Dear Members, As you may know, the UN Commission on Human Rights passed a resolution in its most recent session calling for a World Programme for Human Rights Education. (Resolution 2004/71, 21 April 2004 can be found in the archives of the Global HRE listserv at http://www.hrea.org/lists/hr-education/markup/msg01511.html) This resolution calls for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and UNESCO to prepare a Plan of Action for the first phase of the World Programme, which will take place from 2005-2007, and which should focus on primary and secondary schools. This structured plan should define realistic actions to be undertaken by all actors, including governments and non-governmental organisations. The Plan of Action, which will include benchmarks, is intended to complement the more general Decade for Human Rights Education, which concludes at the end of this year. >From June 14th until July 18th we will organise an on-line Global Consultation to provide input for this Plan of Action. The on-line Global Consultation will be co-organised by HREA and the Asian Regional Resource Center for Human Rights Education (ARRC), Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (IIDH), Moscow School for Human Rights and l'Union Interafricaine des Droits de l'Homme (UIDH). It will provide an opportunity for you -- members of the NGO community and others -- to give input to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and UNESCO as they elaborate the Plan of Action for the UN General Assembly. We hope that you will take this opportunity to share your point of view. With partner listservs operating in all regions, this is a unique and historic moment for gathering input from individuals and groups across the world! The on-line Global Consultation will begin on Monday, June 14th and will take place simultaneously on the Global HRE List and the regional HRE listservs in Arabic, English, French, Russian and Spanish. The topics for discussion are as follows: June 14-20: Strategies for introducing HRE into primary and secondary school at the national level June 21-27: Resources and tools necessary to support actors involved in introducing HRE into schools June 28-July 4: National benchmarks that can be used for measuring and evaluating performance and progress in each of these areas July 5-11: Mechanisms for coordinating the introduction of HRE in schools at the national, regional and international levels The fifth week will be used to synthesize the discussion. Every Monday we will send out a "facilitation" message with questions regarding that week's topic. At the end of the week, the week's discussion will be summarised; this will be posted to the listserv in a "summary" message. These summaries will be the basis for a report to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and UNESCO. We warmly invite you to participate in this on-line Global Consultation on the World Programme for HRE and very much look forward to hearing your ideas! We also encourage you to forward this invitation to colleagues that are not (yet) a member of the listserv. Best regards, the Moderators, HREA Asian Regional Resource Center for Human Rights Education (ARRC) Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (IIDH) Union Interafricaine des Droits de l'Homme (UIDH) ======== North American Human Rights Education listserv ======== Send mail intended for the list to <hr-education-na@hrea.org>. Archives of the list can be found at: http://www.hrea.org/lists/hr-education-na/markup/maillist.php If you have problems (un)subscribing, contact <owner-hr-education-na@hrea.org>. **You are welcome to reprint, copy, archive, quote or re-post this item, but please retain the original and listserv source.
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