ERC-L Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 4



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		#        ERC-L   Volume 1, Issue # 4 (April 2000)	#
		#     A bi-monthly 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-monthly 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 ##

The Bells of Freedom: with Resource Materials for Facilitators of
Non-Formal Education and 24 Human Rights Echo Sessions (Ethiopia)

This handbook has the objective of promoting human rights awareness and
the training of human rights education facilitators.The first part
addresses 1)  international support for human rights education; 2) the
right to education; 3) the right to know our rights; 4) effective human
rights education; 5) goal-oriented non-formal education; 6) the values
framework of human rights education; 7) the use of educational exercises.
The second part of the handbook contains 24 exercises organised around the
themes:  respect for human dignity; learning rules; fairness; social
sensibility, community, law, using human rights, fighting prejudice,
seeking justice, equity and equality, good governance, remedying wrongs.

Action-Professionals' Association for the Peoples (APAP) is a Ethiopian
non-profit, non partisan and non-governmental membership organisation
established in January 1993. The objectives of APAP include vindication of
the legal rights of the poor, particularly those of women and children and
the dissemination of basic legal and human rights awareness of the public
at large.

The Bells of Freedom: with Resource Materials for Facilitators of
Non-Formal Education and 24 Human Rights Echo Sessions (Addis Abeba:
Action Professionals Association for the People, 1996). Languages:
English, French. Keywords: community education, training of trainers,
adult education, right to education. URL:  
http://erc.hrea.org/Library/community/bells.html


## HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION LIBRARY ##

New additions in weeks 16-30 April 2000:

* Critical Choices for Hungary: The Teachers' Guide by Ferenc Hammer,
(Budapest: Joint Eastern Europe Center for Democratic Education and
Governance, 1995). Language: English. Keywords: teacher manual, secondary
school level, high school level, civic education, citizenship education,
governance, Hungary. URL:  
http://erc.hrea.org/Library/teachers/critical-choices.html

* Teaching for Human Rights: Pre-school and Grades 1-4 by Ralph Pettman et
al (Canberra: Human Rights Commission, 1986). Language: English. Keywords:  
teacher manual, pre-school level, elementary school level, primary school
level, values education, tolerance, children's rights, rights of the
child, Australia. URL:
http://erc.hrea.org/Library/teachers/Teaching-HR-1-4.html


## Other publications added ##

* 'Feminist Approaches to Human Rights Education' in: Women’s Rights as
Human Rights: Local and Global Perspectives. Strategies and Analyses from
the ICCL Working Conference on Women’s Rights as Human Rights by Niamh
Reilly (ed.) (Dublin: ICCL Women's Committee, 1997). Language: English.  
Keywords: conference proceedings, strategies, gender issues, women's
rights, International Day Against Violence Against Women. URL:  
http://erc.hrea.org/Library/women/feminist-approaches.html

* Learning Activities for Use With Young People to Explore the Issue of
Discrimination (London: Amnesty International-International Secretariat,
1998). Language: English. Keywords: lesson activities, secondary school
level, middle school level, discrimination, Universal Declaration of Human
Rights. URL:  
http://erc.hrea.org/Library/secondary/discrimination-learning.html

* Violation of the Child's Human Rights by Marita Ishwaran (Bombay:
Justice and Peace Commission, 1999). Language: English. Keywords: lesson
activities, secondary school level, street children, child labour, girl
child, children's rights, rights of the child, India. URL:  
http://erc.hrea.org/Library/teachers/childrights-jpc.html


## HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION CALENDAR ##

New courses added:

* Intensive Course in Health and Human Rights
Dates: 26-28 June 2000
Level: professional
Description: This course is a 3-day intensive program of instruction 
designed to provide health and human rights professionals with the 
background and skill necessary to incorporate a human rights framework into 
their professional activities.
Location: Boston (USA)
Deadline of application: pre-registration 15 May 2000
Organisation: Harvard School of Public Health
URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Calendar/007.html

* XI curso internacional: Democracia y Derechos Humanos en el Contexto 
Económico Latinoamericano
Dates: 26-30 June 2000
Level: professional
Description: Los cambios económicos globales y sus implicancias en los 
regímenes democráticos, los procesos de reforma del Estado y reforma 
económica, y las perspectivas de la institucionalidad democrática para la 
vigencia de los derechos humanos serán los ejes temáticos del presente Curso.
Location: Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia)
Deadline of application: 12 May 2000
Organisation: Comisión Andina de Juristas
URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Calendar/008.html

* International Summer School on Forced Migration
Dates: 17 July-4 August 2000
Level: professional
Description: 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.
Location: Oxford (United Kingdom)
Deadline of application: 1 June 2000
Organisation: Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Calendar/074.html

* Course on Human Rights for international partners
Dates: 11-22 September 2000
Level: professional
Description: The primary objective of this course intended for partners of 
the Danish Centre for Human Rights is to give the participants information 
and skills which would benefit their daily work with human rights. The 
first part of the course introduces the participants to global and regional 
human rights instruments and institutions, including examples of domestic 
implementation. The second part of the course takes a thematic approach to 
human rights issues, such as discrimination and equal opportunities, the 
concept of fair trial, civil and political rights, etc.
Location: Copenhagen (Denmark)
Deadline of application: mid-June 2000
Organisation: Danish Centre for Human Rights
URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Calendar/055.html

* Human Rights Advocates Program
Dates: January-April 2001
Level: professional
Description: This programme is designed for experienced human rights 
workers from developing countries seeking to develop their advocacy skills; 
study international human rights; meet colleagues from other parts of the 
world; and become better acquainted with international human rights 
organisations.
Location: New York City (USA)
Deadline of application: 1 August 2000
Organisation: Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University
URL: http://erc.hrea.org/Calendar/071.html


## HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION LINKS ##

* Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (Bulgaria) [in English]: 
http://www.bghelsinki.org/
* Human Rights Correspondence School (Hong Kong) [in English]: 
http://www.hrschool.org
* Heritiers de la Justice (Democratic Republic of Congo) [in French]: 
http://members.tripod.com/~heritiersjus/
* Johannes Wier Stichting (the Netherlands) [in Dutch and English]: 
http://www.johannes-wier.nl
* WomenWatch: UN Internet Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of 
Women [in English]: http://www.un.org/womenwatch


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