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International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICSS) - Report on initial findings
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International Civic and Citizenship Education StudyThe 2009 IEA study of civic and citizenship education (ICCS) investigated the ways in which young people are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens in modern societies. It reports on student k...
Tackling Poverty and Social Exclusion: Textbook for NGO practitioners published online
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The conference "Tackling Poverty and Social Exclusion in Europe through Education for Democratic Citizenship / Human Rights Education” was jointly organised by BEMIS (Black and Ethnic Minorities Infrastructure in Scotland) and DARE (Democracy and H...
Tackling Poverty - Scottish Government takes on DARE´s policy recommendations
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The Scottish Government took on DARE´s policy recommendations on tackling poverty and social exclusion and subsequently published a learning point on Democratic Citizenship and Poverty. This is a good reference point for DARE´s impact on the releva...
European Commission and Council of Europe kick off joint talks on EU's accession to the Convention on Human Rights
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Strasbourg, 07.07.2010 - Official talks started today on the European Union's accession to the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR). Thorbjørn Jagland, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, and Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the E...
DARE General Assembly accepts EDC/HRE key players as new members
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At DARE´s General Assembly on 3rd July 2010 in Vilnius 7 new member organisations joined the DARE network. For a strong commitment of Europe for Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education strong NGO´s are evidently needed. The...
DARE Video: Yulia Pererva (CoE) on the relevance of the EDC/HRE Charter for NGOs
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At the DARE Focus Meeting “Citizenship Reloaded: The Demand for `Active Citizenship´ in Europe and its Implications for Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education (EDC/HRE)" in Vilnius/Lithuania, July 1-3, 2010, 37 stakeholder...
Citizenship Reloaded: DARE Focus Meeting and Policy Recommendations
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The DARE Focus Meeting “Citizenship Reloaded: The Demand for `Active Citizenship´ in Europe and its Implications for Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education (EDC/HRE)" in Vilnius/Lithuania, July 1-3, 2010, brought together...
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture - 26 June 2010
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Joint Statement on the Occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture - 26 June 2010Four United Nations mechanisms involved in preventing torture and helping its victims have stated that despite a well-built international legal fr...
PACE unanimously opposed to a general ban on wearing of the burqa
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Strasbourg, 23.06.2010 -– There should be no general prohibition on wearing the burqa and the niqab or other religious clothing, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has said – though it added that legal restrictions may be...
20th anniversary of the UN Migrant Workers Convention
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On the occasion of the 20th anniversary year of the UN Migrant Workers Convention, December18, the International Resource Centre on the Human Rights of Migrants, together with the European Platform for Migrant Workers Rights, launches the campaign:
FRA stakeholder consultation mapping and institutional needs assessment in HRE in the European Union
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The Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) has conducted a Human Rights Education stakeholder consultation, in order to identify specific areas for the FRA to engage. This has resulted in a mapping, which is giving an overview of existing activity and an in...
TRIALOG - Trilateral Dialogue of Human Rights Educators in German-speaking Countries
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The idea of TRIALOG - building an informal network of human rights educators - was born during a coffee break at the VDPA+15 conference in August 2008. Half a year later, in February 2009, human rights educators from Austria, Germany and Switzerland...
The right to education of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers
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Please, find my report on the right to education of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.This report was presented at the beginning of June 2010 at the Human Rights Council, together with my reports of the official visits to Mongolia, Paraguay an...
Call for applications: MA in Human Rights & Conflict Management 2010-2011 (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa)
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Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy, calls for applications for the IX Edition Master of Arts in "Human Rights and Conflict Management" (a. y. 2010-2011). Applications shall be submitted online at www.humanrights.sssup.it.Applications for...
Conference 'Education and Citizenship in a Globalising World' (London, 19-20 November 2010)
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Dear Colleagues, Human rights educators will be very welcome to present at this conference.Hugh Starkey -------------Education and Citizenship in a Globalising World (19-20 November 2010, Institute of Education University of London)http://www.ioe.
New EMHRN publication with methodologies for using games, films and role-playing in HRE
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EMHRN publishes "Resources for Human Rights Education 2: Using Games, Films and Role-Playing" This resource book is based on the experiences of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) Summer School in Turkey 2008. The book looks at dif...
Teachers and Human Rights Education new book now available
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The new book Teachers and Human Rights Education (Audrey Osler and Hugh Starkey) is now published and is available now from Trentham Books or from the US distributor Stylus.Why do teachers need to be familiar with human rights? In multicultural so...
Launch of Human Rights Education on amnesty.org
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Amnesty International's work in human rights education spans formal, non-formal and informal sectors across all continents. Information about international human rights education is online now.Amnesty International believes that human rights educat...
Citizenship through Religious Education
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By Ted HuddlestonCitizenship through Religious Education is a new educational resource that provides teachers with ideas and activities for teaching Citizenship, within the context of Religious Education, at Key Stages 3 and 4.It contains detailed le...
Council of Europe Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education adopted
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On 11 May 2010, the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and representatives of the 47 Council of Europe member states adopted Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)7 on the Council of Europe Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Educatio...
