Many audio-visual tools currently exists and new ones become available every day. Thus it is impossible to list them all. This chapter gives an overview of the main new electronic resources for human rights educators. Note that web site addresses of organisations and on-line publications can be found in Chapters 2 and 4.
About the United Nations…Human Rights. New York: United Nations, 1991. Video. Language: English. This 16 minutes film deals with many abuses suffered by children throughout the world and documents the UN’s effort to bring about universal standards for human rights through the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Available from: United Nations Publications Sales Section, Room DC 2-853, New York, NY 10017 USA. Amnesty Interactive: A history and atlas of human rights. CD-ROM. Language: English. An interactive CD ROM which presents a history of people, ideas, and events that have shaped the history of human rights. Available from: Amnesty International-USA, Publications Dept., 322 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10001. Animated cartoon video on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Video. Languages: English, French, Spanish. A 20-minute video that illustrates in cartoon form each article of the Universal Declaration. Send check or international money order for 25 British pounds to Amnesty International, International Secretariat, 1 Easton Street, London, WC1X 8DJ, United Kingdom. For Every Child, A Better World. Video. United Nations. New York: Muppets Press/Golden Books, 1994. Language: English. Children’s storybook with Sesame Street characters relating basic human rights concerns. Human Rights. United Nations. New York: United Nations, 1991. Language: English. This video focuses on the plight of abused children around the world and the United Nation’s efforts to create universal standards of fairness through the Convention on the Rights of the Child. "Everybody has the right…" Warsaw: Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, 1994. Languages: English, Polish, Russian. Part I includes five films (each 15 minutes) about the philosophical foundations of human rights: dignity, liberty, equality, limits of power, rule of law. Part II includes five films (each 15 minutes) analysing specific rights: the right to life, freedom of speech, freedom of association and gathering, right to privacy, right to ownership. Human Rights Film Guide. Anne Gelman and Milos Stehlik. Chicago: Global Vision, Inc. Language: English. This guide lists movies by subjects (such as ‘Social and Economic Relations’ and ‘Disappearances and Political Killings’), geographic region, country and title. Out of the Silence: Fighting for Human Rights. Chuck Olin Associates. Chicago: Chuck Olin Associates, 1992. Language: English. Hour-long documentary provides live footage, photographs, documents and presentations by human rights activists and former prisoners of conscience. The video is useful for secondary classrooms and comes with a teacher’s guide. Rights and Wrongs: Human Rights Television. New York: Global Vision, Inc. Video. Language: English. Public television series narrated by Charlayne Hunter-Gault addressing human rights concerns around the world. Stand Up Now for Human Rights! Council of Europe. Video. Languages: English and French (others in preparation). History of human rights; young people working for human rights in Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. Available from: Human Rights Information Centre, Council of Europe, F-67075 Strasbourg Cedex, France. The European Convention on Human Rights. Warsaw: Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, 1997. Video. Languages: English, Polish, Russian. A 21 minute video that explains the origins and articles in the European Convention on Human Rights. Is accompanied by manual. Video and manual are on-line at: http://erc.hrea.org/Library/video/ECHR The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Animated Video. United Nations, New York, 1990. Languages: English, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. An animated video of children’s drawings depicting each article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Poster. New York: United Nations, 1993. Poster. This poster includes the complete text of the Declaration. The United Nations’ System of Human Rights Protection. Warsaw: Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, 1997. Video, 20 min. Languages: English, Polish, Russian. A 20 minute video that explains the origins and articles in the UN system of human rights protection. Is accompanied by manual. Video and manual are on-line at: http://erc.hrea.org/Library/video/UN You have rights: know them, defend them, promote them. Leaders and human rights promoters in Peru. Lima, IPEDEHP, 1998. Video. Languages: English and Spanish. This 20-minute video describes the struggle for human rights in Peru. The video can be ordered from IPEDEHP, e-mail: ipedhp@amauta.rcp.net.pe Women Hold Up The Sky. Eight short training videos for learning about CEDAW. New York: PDHRE, 1999 Languages: English, French, and Spanish. Accompanied by the manual "Between their stories and our realities..." A compelling series of 8 short film training videos on women's human rights. Together with the manual the eight short films bring the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women "CEDAW" alive for women and men around the world. These engaging true stories are rendered in short narrative dramas which capture and celebrate the complexity, strength and vibrant determination of women living in a globalised, patriarchal world. Four NGO's acted as producers: Instituto de Género, Derecho y Desarrollo, Rosario, Argentina; NGO Resource Center, Zanzibar, Tanzania; TOSTAN of Senegal and PDHRE. Can be ordered from PDHRE, e-mail: pdhre@igc.org
