"Popular Education for Human Rights" now also available in Chinese and Indonesian

Popular Education for Human Rights: 24 Participatory Exercises for Facilitators and Teachers by Richard Pierre Claude and distributed by HREA is now available in Chinese and Indonesian. Soon both publications can be accessed in full-text on the HREA site. Arabic and Spanish versions of "Popular Education" are currently being developed.

Popular Education for Human Rights uses "empowerment" methods for participants with little familiarity with human rights. This is a manual for trainers interested in a pre-tested programme which does not over-burden participants with legal terminology, but at the same time is clearly based on internationally defined human rights standards. The 24 exercises are designed for non-formal grass-roots education emphasizing, among others: women's and children's issues, and organised around specified values, e.g., respect for dignity and fair rules, links between human rights and responsibilities, building civil society, confronting prejudice, and "information for empowerment", etc. The manual's highly participatory methods can be adapted to many diverse settings and cultures and, while designed for popular education, nevertheless, have been successfully used in programmes of formal education as well.

The English version of Popular Education for Human Rights is available on-line in full-text. Hard copies can be ordered on-line in the Publications section. Hard copies of the Indonesian version can be ordered via the National Commission for Human Rights (KOMNASHAM) in Indonesia.