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Vol. 6, No. 2 Spring 1995

Human Rights Education:The Fourth R

Acronyms

AI Amnesty International

AIUSA Amnesty International United States of America

HRE Human Rights Education

NAPHRE North American Partners in Human Rights Educa-tion

UDHR Universal Declaration of Human Rights

UN United Nations

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and CulturalOrganization

UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund

The posters pictured in this issueof the Fourth R were displayed atthe 1994 Amnesty InternationalAnnual General Meeting inChicago as part of the ScholasticMagazine human rights postercontest.

Decade for Human Rights Education, 1995-2005

Index

UN Decade for Human Rights Education, 1995-2005 .. 2

Amnesty International HRE Projects ........................... 3

AIUSA Human Rights Educators’ Network ................. 5

HRE Organizations and Projects .................................. 6

International HRE Training Activities ....................... 16

Summer Courses .......................................................... 18

North American Partners for Human RightsEducation ..................................................................... 20

Share Your Ideas on Human Rights Educationthrough the Arts .......................................................... 20

Braden Rindy, 7th graderMonticello, WI

Photographer: Joel Glazier

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Human RightsEducation:The Fourth R

The title Human Rights Education: The Fourth Rderives from a belief that teaching of human rights isas basic as teaching the traditional three Rs. TheFourth R should occupy as central a place in the cur-riculum as reading, writing, and arithmetic.

EditorsGwen Willems

Managing EditorHh

Walter EnloeContributing Editor

Editorial BoardDiana G. Collier

International Human Rights Association ofAmerican Minorities (IHRAAM)

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Nancy FlowersAmnesty International USA

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Hilary HomesAmnesty International—Canada

(English Speaking)Hh

Shulamith KoenigOrganizing Committee, People’s Decade of Human

Rights EducationHh

Ed O’BrienNational Institute for Citizen Education in the Law

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Kristi Rudelius-PalmerUniversity of Minnesota Human Rights Center

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Janet SchmidtAmnesty International USA Human Rights

Educators’ NetworkHh

David ShimanUniversity of Vermont Center for World Education

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Laurie WisebergHuman Rights Internet

HhThe editors thank Larry Miller for his help inpreparing this edition of The Fourth R.

A publication of Amnesty International USA HumanRights Educators’ Network. Editorial Offices: AIUSA Human Rights Educators’ Network, 53 WestJackson Blvd., Suite 1162, Chicago, IL, 60604-3606U.S.; and Human Rights Center, University of Min-nesota, 437 Law Center, 229-19th Ave. South, Min-neapolis, MN 55455.

Editors’ Note

These are important times for human rights with milestones such as the beginning of theUN Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2005) and the signing of the Conventionon the Rights of the Child by President Clinton on February 16, 1995.

Our thanks to readers of The Fourth R who submitted compelling stories about humanrights training and activities in which they have participated. We are heartened to see somany giving their time, talent, and energy to HRE projects that can make this a betterworld.

We invite you to use this issue of The Fourth R to read more about these projects, seesome of the many organizations doing this important work, learn about internationaltrainings, check out summer courses, and join the new North American Partners in Hu-man Rights Education.

The Editors

UN Decade for Human Rights Education, 1995-2005

Congratulations! On December 9, 1994, as the direct result of advocacy by educators andhuman rights activists from around the world, the UN General Assembly (GA) launchedUN Decade for Human Rights Education, 1995-2005.

The GA resolution #49/184, operative part 11, calls upon international, regional, andnational nongovernmental organizations, in particular those concerned with women, labourdevelopment and the environment as well as all social justice groups, human rights advo-cates, educators, religious organizations and the media, to increase their involvement informal and nonformal education in human rights and to cooperate with the Centre forHuman Rights in implementing the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education.

The international community has created public policy for human rights educationand put it firmly on the international agenda. The ball is now in our court! As educatorsfrom around the world reach out for professional support, very clear request emerges:“Please, join hands in enhancing human rights education specifically in the United States.As the highway of information reaches to all corners of the world, your efforts in humanrights education will inspire the development of a human rights culture worldwide.”

Each one of us who has made a commitment to engage in human rights education is acatalyst for social change. The young people, with whom we can dialogue on democracyas the delivery system of human rights and for whom human rights is to be the valuesystem that informs their lives in dignity with one another, are the leaders of the ThirdMillennium. We owe them our special, undivided attention.

In view of unprecedented political transitions in all and from all directions, the pro-cess of learning about human rights as universal, indivisible and interconnected and asrelevant to people’s daily lives is not a simple one. We all know that there are no easyanswers in the teaching and learning about human rights. However, we need to under-take it and carefully evaluate its results along the way. Thus, it is imperative that weengage in dialogue throughout society of how best we can all abide by the political, civil,economic, social, and cultural contract of human rights.

On the pages of the Fourth R, let’s engage bravely in this essential dialogue abouthuman rights education and its introduction throughout the school system as part of theUN Decade for Human Rights Education. Your letters and specific ideas will be pub-lished. Together, we will go forth in this important path.

Shulamith Koenig, Member of the Editorial Board

Printed on recycled and recyclable paper.

Amnesty International Members JudgePostersWhen members of AIUSA Human Rights Educators’ Network col-laborated with Scholastic magazines for a series of articles on hu-man rights and the UDHR last year, Scholastic also announced ahuman rights poster contest for students in grades 4-8.

At the 1994 Annual General Meeting of AIUSA in Chicago,the 350 Amnesty members attending voted on 50 of the best sub-mitted posters. Several of the posters were also displayed at the AIinformation booth at the National Education Association Conven-tion in New Orleans.

In the December 9, 1994, issues of Junior Scholastic and Scho-lastic News, several of the top posters were printed with an accom-panying story acknowledging AI’s help with the poster contest.

As a resource, class sets for the special issues of Scholasticmagazines highlighting human rights and the UDHR are avail-able for purchase from Scholastic, Inc., by calling 1-800-631-1586.

Introducing Project Human RACEProject Human RACE (Rights, Awareness, Curriculum, Educa-tion) is one of the first human rights curriculum libraries for teach-ers in the nations sponsored by Amnesty International. It willprovide kindergarten through twelfth grade teachers in the Metro-politan School District of Madison, Wisconsin with curriculumand resources to enable them to teach any human rights educationtopic, such as conflict resolution, genocide, peace education, rac-ism, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child,multicultural awareness, and diversity.