Stephen A. Hansen, Getting Online for Human Rights. Frequently Asked Questions and Answers About Using the Internet in Human Rights Work: http://shr.aaas.org/online/cover.htm Concise Guide to Human Rights on the Internet (Derechos, September 1998): http://www.derechos.org/human-rights/manual.htm
Directories of Human Rights Organisations on the WWW: AAAS Directory of Human Rights Resources: http://shr.aaas.org/dhr.htm Internet Directory (by Human Rights Internet): http://www.hri.ca/coldfusion/cfidir/
5.2.2 Education and training materials Electronic Resource Centre for Human Rights Education (maintained by HREA): http://erc.hrea.org Human Rights Education Directory (Human Rights Internet): http://www.hri.ca People's Decade of Human Rights Education: http://www.pdhre.org
5.2.3 Newsletters and listservs HR-EDUCATION listserv The Global HRE listserv is administered by HREA and the University of Minnesota Human Rights Resource Center. Announcements of trainings, new publications and lessons learned in human rights education are distributed regularly. Working language is English. Archives can be found at: http://www.hrea.org/lists/hr-education/markup/maillist.html. To subscribe send a message to majordomo@hrea.org with the following command in the body of your e-mail message: subscribe hr-education Human Rights Education Newsletter (published by the Education in Human Rights Network and the Centre for Global Education, York, United Kingdom): http://erc.hrea.org/Library/HREnewsletter/ The HRE Newsletter is issued three times a year, in Winter, Spring and Summer. Sections include 'Articles' by human rights educationalists about their work, 'Events' such as conferences and competitions, 'Information/News' concerning HRE events worldwide, 'Resources' describing new releases, 'Reports' on HRE seminars, 'From Other Newsletters' with excerpts, and 'Reviews' of human right education publications. Language: English. HR-EDUCATION-RUS listserv This Russian language listserv is administered by the Moscow School of Human Rights. To subscribe send a message to majordomo@irex.ru with the following command in the body of the message: subscribe hr-education-rus Revista Educación y DDHH (published by SERPAJ, Montevideo): http://www.serpaj.org.uy/revista.htm This Spanish-language journal is published three times a year by the Servicio Paz y Justicia (Uruguay) and is completely dedicated to human rights education in Latin America. The electronic edition contains full-text articles on approaches to human rights education, pedagogy, human rights theory, etcetera. Language: Spanish. Boletín de la Red Peruana de Educación en Derechos Humanos y la Paz (published by the Peruvian Network of Human Rights Educators): http://www.iidh.ed.cr/perucre/redmenu.html Quartely newsletter of the Peruvian Human Rights Education Network, a very active, national network of human rights education organisations. Issues for 1998 and 1999 are on-line. Language: Spanish. The Fourth R (published by Amnesty International-USA Educators Network): http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/education/materials.htm This quarterly newsletter published by Amnesty-USA contains many resources for educators in primary, secondary and high schools. "The Fourth R" derives it names from a belief that teaching of human rights is as basic as teaching the traditional three Rs. The Fourth R should occupy as central a place in the curriculum as reading, writing, and arithmetic. Back issues are on-line in full-text. Language: English.
5.2.4 General reference/on-line libraries Project DIANA Online Human Rights Archive: http://diana.law.yale.edu/ Human Rights Online: http://www.hro.org [in Russian] International Law and Human Rights through the Doddel server: http://doddel.cs.unimaas.nl/~ingelse/misc.htm University of Minnesota Human Rights Library: http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/
Amnesty International: http://www.amnesty.org Asian Human Rights Commission: http://www.ahrchk.net Derechos: http://www.derechos.org Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights: http://www.ihf-hr.org International Organisation Against Torture (OMCT): http://www.omct.org
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights: http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/africa/comision.html European Court of Human Rights: http://www.dhcour.coe.fr/ European Commission of Human Rights: http://www.dhcommhr.coe.fr/ Organization of American States: http://www.oas.org Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe: http://www.osce.org United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: http://www.unhchr.ch United Nations System Web Site Locator: http://www.unsystem.org
5.2.7 Collections of treaties, conventions and declarations Council of Europe European Treaties: http://www.coe.fr/eng/legaltxt/treaties.htm Organization of American States: http://www.oas.org/EN/PROG/ichr/basic.htm Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe Document Archive: http://www.osce.org/indexe-da.htm UNHCHR International Human Rights Instruments: http://www.unhchr.ch/html/intlinst.htm United Nations Treaty Collection: http://untreaty.un.org University of Minnesota Human Rights Library International Human Rights Instruments: http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/ainstls1.htm
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