Amnesty International: Human Rights Education
A variety of materials and links from Amnesty International, including their latest booklet, September 11th Crisis Response Guide and The Fourth "R", Amnesty's human rights education newsletter.

Annotated Human Rights Education Bibliography
Provided by the Soros Foundation, this comprehensive bibliography lists articles, books, reference materials, professional training institutions and media information on human rights education. Also includes a Spanish-language list of resources.

Annotated Primer for Selecting Democratic and Human Rights Education Teaching Materials
Annotated primer by Felisa Tibbitts, the director of Human Rights Education Associates (HREA). Also available in Russian.

Center for the Study of Human Rights  (CSHR)
Pioneered at Columbia University, CSHR promotes human rights research, education and training, and has distinguished itself through its interdisciplinary approach to human rights.

Human Rights Education Associates  (HREA)
An international nongovernmental organization that supports human rights learning; the training of activists and professionals; the development of educational materials and programming; and community-building through on-line technologies. The HREA Library lists sourcebooks, standards, glossaries, U.N. documents, treaties and general reference works, with a special section on human rights education bibliographies.

Human Rights Internet  (HRI)
Provides access to resources including an online library of human rights documents and directories to human rights education programs, syllabi and textbook profiles.

Human Rights Organizations and Resources
Extensive list of worldwide links to organizations involved in the study and teaching of human rights.

Human Rights Resource Center
Working in partnership with the University of Minnesota, the Human Rights Resource Center has HRE resources produced by nonprofit organizations and independent publishers, including more than 50 curricula, guides, videos, documents and other educational aids.

National Center for Human Rights Education  (NCHRE)
Provides educational programs for community groups, nonprofit organizations, schools and universities, helping individuals to appraise their efforts in the context of the global human rights standards, through introductory and intensive training workshops and educational resource materials.

The People's Decade of Human Rights Education  (PDHRE-International)
A nonprofit, international service organization that works directly and indirectly with its network of affiliates - primarily women's and social justice organizations - to develop and advance pedagogies for human rights education relevant to people's daily lives in the context of their struggles for social and economic justice and democracy.

Teaching Human Rights Online
Contains critical thinking exercises for individual learning, collaborative problem-solving assignments for student teams and conferencing tools for international education online.

UNESCO Education Web Site
UNESCO's action in education is shaped around three strategic objectives: Promoting education as a fundamental human right; Improving the quality of education; Promoting experimentation, innovation and the diffusion and sharing of information and best practices as well as policy dialogue in education.

UNESCO Final Report of the Fifth Session of the Advisory Committee on Education for Peace, Human Rights, Democracy, International Understanding and Tolerance

UNHCR Teachers' Resources
Tools for teachers on human rights and other subjects relevant to refugees and asylum from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

University of Minnesota: Human Rights Library
Thousands of links to human rights documents, search engines, mirror sites, and much more. Site is also available in French, Spanish and Russian.

U.S. Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2001
The State Department's annual report presents human rights conditions throughout the world.



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