[hr-education] Human rights education tops OSCE Vienna meeting agenda

WARSAW, 24 March 2004 - Human rights education constitutes a strong
instrument for conflict prevention and preventing human rights violations.
More than 200 human rights experts will focus, amongst other things, on
the long-term effects of human rights education and lessons learned at a
two-day meeting, held by the OSCE's Bulgarian Chairmanship and the OSCE
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).

The Vienna meeting will cover formal human rights education; human rights
education in school curricula; human rights education and training for
public officials; and informal human rights education.

Media representatives are invited to attend all the sessions of the
meeting, which opens on Thursday, 25 March, at 15:00.

A press conference will also be held at the Hofburg, room 201, on Friday,
26 March, at 13:30.

Further information and the agenda of the meeting can be seen at the
special website of the event:
http://www.osce.org/odihr/meetings/2004/shdm/march/

For admittance, please bring your OSCE media badge or a valid press card
to the security desk in the lobby of the Hofburg Congress Centre, at any
time from 14:30 onwards on Thursday, 25 March (main entrance from
Heldenplatz).  Parking space is available for the press on Thursday from
14:30 onwards and on Friday, 26 March, between 8:30 and 18:00 in the
OSCE-reserved parking area on Heldenplatz. Temporary parking permits
should be collected from the security desk.

Urdur Gunnarsdottir
ODIHR Spokesperson, Press and Public Information Adviser
Public Affairs Unit
OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Aleje Ujazdowskie 19
00-557, Warsaw
Poland
Tel.: +48 22 520 06 00 ext. 4162 +48 603 683 122 (mobile)
Fax: +48 22 520 06 05
E-mail: Urdur.Gunnarsdottir@odihr.pl


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