[hr-education] Requests for Information: 7 - 13 May 2007

Dear Members, 

Below is a compilation of requests for information sent to the Global
Human Rights Education listserv during the past week. At the bottom of
each request you will find an e-mail address, so that you can respond to
the request directly.

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CONTENTS 

1. Looking for standardized test for measuring awareness of child rights
among teachers/students
2. Seeking resources for criminal justice and human rights programming
(Liberia)
3. Seeking financial support for study of criminal justice and human
rights (Somalia)
4. Seeking Publisher for a handbook on redesigning professional schools to
be rights-oriented


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1. LOOKING FOR STANDARDIZED TEST FOR MEASURING AWARENESS OF CHILD RIGHTS
AMONG TEACHERS/STUDENTS

Hi everybody 

I am Usha from India. Currently pursuing my PhD on child rights, kindly
help me with modules which can foster awareness of child rights among
teachers as well as students. Is there a standardized test for finding out
the awareness of child rights among teachers/students?

Usha Ajithkumar 
Mumbai, India 
E-mail: <        >



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2. SEEKING RESOURCES FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAMMING
(LIBERIA)

Dear Colleagues, 

I am a human rights fellow from Liberia. I have interest in the criminal
justice area as well as the human rights education program you wish to
offer.

I believe that with this area of education it will help us to address the
so many criminal and human rights violations in our country Liberia.

Adama K. Dempster 
Children Against Violence (CAV)Inc. 
Monrovia, Liberia 
E-mail: <       >



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3. SEEKING FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR STUDY OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN
RIGHTS (SOMALIA)

Dear Colleagues, 

Many thanks for the important publications and holistic desire of
assisting many human rights activistis interests to have a dynamic
capacity for the capability on their task througout the world.

In that context, Peace Action Society Organization for Somalia (PASOS) is
a national registered NGO actively working in Mogadishu and some southern
regions in Somalia rededicated on peace and human rights mostly focused
children and women facing huge humanitarian vulnerability for such abuses
as war ravaged country in the past sixteen years.

Three management board members of PASOS are in dire need of financial
support to have the opportunity of studying an education on criminal
justice and human rights to develop the capacity of what we are mandated
to do which is basic principles that we do have of either group or
individual criminal case loads.

PASOS is therefore seeking a financial support to have educational
possibilities (fees) and will be remembered that.

Sincerely yours. 

Mohamed Jumale Ali 
Nairobi, Kenya 
Cell Phone #+254-722-576938 
Email: <        >



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4. SEEKING PUBLISHER FOR A HANDBOOK ON REDESIGNING PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS TO
BE RIGHTS-ORIENTED

Dear friends on the HR-Education list: 

Does anyone have suggestions for a publisher for a complete manuscript
handbook on how developing and transition countries can evaluate their
programs, curricula and national needs for law, public administration,
business, and social science education, and make the schools more
democratic/rights oriented, clinical/skills oriented, accountable, and
linked to sustainable development strategies?

Many of you may be familiar with the book, ESCAPE FROM THE IVORY TOWER:
STUDENT ADVENTURES IN DEMOCRATIC EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION (Jossey Bass,
1995) that I authored with several students at universities in the U.S.,
offering democratic, clinical, service learning course curricula and
approaches throughout the social sciences.

The new book/manuscript is a sequel to that one, tentatively titled,
ESCAPE FROM PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS: Redesigning Professional Education, and
has been written for developing and transition countries; for students,
teachers, administrators, and education policy planners.

There are case studies in the book from four continents -- Vietnam/Asia,
Lithuania/Europe, Ghana/Africa, and Ecuador/South America. They come out
of work consulting on curricula for the Soros Foundation, for Georgetown
University, and for others.

Though I would love to publish the work with Jossey Bass, as with the
first work, that publisher has been bought by a commercial press and only
publishes works that it thinks have a market for at least 5,000 copies,
which is extremely high for a handbook in our field.

Any ideas on publishers/ distributors and NGOs that could carry this book
would be welcome.

By the way, it may also be possible to reprint and reissue the earlier
book.

Thanks much! 

David Lempert, Ph.D., J.D., M.B.A., E.D. (Hon.) Founder and CEO,
Unseen America Projects, Inc. 
E-mail: <          >








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