Project Human RACE was created as a way to give somethingback to the Madison community, which has been supportive of thelocal AI chapter’s human rights work since it was established in1978. Denise Janssen leads the project and is also the humanrights education coordinator of the Midwest Region, a member ofMadison’s AI chapter, and a teacher in the Madison MetropolitanSchool District.

The goals of Project Human RACE are to provide resourcesthat empower human rights teachers as well as support their ef-forts with additional curriculum materials. These materials, whichare selected by teachers and funded by the local AI chapter, mayalso be used in conjunction with teaching political science, socialstudies, literature, history, economics, and related arts.

If you would like information on how your group can create itsown Project Human RACE, contact Denise Janssen, 608-244-6922.

Seventh Annual Amnesty InternationalStudent Activism Day Held in BostonMore than 500 students from Amnesty International’s NortheastRegion converged on the campus of the University of Massachu-setts at Boston on November 12, 1994, for a day of speakers, work-shops, education, and enjoyment. This seventh annual StudentActivism Day also raised $2,000 to benefit AIUSA and the world-wide movement for human rights.

The event featured appearances by AIUSA volunteers and staff,including speeches by both Heather Wiley, a member of the boardof directors, and Carlos Salinas, government program officer forLatin America and the Caribbean.

Other highlights included a speech by Dorothy Thomas, direc-tor of the Women’s Rights Project at Human Rights Watch, andthe moving personal accounts of both Laila Terzimehic, a Bosnianhigh school student presently residing in the United States, andConstancio Pinto, a refugee from East Timor.

Mr. Pinto’s speech was particularly timely, as he was one of theorganizers of the 1991 protest march at Dili, East Timor, wherehundreds of peaceful demonstrators were killed when Indonesiantroops opened fire. On Student Activism Day, the third anniver-sary of the Santa Cruz massacre was commemorated by partici-pants who heard Pinto describe his experience and pinned coloredflowers to a banner in memory of those who lost their lives.

Students also attended two sessions of workshops that focusedon building skills and raising awareness.

For information, contact Angelina Snodgrass, 617-623-0202.

Students Are Partners in Human RightsEducation through the Teacher-StudentBuddy SystemTeachers can spend great amounts of time and energy researching,planning, and implementing classroom activities that enable theirstudents to develop significant knowledge of human rights and acompassionate and critical human rights consciousness. Such con-sciousness is the life tool with which students will affect positivesocial change in their world. But sometimes no matter how inno-vative the classroom lessons are or how much creative energy teach-ers put into them, such lessons fall short of providing studentswith one of the most important elements of human rights educa-tion: the ability to empower themselves.

In most educational systems, teachers are given the context andthe power to serve as intellectual, social, and cultural mentors totheir students. But what if students were given the opportunity toshare in that role? Could students themselves mentor teachersand in the process positively impact their peers’ learning? Thesequestions were posed by a high school Amnesty group at St. Ignatius

Amnesty International HRE Projects

College Prep in San Francisco. Eager to experiment with a newmodel of cooperative learning, the students recently ventured intocreating the Teacher-Student Buddy System.

The role of buddies is to support teachers in their efforts tobring human rights issues, lessons, and activities into the class-room. Students who volunteer as buddies also collaborate in theteaching process. This may entail researching a topic, country, orissue; identifying resources the teacher can use; supplying theteacher with educational materials or ideas on the subject; andteaching collaboratively.

As a first step in the program, the students sent an interestform to all the teachers at their school. The teachers were able toindicate on the form whether they would benefit from a humanrights buddy throughout the year or from a single speaker. Thenthe students organized a school breakfast for interested teachers––approximately 10 out of a faculty of 90. Together the teachers andbuddies drew outlines of the educational needs and goals of theteachers and formulated plans for their collaborations.

To put together curriculum plans, students went to the libraryin small groups after school and met to give each other ideas andsupport on chosen topics and issues. Topics ranged from the deathpenalty (for those working with religion teachers) to indigenousrights, women’s rights, or specific countries (for those workingwith social studies and foreign language teachers).

It is still early to determine the success of the program. How-ever, it is clear from the level of student and teacher involvement,commitment, and enthusiasm that it promises to be a valuable edu-cational experience for participants.

“In this program,” said Jean Chadbourne, a student buddy whomentors Mr. Kreft, a religion teacher, “I find myself changing froma student to an equal member of a working relationship. It is anovelty for me as a student to discover that a teacher would findmy knowledge useful and important.” Mr. Kreft claims that “work-ing in tandem with my Amnesty student buddy has afforded meaccess to documents, information, and encouragement that I wouldotherwise be unlikely to find. She has been a wonderful asset tothe learning experience both for my students and for myself.”

By creating a context in which teachers can learn from stu-dents and peers can learn from each other, the teacher-student buddymodel fosters a democratic learning environment and compensatesfor some of the structural inequalities that students face in thetraditional school system. The process of student empowermentunfolds naturally, and students’ motivation for learning increasesdramatically when they are presented with the opportunity to usetheir knowledge and expertise effectively to educate others andthemselves.

For further information, contact Susan Ackerman, 415-587-1350.


Celebrate Human Rights!To celebrate the inaugural year of the United Nations Decade forHuman Rights Education, 1995-2005, Partners in Human RightsEducation and AIUSA Human Rights Educators are calling forworks of art and writings by students in grades 4-12. Consider thefollowing media and genre: essay, poetry, short story, poster, litho-graph, all forms of paint, T-shirt design, charcoal, or drama. Lit-erary works should not exceed 1,000 words.

Themes can include rights in general; specific rights such asthose in the U.S. Bill of Rights, the UN Declaration of HumanRights, or the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; prob-lems or successes in an area of the world; rights and responsibili-ties; a celebration of particular freedoms; the voice of youth.

All contributing writers and artists will receive certificates rec-ognizing their contributions to human rights advocacy. Exceptionalentries will be exhibited at Amnesty International USA’s AnnualGeneral Meeting (AGM) in Boston in June.

All entries are due no later than Thursday, June 15, 1995, andbecome the property of the Educators’ Network, AIUSA. For fur-ther information, contact Patrick Manson, 214-617-6933.

Include your name, age, date of birth, address, phone, and nameof school with your entry and send it to the following address:

Celebrate Human Rights!P. O. Box 70Mansfield, MA 02048

Updated HRE Resource Notebooks to beCompleted in June, 1995In 1990, the AIUSA Human Rights Education Steering Commit-tee introduced the first Human Rights Education Resource Note-books, copies of which were placed in all AIUSA offices and withmembers of the Steering Committee. These sets of two large loose-leaf notebooks were organized by content areas (e.g., death pen-alty, refugees, and the rights of children) and contained articlesabout human rights education as well as specific lesson plans andactivities, which could be used in the classroom and in other set-tings.

