[hr-education] Re: Needs in the HRE field

Dear members,

1.  What kind of activities can be developed? Well, all kinds. In schools
HRE could be incorporated not only in civics, but also in several other
subjects, such as history, geography, languages - basically all
humanities. I am not a technical person but I can easily imagine HRE in
environmental science, biology, anthropology.... We are now trying to
expand into the out-of-school area because the school environment is
always a bit stressful (evaluation, marking, school reports, authoritarian
teachers, supervising parents with their own ideas about their children's
rights...).  In their leisure activities children are more relaxed, and
will be willing and ready to be involved in human rights activities. They
need to know how.

2.  Which target groups and training needs? Every single target group
mentioned needs attention. The problem remains who is to do the work?  
Therefore training trainers I suggest should be given priority attention.  
So that we have someone who is able to educate others (children and adults
alike). Otherwise we shall be going around in circles.

3.  There is a general trend to take over developed materials and simply
translate them into the "native" language. More often than not they are
not suitable for the given environment. So I suggest original materials
should be supported in every way, possibly with outside advice. I have
just received a batch of such materials from Kuleana, Tanzania. Most
impressive! The trouble with original materials is that they require
funding and somehow the authorities always tend to prefer the translations
of "proven" materials. They have already been tried and proven which
allows the authorities to shed responsibility.

4.  Funding is absolutely vital and if international organizations and
governments helped the NGO's who take the brunt of HRE work it would be
just fine. As it is we are burdened by lack of funds and spend much of our
time fundraising which is not only boring but is a waste of time which
could be spent doing actual HRE work.

Best regards,

Jana Ondrácková
Czech Helsinki Committee
Prague, Czech Republic



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