People's Movement for Human Rights Education

A Dream to Come True:
Human Rights as a Way of Life.

Publications:

New! Human Rights Cities:
Civic Engagement
for Societal Development

An exciting film:
Human Rights Cities
of the World

New! Human Rights Learning: Pedagogies and Politics of Peace
This paper is based on a lecture delivered for the UNESCO Chair for Peace Education Master Conference at the University of Puerto Rico, April 15, 2009.

New! Know Human Rights, Claim Human Rights
Conference Presentation by Satya Das at the 15 Years Vienna World Conference on Human Rights

New! The Nature of Human Rights Learning For all to know human rights as a way of life
Article presented by PDHRE President at Vienna +fifteen, for the cerebration of the 60th Anniversary of the UDHR

New! Chain of Humanity for Dignity, Equality and Life Without Discrimination
Article by PDHRE President in e-Civicus - Issued 10 December 2008

Human Rights Learning:
A Peoples' Report

Women Hold Up the Sky
Video/dramas and training manual on CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women

In Our Hands: Human Rights
as a Way of Life
Article by PHDRE President

Understanding Human Rights: A Manual for Human Rights Education
Second edition of a manual for Human Rights Education

Freedom of Religion and Belief:
An Essential Human Right
A video/drama training manual. Produced in collaboration by IARF and PDHRE.

Passport to Dignity
Connecting the 12 Areas of Concern of the Beijing Platform For Action to the Human Rights Framework

A Call for Justice
A Resource Packet to Empower the Work of NGOs and Community Workers

2009-The International Year
of Human Rights Learning
Resolutions by the UN
[download the first resolution]
[download the second resolution]

"Women and men must join in building a new political culture based on human rights through learning about the practical holistic vision of human rights. We have no other option if we are to achieve economic and social justice in equality and non-discrimination for all."
-Shulamith Koenig
Recipient of the 2003 UN Award for outstanding achievement in the field of Human Rights

An exciting, vivid introduction describing the Human Rights Cities initiative and the imperative for Human Rights Learning at the community level.

Founding President: Shulamith Koenig

Board of Directors:
Presidium: Susana Chiarotti, Virginia Dandan, Peter Leuprecht, Adama Samassekou
Vice Presidents: Kamal Hossain, Betty Reardon
Board Members: Neshad R. Asllani, MD, Upendra Baxi, Wolfgang Benedek, Fantu Cheru, Ivanka Corti, Satya Das, Cees Flinterman, Richard Goldstone, Iva Kaufman, David Kilgour, Melinda Kimble, Miloon Kothari, Catherine Lalumière, Walther Lichem, Orly Lubin, Stephen Marks, Kathleen Modrowski, Jean-Louis Roy, Arjun Sengupta, Daniel Solomon, Danilo Turk, Burns H. Weston
Advisor: Elsa Stamatopoulou
Endorsers: Oscar Arias, P.N. Bhagwati, Willy Brandt†, Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter, Adolfo Perez-Esquivel

Global Initiatives:

Washington DC:
The first Human Rights City
in the USA!
[download the DC Council Resolution]
[download the invitation]

Human Rights Cities
Bringing human rights home.

Achievements as reports from the field

New! We are delighted to inform our readers that the city of Carrboro, NC, has adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a guideline for laws, policies and practices on the way to developing Carrboro as a Human Rights City. Chapel Hill, NC is on the way to doing the same. These efforts are initiated by the Human Rights Center of Chapel Hill & Carrboro
[download the resolution]

A New Global Linking & Learning Programme on Human Rights in Development

Global Appeal
for Human Rights Learning
A call for endorsement

Transforming
the Patriarchical Order
to a Human Rights Culture
through Human Rights Learning
Men and women changing the world

Millennium Development Goals as human rights learning: building the capacities of the claim holders through learning
as empowerment [chinese] [french] [spanish]
PDHRE presentation at the high level meeting - A UN document

"We will accept nothing less than human rights.
We will know them and claim them,
For all women, men, youth and children,
From those who speak human rights,
But deny them to their own people."