[hr-education] On-line Forum on the follow-up to the UN Decade for HRE (18 November-8 December 2002)

Dear members,

As already publicised in the past weeks, as of Monday, 18 November a
moderated forum discussion for non-governmental organisations and other
civil society actors will be organised on the Global HRE List. The
objective of this forum is to discuss ideas and strategies to strengthen
HRE at the national, regional and international levels as a follow-up to
the Decade for HRE (1995-2004), including mobilisation
strategies/mechanisms which could be proposed for consideration to the
United Nations. The Forum will build on the recommendations made by many
actors, including this list's members, within the mid-term evaluation of
the Decade (2000; full report available at
<http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/
A.55.360.En?Opendocument>)

The forum will have the following agenda:

18-24 November
Follow-up to the Decade at the local and national levels

25 November-1 December
Follow-up to the Decade at the regional level

2 - 8 December
Follow-up to the Decade at the international level

Every Monday we will send out a "facilitation" message with questions
regarding that week's topic. At the end of each week, HREA will summarise
the week's discussion and will share the summary with all listserv
members. The summaries will be the basis for a report, prepared by HREA,
to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, for the
preparation of a study requested by the UN Commission on Human Rights (the
full text of the relevant CHR resolution is available at:
<http://www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/
E.CN.4.RES.2002.74.En?OpenDocument>)

On Monday you will receive a first message with the topic and questions
for discussion for the first week of the Forum.

We look forward to an interesting and exciting dialogue and encourage all
list members to share their experiences. We also encourage you to let
others -- who are not subscribed to the listserv -- know about this
On-line Forum, in order to get as many contributions and ideas as
possible. As always, we welcome contributions in any language, although
the main working language of the list is English. For the occasion of this
unique forum, we will translate messages from French, Russian and Spanish
into English.


Best wishes,

Frank Elbers
List moderator
Deputy Director, HREA


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BACKGROUND

For more information on initiatives undertaken in the framework of the
United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004), please visit
OHCHR's website at: http://www.unhchr.ch/education/main.htm

En español: http://www.unhchr.ch/spanish/html/menu6/1/edudec_sp.htm

En français: http://www.unhchr.ch/french/html/menu6/1/edudec_fr.htm




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