Steering committee members and staff in some AIUSA officeshave responded to requests for materials from AI members andnon-AI educators in the U.S. and abroad by copying specific sec-tions of the notebooks, with a nominal charge for copying andmailing. Educators’ Network members have utilized the materialsto teach at AI conferences, professional conferences in a variety ofeducational fields, and human rights education workshops aroundthe world.

Recognizing the growing interest in human rights education,the HRE Steering Committee proposed to update the resource note-books. The committee examined the current status of the expand-

ing field of human rights education, which encompasses topicsthat were not included in the original notebooks. The new note-books will provide up-to-date, practical, and comprehensive re-sources in the following 11 content areas: children’s rights, deathpenalty, economic justice, gay and lesbian rights, indigenouspeoples, peace and conflict resolution, race and ethnicity, refu-gees, religious tolerance, the UDHR, and women. These topicsreflect the state of the art, which finds human rights educationincluded within a growing number of subject areas and fields ofstudy. Each section will include an introduction, practical activi-ties, and a list of resources.

In addition to the content-oriented sections, four other sectionswill address specific aspects of human rights education: HRE foryoung children (a holistic approach for building a foundation forhuman rights learning), literature (resources that integrate many


of the content areas), workshop models (the development of hu-man rights educators through participatory workshops), and a hu-man rights education primer (basic information for AIUSA officestaff, volunteer leaders, and local and student group members whomay not be familiar with HRE).

Completed notebooks and individual sections will be availablefor purchase by participants in the AIUSA Annual General Meet-ing (AGM) in Boston June 23-25. In July, the materials will bealso available through AIUSA regional offices, steering commit-tee members, and the North American Partners for Human RightsEducation (NAPHRE) Resource Center at the University of Min-nesota. Special support for this project was supplied by AIUSASpecial Initiatives Fund.

For further information, contact Vienna Colucci, 312-435-6388.

AIUSA Human Rights Educators’ Network has been working foryears to spread the understanding and advocacy of rights to chil-dren and adults. Today more than ever, we need to increase aware-ness and activism. Recognizing the importance of teaching rights,the United Nations has declared 1995-2005 the Decade for Hu-man Rights Education. How can you develop your role as a hu-man rights educator?

1. Become a member of the Educators’ Network and askothers to join. Dues are $10 a year to help pay for TheFourth R, which you receive twice a year. Member-ship also provides a regional network newsletter anda directory of network members in your region. Theseregional resources offer opportunities to coordinateactivities and share ideas.

2. Use the resources that the Educators’ Network offers.The revised, expanded, and updated Human RightsEducation Resource Notebooks will be available inJuly and contain many activities for the classroom andother audiences. Also share your copy of The FourthR with other teachers. Take special note of Vol. 6No. 1, Summer 1994, a valuable resource guide, andthis issue, which can connect you with other humanrights and HRE organizations.

3. Consider membership in the North American Part-ners for Human Rights Education (NAPHRE).NAPHRE membership can enlarge your connectionsto important literature, curricula, organizations, andother services.

AIUSA Human Rights Educators’ Network

Amnesty International:The Struggle for Human RightsAmnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement ofpeople acting on the convictions that governments mustnot deny individuals their basic human rights and thatordinary men and women can effectively pressure gov-ernments to live up to their commitments in human de-cency. The organization was awarded the 1977 NobelPeace Prize for its efforts to promote global observanceof the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. AI’seffectiveness depends on its impartial application of asingle standard of human rights to every country in theworld.

Please expand your role by taking advantage of all the resourcesthe network has to offer. This is an exciting time for HRE, and youare part of it.

A membership renewal mailing was recently sent to all currentnetwork members. If you are not currently a member, contact ViennaColucci, AIUSA, 53 W. Jackson, Room 1162, Chicago, IL 60604,phone 312-435-6388, fax 312-427-2589.

s Indicates areas of focus

The Albert Einstein Institution50 Church StreetCambridge, MA 02138Phone: 617-876-0311Fax: 617-876-0837Contact: Christopher Kruegler, presidents Community outreach/education,research and consulting on nonviolentaction for human rights

Alliances Benefiting Children53 Hillside RoadRutland, VT 05701Phone: 802-773-8712Contact: Neva J. Practico

American Bar Association—Public Education DivisionSpecial Committee on Youth Educationfor Citizenship541 N. Fairbanks CourtChicago, IL 60611-3314Phone: 312-988-5735Fax: 312-988-5032Contact: Paula Nessel, project coordinatorsHuman Rights are explored in a numberof articles that have appeared in UpdateOn Law-Related Education magazine.

American Committee on Africa17 John Street, 12th FloorNew York, NY 10038Phone: 212-962-1210Fax: 212-964-8570E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Mike Fleshman, human rightscoordinator

American Forum for Global Education120 Wall Street, Suite 2600New York, NY 10005Phone: 212-742-8232Fax: 212-742-8752E-Mail: [email protected]

sCurriculum development, communityoutreach/education, teacher training

American Jewish Committee165 E 56th StreetNew York, NY 10020-2746Phone: 212-751-4000Fax: 212-751-4017

Arab World and Islamic Resources andSchool Services1865 Euclid Avenue, Suite 4Berkeley, CA 94709Phone: 510-704-0517Fax: 510-704-0517Contact: Audrey ShabbassCurriculum development, teachertraining

Amnesty International—Canada(English Speaking)214 Montreal Road, 4th FloorVanier, OntarioCanada K1L 8L8Phone: 613-744-7667Fax: 613-746-2411Contact: Hilary Homes

Amnesty International—USA53 West Jackson, Suite 1162Chicago, IL 60604-3606Phone: 312-435-6388Contact: Vienna Colucci

Association for Supervision andCurriculum Development250 North Pitt StreetAlexandria, VA 22314-1453Phone: 703-549-9110Fax: 703-549-3891E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Susan NicklassCurriculum development––globaleducation

B’nai B’rith Canada15 Hove StreetNorth York, OntarioCanada M3H 4Y8Phone: 416-633-6224Fax: 416-630-2159Contact: Dr. Karen MocksCurriculum development, communityoutreach/education

Bay Area Global Education ProgramInstitute of International StudiesLittlefield Center, Room 14Stanford UniversityStanford, CA 94305-5013Phone: 415-725-1482Fax: 415-723-6784E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Tuckie YirchottsTeacher training/professional develop-ment

HRE Organizations and Projects

“Civic Declaration” Calls for a New CitizenshipThe Center for Democracy and Citizenship at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute ofPublic Affairs, University of Minnesota, has ongoing programs with human rightsand citizenship responsibilities in their core. Project Public Life’s Public Achieve-ment program develops citizenship leaders of all ages in schools and communitiesthrough a variety of learning experiences, including workshops and classes. Par-ticipants learn that citizenship is more than obeying the rules, and they developskills and strategies for solving public problems.

