional Focus: This distance learning course is a basic introduction to measuring and monitoring the status of children, including basic health and welfare, education, civil rights and freedoms, and special protection measures. The course will address the full cycle of monitoring, including tool development; methodologies for carrying out monitoring (both organisationally as well as through the involvement of children); and the application of results for improving the promotion and protection of children's human rights. Location: Internet (e-learning) Deadline of application: 1 July 2007 Organisation: HREA URL: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar/display.php?doc_id=4000&month=2&year=2008 * Medicine and Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspective Date: 6-17 August 2007 Level: (post-)graduate, professional Focus: This two-week summer course offers participants a multi-disciplinary perspective on a variety of issues in the field of medicine and human rights. We will discuss experiences of human rights abuses in different cultures, and "the righteousness of medical care" in situations of conflict and reconciliation, asylum and extradition. Location: Leiden (The Netherlands) Deadline of application: 15 June 2007 Organisation: Amsterdam Master's in Medical Anthropology (AMMA), Amnesty International Dutch section (AI), Section Medical Anthropology of the Department of Public health and Primary/Leiden University Medical Center URL: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar/display.php?doc_id=4009&month=8&year=2007 * Project Development and Management including from a Gender Perspective Date: 9 July-31 August 2007 Level: professional Focus: The program is designed to equip participants with skills for better management of community based development programmes. This course will further provide the participants with a concrete "step-by-step" approach including hints and guidelines for developing and implementing a successful project from a gender based perspective in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Location: Internet (e-learning) Deadline of application: - Organisation: Global Human Rights Leadership Training Institute URL: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar/display.php?doc_id=4017&month=7&year=2007 * Train the Trainer course in Health and Human Rights Date: 13-17 August 2007 Level: graduate: Focus: The aim of the course is to: enable participants to understand the conceptual framework for human rights, its relationship to health, the historical context and national and international human rights debates relating health and human rights; promote understanding of professional and ethical codes to support human rights; explore the past and future roles of institutions in the health sector with regard to human rights; recognise the importance of self-study, reflection on the past to plan for the future; explore strategies for curriculum change, including multidisiplinary teaching, identifying clinical settings in which human rights abuses take place, and exploring the relationship between ethics and human rights. Location: Cape Town (South Africa) Deadline of application: - Organisation: School of Public Health and Family Medicine/University of Cape Town URL: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar/display.php?doc_id=4008&month=8&year=2007 ## LINKS: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Links ## The Human Rights Links section of the Resource Centre has been revised and expanded. It is now possible to navigate the links by both region and topic. Links to organisations and resources relating to the following human rights issues/themes were added recently: Bosnia-Herzegovina http://www.hrea.org/erc/Links/list.php?category_type=2&category_id=763 Brazil http://www.hrea.org/erc/Links/list.php?category_type=2&category_id=381 Cambodia http://www.hrea.org/erc/Links/list.php?category_type=2&category_id=109 Germany http://www.hrea.org/erc/Links/list.php?category_type=2&category_id=133 Mongolia http://www.hrea.org/erc/Links/list.php?category_type=2&category_id=74 Namibia http://www.hrea.org/erc/Links/list.php?category_type=2&category_id=95 Ukraine http://www.hrea.org/erc/Links/list.php?category_type=2&category_id=759 **************************************************************************** The Electronic Resource Centre for Human Rights Education (http://www.hrea.org/erc/ ) is maintained by HREA. 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