[hr-education] Re: Does human rights education make a difference?

Dear colleagues,

Thank you for helping us in reaching our HRE colleagues through the 
network. I have made a slight change in the announcement for we missed 
putting our postal address in the first one, and so I would request you all 
to kindly share this with others again.

Thanking you.

Warm regards,

Sanjay


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Dear HRE Colleagues,

Greetings from ARRC  !!!

For decades, many groups in Asia and the Pacific have been implementing 
human rights education programs at the grassroots level. There are many 
cases of successful implementation of programs but not many people know 
about them outside their own community or country. Information on these 
cases can not only inspire other groups into doing human rights education, 
but also provide models to be followed.

ARRC feels that now is the time to compile success stories from the region. 
This compilation would document our experiences, our reflections, our 
history and convictions that have developed whilst working as human rights 
education advocates in the Asia and the Pacific region.

As part of our ongoing service in the Asia Pacific region, we are launching 
a project called "Does Human Rights Education Makes a difference?" The goal 
of this research work is to collect personal interviews, printed materials, 
manuals, etc. and document likewise the successful experience in human 
rights education from groups or individuals conducting non-formal and 
formal human rights education programmes or projects in this region.

We at ARRC are happy to announce that we have been successful in 
documenting and sharing some experiences of human rights educators in the 
Asia-Pacific region. However, more needs to be done. For the need of the 
hour is to facilitate exchanges of experiences, strategies and 
methodologies which reflect our convictions that have developed whilst 
facilitating human rights education and we at ARRC are aiming to do the same.

In lieu with this, we would like to draw the attention of our friends and 
colleagues to our ongoing research work in documenting HRE success stories. 
We like to take this opportunity to invite HRE advocates to kindly submit 
success stories so that the experience and knowledge can be shared and our 
partners can enhance their skills and be more inspired that, "it can happen".

In appreciation ARRC's Selection Committee, will offer awards and modest 
cash incentives for the best success story to the HRE advocates to share 
their experiences and help inspire their fellow advocates for the same.

Please send in your stories or a story you know to us so that we can 
compile and publish the same in our quarterly journal, which we are going 
to start. The first publication of which will be launched shortly by 
December 2001. Kindly send the story as Word document, A 4 page, between 
2000-2500 words, Times Roman Font, 12-point size with 1.5 line space. 
Kindly send a covering page consisting of the title of your story, along 
with your name, full postal address, contact telephone / fax numbers with 
dial codes and email(s). The story should be sent via email as Word 
attachment, along with two copies of the same via post, marked "HRE Success 
Story". For any further clarifications kindly contact the undersigned.

We would also like to request everyone to kindly share this information 
with those partners who do not have access to Internet so that they too 
could share their experience and also with those whom you know with 
interest in HRE advocacy.

Looking forward to share your experiences and exploring the possibilities 
of networking to create a new culture of human rights.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Warm regards,


Sanjay
ARRC - Senior Researcher

Asian Regional Resource Center
for Human Rights Education (ARRC)
CPD Court
86 / 12 Ratchadapisek Road
Ladyao Bangkok 10900
THAILAND
Email : arrc@ksc.th.com
Web : www.hr-alliance.org/arrc/




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