“Civic Declaration: A Call for a New Citizenship” is a recently published docu-ment outlining the new citizenship project of the American Civic Forum. Theauthors of the “Civic Declaration” argue it is not only our right but our responsibil-ity to have government by and of the people and not simply government for thepeople.

For further information, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to the Centerfor Democracy and Citizenship, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, 301 19thAve. So., Minneapolis, MN 55455.

Bread for the World1100 Wayne Avenue, Suite 1000Silver Spring, MD 20910Phone: 301-608-2400Fax: 301-608-2401

Campaign for Peace and DemocracyP.O. Box 1640, Cathedral StationNew York, NY 10025Phone: 212-666-5924Fax: 212-662-5892E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Nicole Hala, administrativedirector, Joanne LandrysCommunity outreach/education, publicconferences/forums/teach-ins

Canadian Human Rights Foundation1425 Rene Levesque OuestSuite 307Montreal, QuebecCanada H3G 1T7Phone: 514-954-0382Fax: 514-954-0659Contact: Ruth Selwyn

Canadian Teachers’ Foundation110 Argyle AvenueOttawa, OntarioCanada K2P 1B4Phone: 613-232-1505Fax: 613-232-1886E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Damian SolomonsAdvisory committees

Catholic Charities1400 West 9th StreetLos Angeles, CA 90015Phone: 213-251-3460Fax: 213-251-3444Contact: Mr. Loc Nam Nguyen, director,immigration and refugee departmentsCommunity outreach/education, refugeeresettlement, and political asylum

Center for Civic Education5146 Douglas Fir RoadCalabasas, CA 91302Phone: 818-591-9321Fax: 818-591-9330Contact: Margaret Stimmann BransosCurriculm development, teacher train-ing, school-based programs, developedthe national standards for civics andgovernment

Center for Democracy and CitizenshipHubert H. Humphrey Institute of PublicAffairsUniversity of Minnesota301 19th Avenue SouthMinneapolis, MN 55455Phone: 612-625-5509Contact: Harry BoyteSee box, page 6

Center for Global and EnvironmentalEducationHamline University1536 Hewitt AvenueSt. Paul, MN 55104Phone: 612-641-2810Fax: 612-641-2987E-Mail: [email protected]


Human Rights Education Newsletter Produced inEnglandThe Education in Human Rights Network (EIHRN), an informal group of individu-als and organizations concerned with human rights education, was established inEngland in 1987. The network publishes a periodical, the Human Rights EducationNewsletter, which covers news, events, and resources. Special sections of the 20-page publication are devoted to topics such as other organizations’ newsletters andcampaigns.

To obtain copies of the Human Rights Education Newsletter, submit items, orreceive further information, contact Margot Brown, editor, University College ofRipon and York St. John, Lord Mayor’s Walk, York, England Y03 7EX. For furtherinformation about the network, contact Hugh Starkey, secretary, EIHR Network,Westminster College, Oxford, England.

Center for Global EducationAugsburg College2211 Riverside AvenueMinneapolis, MN 55454Phone: 612-330-1159Fax: 612-330-1695E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Don ChristensensStudy abroad programs with a humanrights component

Center for Immigration Rights, Inc.48 Saint Marks PlaceNew York, NY 10003Phone: 212-505-6890Fax: 212-995-5876Contact: Ursula Levelt, director ofeducationsCommunity outreach/education

Center for Migration Studies209 Flagg StreetStaten Island, NY 10304-1199Phone: 718-351-8800Fax: 718-667-4598E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Lydio F. ThomassCurriculum development, teachertraining

CRADLE (Center for Research andDevelopment in Law-RelatedEducation)Wake Forest University Law SchoolP.O. Box 7206 Reynolda StationWinston-Salem, NC 27109Phone: 800-437-1054, 910-721-3355Fax: 910-721-3353E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Julia P. HardinsCurriculum development, teachertraining

Center for Teaching InternationalRelationsUniversity of DenverDenver, CO 80208Phone: 303-871-3106Fax: 303-871-2906Contact: Peter DowningsCurriculum development, communityoutreach/education, teacher training,school-based programs, global educationpublications

Center for the Study of Human RightsColumbia University1108 International Affairs BuildingNew York, NY 10027Phone: 212-854-2479Fax: 212-316-4578E-Mail: [email protected]

sCurriculum development, teachertraining

Children’s Creative Response toConflict ProgramFellowship of ReconciliationBox 271Nyack, NY 10960Phone: 914-358-4601, 914-353-1796Fax: 914-358-4924Contact: Priscilla PrutzmansCurriculum development, communityoutreach/education, teacher training,school-based programs

Phone: 415-552-1250Fax: 415-626-0595E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Rebecca Iverson, programscoordinatorsCurriculum development, communityoutreach/education, teacher training,school-based programs

Cultural Survival46 Brattle StreetCambridge, MA 02138Phone: 617-441-5400Fax: 617-441-5417sCurriculum development, communityoutreach/education

Diversity Resource CollaborativePacker Collegiate Institute170 Joralemon StreetBrooklyn, NY 11201Phone: 718-875-1363Fax: 718-875-1363Contact: Susan HinklesCurriculum development, communityoutreach/education, teacher training,school-based programs, creating diversity-on-line-network

Education in Human Rights NetworkWestminster CollegeOxford, EnglandContact: Hugh Starkey, secretarySee box, page 7


The Children’s Museum300 Congress Street, Museum WharfBoston, MA 02210-1034Phone: 617-426-6500; “What’s up line”617-426-8855Fax: 617-426-1944Contact: Kathleen Aiello, director ofpublic relations and marketingsCommunity outreach/education, teachertraining, school-based programs, andexhibits

Church World ServiceOffice on Global Education2115 N. Charles StreetBaltimore, MD 21218Phone: 410-727-6106Fax: 410-727-6108Contact: Thomas L. HampsonsCurriculum development, resourcematerials on social justice

Congressional Human RightsFoundation1056 Thomas Jefferson Street NWWashington, DC 20007-3813Phone: 202-333-1407Fax: 202-333-1275E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Sean MaysEducation of parliamentarians on humanrights issues

Community Board Program1540 Market Street, Suite 490San Francisco, CA 94102

Children Prepare for 1995 World SummitFor more than a year, children ages 8-18 all over the world have been attendingpreparatory meetings to learn about the United Nations as part of the 1995 WorldSummit of Children project. In June 1995, when the UN will be celebrating itsfiftieth anniversary, these young citizens will meet in approximately 20 internationalsites. They will interact through telecommunications to prepare three documents––a proposal for a young general assembly to become part of the UN, a proposal for aninternational day for children to interact with local and global leaders, and an inter-national report about how governments are keeping their promises to children.

