[hre-asiapacific] Role of HRE in strengthening communities in New Zealand and the Pacific (Auckland, 11-13 July 2004)

Conference:
"Living and Learning Together:
The role of human rights education in strengthening communities in New
Zealand and the Pacific"

11- 13 July 2004

WAIPUNA HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTRE, MT WELLINGTON, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND


Tena koutou katoa!

The NZ Human Rights Commission and the NZ National Commission for UNESCO
extend a warm invitation to participate in a conference to take place in
Auckland / Tamaki Makaurau, 11-13 July 2004.

The conference is also being held with the support of the New Zealand
Ministry of Education and the New Zealand Baha'i community. The overall
theme for the conference is "Living and Learning Together: the role of
human rights education in strengthening communities in New Zealand and the
Pacific".

- Formal education: pre school through to tertiary; and,
- Life long learning: community development, the workplace, media and in
   our own lives.

The Conference will particularly appeal to all those interested in applying
human rights education principles - whether as practitioners, managers,
academics, teachers, or educators in a related field, students, care
givers, community workers and those who have a general interest in human
rights.

The objectives of the conference are:

- To mark the end, in 2004, of two International Decades: the UN Decade for
   Human Rights Education and the UN Decade for the Rights on Indigenous
Peoples.

- To share information, strategies, delivery styles and resources between
   human rights educators and interested people and organisations within New
   Zealand, the South Pacific and the wider Asia Pacific Forum region.

- To develop ongoing networks and communication systems to enable closer
   relationships and collaboration on human rights education.

- To provide initial information and assist with the development of the NZ
   Action Plan for Human Rights (NZAPHR) which aims to help set the agenda for
   human rights over the coming decade.


Key note speaker and conference programme

We have the privilege of announcing Special Rapporteur on the right to
education of the UN Commission on Human Rights, Professor Katarina
Tomasevski, will be the key note speaker at the Conference. Other speakers
and workshop presenters will be confirmed in due course, though we welcome,
for consideration, any requests to add workshops which could contribute to
the objectives of the Conference.


For more information contact:

Lili Tuioti or Rosi Fitzpatrick, TEUILA Consultancy, PO Box 78 321, Grey
Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand.
Phone: +64 9 360 0257, fax: +64 9 360 0258, e-mail: tkconz@xtra.co.nz; or,
Victoria Gregory (Human Rights Commission) victoriag@hrc.co.nz

Updated Information on the Conference and a copy of the registration form,
which includes early bird rates, can be found at: www.hrc.co.nz/conference


"Nau te rourou, Naku te rourou, ka ora te iwi"
"With your food basket, With my food basket, we will have enough to sustain
us all"


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