7-11/9/2015- Training Course "Human rights education training_Formation à l'éducation aux droits de l'homme" (Caen, France)

ATTENTION: Working language is French only!!

The International Institute for Human Rights and Peace organizes, from September 7th till September 11th, with the support of the Council of Europe and the Lower-Normandy Region, a human rights education training of trainers.

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world” Eleanor Roosevelt.

These words, said by the President of the Commission in charge of preparing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, perfectly summarize what these rights are: they are our everyday life!

They have an impact on every aspect of our lives, they constitute our personal universe, but we rarely know it. Perhaps because human rights sound more like a “label”.

But far from being a label, human rights constitute a whole, necessary to the development of human beings. Still, these rights have to be respected, defended, and known!

This is what this training is about: knowing these rights and make them known.

Human Rights Education is a method; a process permitting to enhance knowledge and skills, as well as it promotes attitudes and behaviors, in order to foster and support human rights.
Aware of the effectiveness of this method in the development of a universal culture of human rights, the International Institute for Human Rights and Peace (2idhp) decided to organize regularly this type of training, making it one if the main axis of its action.

The goals of this training
During five days, the Institute asked participants to initiate to Human Rights Education through a participatory approach, within a group dynamic stressing on action and experience.
The aim of this training is to give participants concrete means to invite youths to actively participate to the promotion of human rights, and especially to the struggle against all forms of discrimination. This training is especially addressed to people working or wishing to work with publics (young or less young) on these questions.

The trainers
- Laure de Witte, trainer and expert on “Human Rights Education for the Council of Europe”, co-writer of the “Compass” manual for Human Rights Education with the youths;
- Jonas Bochet, jurist, director of the International Institute for Human Rights and Peace;
- Sarah Barnier-Leroy, jurist, project officer at the International Institute for Human Rights and Peace (youth projects).

Contact for questions:
Sarah BARNIER LEROY
E-Mail: sarah.barnier-leroy@2idhp.eu
Phone: +33 (0) 2 31 26 30 93

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