You can help with fund raising by becoming a “global partner.” For furtherinformation, contact Ellen Brogren, Peaceways, 415-340-8940.

Educators for Social Responsibility23 Garden StreetCambridge, MA 02138Phone: 617-492-1764Fax: 617-864-5164Contact: Nichole Lawton, executiveassistantsCurriculum development, teachertraining, school-based programs, conflictresolution/violence prevention

Facing History and Ourselves16 Hurd StreetBrookline, MA 02146Phone: 617-232-1595Fax: 617-232-0281Contact: Marc SkvirskysCurriculum development, communityoutreach/education, teacher training,school-based programs

Florida Coalition for Peace and JusticeP. O. Box 2486Orlando, FL 32802Phone: 407-422-3479

Foreign Policy Association729 Seventh StreetNew York, NY 10019-6860Phone: 212-746-4050Fax: 212-302-6123Contact: Joy SchaefersCurriculum development, communityoutreach and education teacher training,school-based programs.

Freedom House120 Wall Street, Floor 26New York, NY 10005Phone: 212-514-8040Fax: 212-514-8050and1319 18th Street NW Floor 2Washington, DC 20036-1802Phone: 202-296-5101Fax: 202-296-5078Contact: Charles J. BrownsCurriculum development, teachertraining, school-based programs

Global Education Associates475 Riverside Drive, Suite 1848New York, NY 10115


Phone: 212-870-3290Fax: 212-870-2729

Global Education MarinLibrary 211, Dominican College50 Acacia AvenueSan Rafael, CA 94901Phone: 415-485-3286Fax: 415-485-3205Contact: Alice BartholomewsCurriculum development, teachertraining, resource library for K-12teachers

Guatemala Human RightsCommission—USA3321 12th Street NEWashington, DC 20017Phone: 202-529-6599Fax: 202-526-4611E-mail: [email protected]

sCommunity outreach/education, variouscampaigns in support of students inGuatemala

Holocaust Center7900 Northaven RoadDallas, TX 75230Phone: 214-750-4654

Human Rights Advocacy ProgramUtica College of Syracuse University1600 Burrstone RoadUtica, NY 13502-4892Phone: 315-792-3267Fax: 315-792-3381, 315-792-3392sCommunity outreach/education, humanrights advocacy teaching

Human Rights Internet8 York Street, Suite 202Ottawa, ONCanada K1N 5S6Phone: 613-789-7407Fax: 613-789-7414E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Lucie BerniersCommunity outreach/education, net-working, human rights syllabi publishing

Children Fold Paper Birds of PeaceA “citizenship of peacemaking” project was initiated ten years ago in response tomedia inquiries to American children at Hiroshima International School. Duringthe fortieth commemoration of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima children werestunned by reporters’ questions: “Do the hibakusha (bomb victims) resent you livingin Hiroshima?” “Do you feel guilty as Americans living here?” “What do you kids dofor peace?”

As residents of the International City of Peace and Culture, the students wereespecially bothered by the last question. So they decided to start a club and write abooklet telling other children why the paper crane was significant to Hiroshima.They invited children around the world to learn how to fold paper cranes, teachothers, and send a thousand cranes to Hiroshima, where they would be taken to thechildren’s monument in Peace Park and photographed. The originating classroomor school then was sent a certificate.

Supported by UNESCO, the club spread worldwide. Today, it is known as theBirds of Peace Project sponsored by the United Nations Association of the UnitedStates of America (UNA–USA). The project has expanded its mission to maintainand sustain school communities as international peace sites and UNA partnershipschools with a commitment to the UDHR.

For further information, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Birds of Peace,United Nations Association, 1929 S. Fifth St., Minneapolis, MN 55454.

Human Rights Program, TownsendCenter for the HumanitiesUniversity of California460 Stephens HallBerkeley, CA 94720-2340Phone: 510-642-0965Fax: 510-643-5284E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Rita Maran, associate directorsCurriculum development

Human Rights Watch485 Fifth AvenueNew York, NY 10017Phone: 212-972-8400Fax: 212-972-0905E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Robert KimzeysReport publishing

Human Rights Watch/Africa1522 K Street, NWWashington, DC 20005Phone: 202-371-6592Fax: 202-371-0124E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Janet Fleischman

Human Rights Watch/America485 5th Avenue, 3rd FloorNew York, NY 10017-6104Phone: 212-972-0905Fax: 212-972-0905Contact: Development Office

Human Rights Watch/Asia485 5th Avenue, 3rd FloorNew York, NY 10017-6104Phone: 212-972-8400Fax: 212-972-0905E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Jennifer HymansCommunity outreach/education

Indian Law Resource Center601 E Street SEWashington, DC 20003Phone: 202-547-2800Fax: 202-547-2803Contact: Curtis Berkey

Institute for Democracy in EducationOhio University313 McCraken HallAthens, OH 45701-2979

Phone: 614-593-4531Fax: 614-593-0177E-mail: [email protected]

Contact: Jeanann HuntsCommunity outreach/education, teachertraining, school-base programs

Institute for the Study of GenocideJohn Jay College of Criminal JusticeCity University of New York899 Tenth AvenueNew York, NY 10019

Institute for Women, Law, andDevelopment733 15th Street, NW, Suite 700Washington, DC 20005Phone: 202-393-3663Fax: 202-393-3664Contact: Katherine CullitonsOutreach/education on women’s humanrights

International Association of Educatorsfor World Peace2 Bloor Street W, 100-209Toronto, Ontario M4W3E2Phone: 416-924-4449Fax: 416-924-4094E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Mitchell L. GoldsCurriculum development, communityoutreach/education

International CatholicChild Bureau, Inc.866 United Nationa Plaza, Suite 529New York, NY 10017Phone: 212-355-3992Fax: 212-754-4674Contact: Meg Gardinier, executivedirectorsCurriculm development, communityoutreach/education, teacher training, UNadvocacy for children and their families


Partners in Human Rights Education Teach K-12ChildrenMore than a hundred three-person teams of lawyers, teachers, and community rep-resentatives currently teach human rights in K-12 classrooms in the Midwest throughPartners in Human Rights Education.

