People's Movement for Human Rights Education

New! Human Rights Learning: A Peoples' Report
New PDHRE publication

New! Women Hold Up the Sky Video/dramas and training manual on CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women. Now available online.

New! In Our Hands: Human Rights as a Way of Life
New article by PHDRE President

Understanding Human Rights: A Manual for Human Rights Education
2nd 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

"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: 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:

New publication!
Human Rights Cities:
Civic Engagement
for Societal Development

Human Rights Cities
Bringing human rights home.

Achievements as reports from the field

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

Learn about the holistic vision of human rights:

Every woman, man, youth and child has the human right to a life in dignity. The human rights framework is a practical, effective tool to belong in community with dignity for all. Explore the 24 issues below, to learn human rights related to social and economic justice and injustice, breaking through the vicious cycle of humiliation. Discover how learning about human rights can put power in your hands to achieve social change. Learn what obligations and commitments your government has made to ensuring the realization of human rights for all, and hold your government accountable. Know your human rights, and claim them - become a mentor and a monitor! [ en français ] [ español ] [ Chinese ]

"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."