Shulamith Koenig: Biographical Notes
Shulamith
Koenig, Founder and Executive Director of PDHRE, People's Movement (Decade) for Human Rights Education, Initiated
and spearheaded the call for a decade of human rights education, and embarked
on a worldwide advocacy and implementation campaign: “human rights education
and learning across all sectors of society “with the UN Human Rights Center,
the UN Commission on Human Rights, and at the Vienna Human Rights Conference.
These efforts resulted in the launching of the UN Decade for Human Right
Education, 1995-2004. Now leading the Human Rights Cities Initiative
and the establishment of Regional and International Learning Institutions
for Human Rights education.
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