The project’s goals are to provide a universally accepted human rights valuesframework for students to begin questioning how to make the world a better placeand to support teachers in facilitating an environment that encourages students torespect human dignity and become agents of change.

Team members are matched according to their preferred student age group, timeavailability, and school location and are provided with materials and access to re-source experts. They participate in human rights education training and developand organize their own human rights team approach, including the schedule, les-sons, and methodology.

In addition, the Partners Project has worked with the St. Paul Pioneer Press tocreate a human rights newspaper supplement for students and has helped to developa year-long series of children’s human rights spots for Radio AAHS.

The Partners Project was established by the Minnesota Advocates for HumanRights and the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center in 1992.

For further information, contact the Human Rights Center, 612-626-0041.

International Child Resource Institute1810 Hopkins StreetBerkeley, CA 94707Phone: 510-644-1000Fax: 510-525-4106Contact: Ken Jaffe, executive directorsCurriculum development, communityoutreach/education, teacher training,school-based programs, internationalhealth (maternal/child health), childabuse and advocacy

International Commission of JuristsAmerican Association for ICJ777 UN PlazaNew York, NY 10017Phone: 212-972-0883Fax: 212-755-2991Contact: William J. Butler, president

International Development ExchangeSchool Program Coordinator827 Valencia Street, Suite 101San Francisco, CA 94110Phone: 415-824-8384Fax: 415-824-8387E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Julie VeltmansCurriculum development, communityoutreach/education, teacher training,school-based programs

International Education Consortium3157 Olive Spur RoadSt. Louis, MO 63141Phone: 314-576-3535Fax: 314-576-4996Contact: Dennis R. LubecksCurriculm development, communityoutreach/education, teacher training

International Human Rights InternshipProgram, Institute of InternationalEducation1400 Street NW, Suite 650Washington, DC 20005Phone: 202-682-6540Fax: 202-842-1219Contact: Ann Blyberg

International Human Rights LawGroup1601 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 700Washington, DC 20009Phone: 202-232-8500Fax: 202-232-6731E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Leanna HuttonsCommunity outreach/education

International Labor Rights Educationand Research FundP.O. Box 74100 Maryland Avenue NEWashington, DC 20002Phone: 202-544-7198Fax: 202-543-5999

E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Pharis HarveysCommunity outreach/education, re-sources on labor rights

International League for Human Rights432 Park Avenue S #1103New York, NY 10016Phone: 212-684-1221Fax: 212-684-1696Contact: Charles H. NorchisOutreach to indigenous

International Rescue Committee122 East 42nd Street, 12th FloorNew York, NY 10168-1289Phone: 212-551-3000


Dianna Brueggenan, 7th graderComnack, NY


Phone: 202-462-5251Fax: 202-462-4941E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Bernard Hamilton, directorsCurriculum development, communityoutreach and education, human rightsawareness

National Association for the Educationof Young Children1509 16th Street NWWashington, DC 20036-1426Phone: 800-424-2460,202-232-8777Fax: 202-328-1846Contact: Pat Spahr

National Center for Youth Law114 Sansome Street, Suite 900San Francisco, CA 94104Phone: 415-543-3307Fax: 415-956-9024


Middle East Research and InformationProject500 Massachusetts Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20005Phone: 202-223-3677Fax: 202-223-3604E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Esther MervessUpdates in countries of the Middle East

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights400 Second Avenue South, Suite 1050Minneapolis, MN 55401-2408Phone: 612-341-3302Fax: 612-341-2971E-mail: [email protected]

Contact: Barbara Frey, executive directorSee box, page 10

Minority Rights Group–Washington1528 18th Street, NWWashington, DC 20036

Joan B. Kroc Institute for InternationalPeace StudiesNotre Dame UniversityBox 639Notre Dame, Indiana 46566Phone: 219-631-6970Fax: 219-631-6973Contact: Raimo Vayrynen

La Escuela Fratney3255 N. Fratney StreetMilwaukee, WI 53212Phone: 414-264-4840Fax: 414-264-4840 (ask to be transferred)Contact: Carol Schmuhl, principalsCurriculum development

Las Palomas De TaosP.O. Box 3400Taos, NM 55455Phone: 505-758-9456Fax: 505-751-0431Contact: George OtovosCommunity outreach/education, school-based programs, conference facilitation

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights330 7th Avenue, 10th FloorNew York, NY 10001Phone: 212-629-6170Fax: 212-967-0916E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Stefanie Grant, director ofprogram and policy

Meiklejohn Civil Liberties InstituteBox 673Berkeley, CA 94701-0673Phone: 510-848-0599Fax: 510-848-6008E-Mail: [email protected] [email protected]

Contacts: Ann Fagan Ginger and AnnePaxton WagleysCurriculum development, communityoutreach/education, school-based pro-grams, community education on interna-tional human rights law, legal educationon international human rights law

Citizens Lobby for the Convention on the Rights of theChildOn February 16, 1995, President Clinton signed the Convention on the Rights of theChild. To be ratified by the U.S., the convention now needs a two-thirds majorityvote in the Senate.

To assist in ratification, a U.S. lobby campaign of youth in each state is beingorganized by Voices of the Next Generation in preparation for the 1995 World Sum-mit of Children.

Grassroots action models of RESULTS, Alliances Benefiting Children, and Voicesof the Next Generation, along with educational materials from Child Rights Interna-tional Research Institute, Coalition for Children of the Earth, UNICEF, and the UnitedNations Association of Minnesota are being used.

For information on how to participate in the lobby, contact Glenna Voegle, Voicesof the Next Generation, 405-946-9343.

Children’s Peace Garden to be DedicatedIn August 1995, the Children’s Peace Garden will be dedicated in Los Alamos, NewMexico, site of the creation of the nuclear bomb. The goal of the project is to makea formal, unified commitment for peace and to join as one in the promise to continueworking together for justice and respect for life.

This monument is designed as a sister statue to Genbaku No Ko No Zo (Monu-ment for A-Bombed Children), the one in Hiroshima funded by Japanese children.

