Wim et al - I'll try to look for a more fully elaborated list - but just a quick response to your query. I would certainly take issue with your having included "tolerance" in your short-list of values, let alone one to which we should collectively aspire!? Though through much of our multilateral work we're very much saddled with "tolerance" being articulated as a value or principle of merit - I believe it is so only because that is the barest mimimum to which diverse state-parties could agree - and found therefore across an all too broad a range of national and international human rights and related instruments!! Anywhere "tolerance" of diversity is named as a value, objective or goal - we in fact should aspire to "awareness, understanding, appreciation and welcoming" of that diversity. We should in fact be working at every opportunity to expunge this terminology whenever and wherever it may be found !! We "tolerate" things that we'd rather not have anything to do with - given the choice - but that we in fact have no choice but to cope with and accept - certainly not a very healthy and/or sustainable position!! My quick thought - Michael. Michael Kerr Coordinator Karuna Community Services # 310 - 15 Maitland Place Toronto, Ontario M4Y 2X3 Canada Phone : 416-966-3882 Fax : 416-971-6780 Nurturing healthy, equitable and sustainable community across and beyond the greater Toronto region. ----- Original Message ---- Dear colleagues, It is clear that human rights standards (and children's rights standards) are underpinned by values, which we could name 'human rights values', respectively 'children's rights values'. It is clear as well that respect for diversity, equality, tolerance, freedom and solidarity are examples of such values. Human rights education, in our understanding, is not only education about and for (and through) human rights in the legal sense of the term, but also education for human rights values, which are applicable in daily life. This raises the question: which are those 'human rights values' (or 'children's rights values'). What we are looking for now is a list of such human rights values or children's rights values which has a solid base (this means: a list which is more than just intuitively compiled but grounded in some resarch work). We would be very grateful if you could help us. Many thanks in advance Wim Taelman Wim Taelman (coordinator) VORMEN vzw (Flemish Organisation for Human Rights Education) Lange Gasthuisstraat 29 B-2000 Antwerpen (Belgium) www.vormen.org ======== Global Human Rights Education listserv ======= Send mail intended for the list to < >. Archives of the list can be found at: http://www.hrea.org/lists/hr-education/ **You are welcome to reprint, copy, archive, quote or re-post this item, but please retain the original and listserv source.
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