For further information, contact Glenna Voegle, Voices of the Next Generation,405-946-9343.


National Seed Project on InclusiveCurriculumCenter for Research on WomenWellesley CollegeWellesley, MA 02181Phone: 617-283-2520Fax: 617-283-2504Contact: Peggy McIntoshsCurriculum development, teachertraining, school-based programs

National Student Campaign AgainstHunger and Homelessness29 Temple StreetBoston, MA 02111Phone: 800-No-HungerFax: 617-292-8057Contact: Jennifer JonessCurriculum development, communityoutreach/education, school-based pro-grams

National Women’s History Project7738 Bell RoadWindsor, CA 95492-8518Phone: 708-838-6000Fax: 707-838-0478Contact: Mary Ruthsdotter

Network of Educators on the Americas1118 22nd Street NWWashington, DC 20037Phone: 202-429-0137Fax: 202-429-9766E-Mail: [email protected]

sCurriculum development, teachertraining

Office on Global Education2125 Charles StreetBaltimore, MD 21218Phone: 410-727-6106Fax: 410-727-6108Contact: Rose M. DowningsCurriculum development, communityoutreach/education, teacher training

The Ohio State UniversityMershon Center1501 Neil CenterColumbus, OH 43201Phone: 611-292-1681Fax: 614-292-2407Contact: Wynn KimblesCurriculum development, teachertraining, school-based programs inPoland and Lithuania

The Ontario Institute for Studies andEducation252 Bloor Street WestToronto, OntarioCanada M5S 1V6Phone: 416-923-6641Fax: 416-926-4725E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Dieter Misgeld, extension 2521sCurriculum development, communityoutreach/education, teacher training, theGraduate School in Education of theUniversity of Toronto

Organizing Committee of the People’sDecade of Human Rights Education(PDHRE)526 West 111th Street,Suite 4ENew York, NY 10025Phone: 212-749-3156Fax: 212-666-6325Contact: Shulamith KoenigsCurriculum development, training ofteachers, and community outreach/education

Oxfam America26 West StreetBoston, MA 02111-1206Phone: 617-482-1211Fax: 617-728-2594Contact: Susan RittersCommunity outreach/education

Contact: Josie JimenezsPublishes Youth Law News six times ayear

National Coalition Building Institute1835 K Street, NWWashington, DC 20006Phone: 202-785-9400Fax: 202-785-3385Contact: Cherie BrownsTeacher training in prejudice reductionand conflict resolution, school-basedprograms in prejudice reduction andconflict resolution

National Conference for Christiansand Jews15 Broad Street, Suite 505Boston, MA 02109Phone: 617-227-9155Fax: 617-227-9487Contact: Susan Musinsky, executivedirectorsCommunity outreach/education, teachertraining, school-based programs

National Education AssociationOffice of International Relations1201 16th Street, NWWashington, DC 20036-03290Phone: 202-822-7488Fax: 202-822-7974Contact: John De MarssCurriculum development, communityoutreach/education, teacher training

National Institute for Citizen Educationin the Law (NICEL)711 G Street SEWashington, D.C. 20003Phone: 202-546-6644Fax: 202-546-6649E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Meg Satterthwaite, assistant forinternational programssCurriculum development, training oftrainers and teachers in law, humanrights, and democracy education


Peace Education NowP.O. Box 4157Gainesville, FL 32613Phone: 904-376-0642Fax: 904-376-0414, 904-372-2049E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: Sue Blythe, executive directorsCurriculum development, communityoutreach/education, teachertraining, school-based pro-grams, computer networkeducation

Peaceways342 Catalpa Avenue, #318San Mateo, CA 94401Phone/fax: 415-340-8940Contact: Ellen BrogrenSee box, page 8

PEN American Center568 BroadwayNew York, NY 10012Phone: 212-334-1660Fax: 212-334-2181E-Mail: [email protected]

Contacts: Siobhan Daod, director; LamiaMatta, coordinatorsCommunity outreach/education, school-based human rights education program

People for the American Way2000 M. Street NW, #400Washington, DC 20036Phone: 202-467-4999Fax: 202-293-2672Contact: Deanna DubysCommunity outreach/education

Project SMART (School Mediator’sAlternative Resolution Team)c/o Victim’s Service Agency280 Broadway Room 401New York, NY 10007Phone: 212-577-1370sSchool-based programs, mediation

Refugee Voices3041 4th Street NEWashington, DC 20017-1102Phone: 202-832-0020Fax: 202-832-5616Contact: Barbara KarlsCommunity outreach/education, school-based programs

Rethinking Schools1001 East Keefe AvenueMilwaukee, WI 53212Phone: 414-964-9646Fax: 414-964-7220sArticles

Science and Human Rights Program ofthe American Association for theAdvancement of Science1333 H Street, NWWashington, DC 20005Phone: 202-326-6790Fax: 202-289-4950E-Mail: [email protected]

Simon Wiesenthal Center9760 West Pico Blvd.Los Angeles, CA 90035Phone: 310-553-9036Fax: 310-553-4521E-Mail: [email protected] [email protected]

Contact: Aura ShapirosCurriculum development,community outreach/education

Social Science EducationConsortium3300 Mitchell Lane, Suite 240Boulder, CO 80301-2272Phone: 303-492-8154Fax: 303-449-3925Contacts: Lynn Parisi andBarbara MillersCurriculum development

Social Studies DevelopmentCenterIndiana University2805 E. 10th Street, Room120

Bloomington, Indiana 47405Phone: 812-855-3838Fax: 812-855-0455E-Mail: [email protected]

Contact: John J. PatricksCurriculum development, teachertraining

Stanford Program on International andCross-Cultural EducationStanford UniversityLittlefield Center, Room 14Stanford, CA 94305-5013Phone: 800-578-1114, 415-723-1114E-Mail:[email protected]

sCurriculum development

United Nations Association ofMinnesota1929 South Fifth StreetMinneapolis, MN 55454Phone: 612-333-2824Contact: Mary Eileen Sorenson

Children Bear Torch of HopeAs the 1995 World Summit of Children draws to a

close on June 27, the United Nations Peace Torch, usedin the 1986 First Earth Run, will be lighted. During thefollowing twelve weeks this symbolic torch will be car-ried by children from U.S. city to city and reach NewYork City for the opening of the fiftieth session of theUN General Assembly.

You and your schools, churches, youth groups, andcivic organizations are invited to help organize a torchevent in your community and participate as torch bear-ers. For further information, contact Jan Pritts, YouthBuilders, 309-452-8829.

sCurriculum development, communityoutreach/education, teacher training,school-based programsSee box, page 9

United Nations Association of the USA485 Fifth AvenueNew York, NY 10017Phone: 212-697-3232Fax: 212-682-9185E-mail: [email protected]

Contact: James P. Muldoon, Jr.sCurriculum development

United States Holocaust MemorialMuseum Education Department—Resource Center for Educators100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SWWashington, DC 2004-2150Phone: 202-488-2661Fax: 202-488-6137E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

sResource Center for Educators, curricu-lum development, community outreach/education, teacher training, school-basedprograms

University of Minnesota HumanRights Center437 Law Center229 - 19th Avenue SouthMinneapolis, MN 55455Phone 612-626-0041Fax: 612-625-2011E-Mail: HUMANRTS.TC.UMN.EDU

Contacts: Kristi Rudelius-Palmer andDavid Weissbrodt, directorssCurriculum development, training oftrainers, school-based programs, K-12curriculum librarySee box, page 10

Voices of the Next GenerationP. O. Box 12881Oklahoma City, OK 73157-2881Phone/fax: 405-946-9343Contact: Glenna VoegleSee box, page 12


Wayne State University Center forPeace and Conflict Studies2320 Faculty/Administration BuildingDetroit, MI 48202Phone: 313-577-3453Fax: 313-577-8269Contact: Adam AvrushinsCurriculum development, communityoutreach/education, teacher training,school-based programs

Wilmington College Peace ResourceCenterPyle Center, Box 1183Wilmington, OH 45177Phone: 513-382-5338E-mail: [email protected]

sProviding resources nationwide by mailorder

Western International StudiesConsortiumImmaculate Heart College Center425 Shatto Place, Suite 401Los Angeles, CA 90020Phone: 213-386-3116Fax: 213-386-6334Contact: Jonathon Weil, directorsCurriculum development, teachertraining, school-based programs

Woman’s International League forPeace and Freedom1213 Race StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19107-1691Phone: 215-563-7110Fax: 215-563-5527E-mail: [email protected]

Contact:Pamela Jones-Burnley or Carol V.MooresCommunity outreach/education, summerpeace camps

World Affairs Council of Philadelphia1314 Chestnut StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19107Phone: 215-731-1100Fax: 215-731-1111

Contact: Margaret H. LonzettasCurriculum development, communityoutreach/education, teacher training,school-based programs

World Council for Curriculum andInstructionUniversity of CincinnatiCollege of EducationP. O. Box 210002Cincinnati, OH 45221-0002Phone: 513-556-3573Fax: 513-556-2483Contact: Estela C. Matriano, executivedirectorsCurriculum development

World Goodwill113 University Place, 11th FloorP.O. Box 722 Cooper StationNew York, NY 10276Phone: 212-982-8770Contact: Ida UrsosCommunity outreach/education

World Order Model Project475 Riverside Drive, Room 246New York, NY 10115Phone: 212-870-2391Fax: 212-870-2392E-mail: [email protected]

Contact: Dr. Robert ZubersCommunity outreach/education, teachertraining

Youth Builders408 Warren AvenueNormal, Illinois 61761Phone: 309-452-8829Fax: 309-454-4445Contact: Jan PrittsSee box, page 14

women, and children. Every day the workshop participants broughthyacinths, tulips, or roses for their teachers and participated withenthusiasm.

Following the workshops, Flowers and Moore developed achecklist for trainers doing human rights education workshops athome or abroad and field tested their plan.

For further information, contact Ellen Moore, 303-440-0913.

Flowers Teaches Human Rights in GazaIn October 1994, Nancy Flowers was invited by Ghassan Abdullah,head of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Education(PCHRE), to present human rights workshops for Arab educatorsin the towns of Hebron, Ramallah, Gaza, and Nablus. The timingwas opportune because authority for schools in the West Bank andGaza had been passed to Palestinians only weeks before. One ofFlowers’ most moving experiences, repeated in every town, wasthe sight of children lined up in school yards to sing the nationalanthem and raise the flag. These acts were previously forbidden.

In addition to international human rights and appropriate meth-odologies, a primary focus of the workshop was democratizationof Palestinian schools. Participants discussed such topics as cor-poral punishment, student and parent councils, and how to giveteachers a voice in policy making.

Because most Palestinians were likely to have personally expe-rienced human rights abuses, participants were provided with smalljournals and asked to record their ideas, associations, and responses.Although these journals were strictly private, many participantsexpressed appreciation for this activity. Each participant also re-ceived a packet of resource materials in Arabic prepared by PCHRE.

This program has unusual potential for success. Local educa-tional authorities seem eager to introduce human rights into theschools, and PCHRE has attracted local leadership. Flowers wasespecially impressed with the commitment, skill, and energy ofPalestinian educators, all of whom had experienced long years ofthe Intifada, most of whose warriors were kids with rocks, oftentheir own students.

For further information, contact Nancy Flowers [email protected] or 415-857-0812.

Guyana Embarks on Human RightsEducation EffortAI-Guyana and the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA)have embarked on an ambitious human rights education effort.With encouragement from the Ministry of Education, they are edu-cating teachers about human rights, developing their skills in teach-ing human rights, creating curriculum for the Guyana context,and training trainers who will work with others throughout thecountry. Alim Husein of AI and Merle Mendonca of GHRA haveprovided the leadership for this project.

This section focuses on Human Rights Education trainingsby individuals from the United States. In future issues, wewill highlight educators from throughout the world train-ing in the United States and other countries.

HRE Workshops Held in SlovakiaIn August 1994, Beverly Edmonds (AI Children’s Network) andDave Donahue (AI Educators’ Network) presented a three-daychildren’s rights workshop in Bratislava, Slovakia, and a one-dayworkshop in Rimavska Sobata, Slovakia. The workshops wereorganized by the Milan Šimecka Foundation (MSF) in Bratislava.

The Bratislava workshop ended with teachers developing cur-ricula appropriate to their own schools. For example, a group ofteachers from SŠala, Slovakia, created lessons to prepare theirschool for integrating students with disabilities who would jointhe school community in the fall after having attended a separateschool.

Throughout 1994, MSF held a series of 12 workshops on hu-man rights for teachers at different sites in Slovakia. Teacherswho attended the initial workshops are now ready to teach theircolleagues about human rights, expanding the network of humanrights educators.

For further information, contact Dave Donahue [email protected] or 510-465-2013.

Romanians Participate in HRE WorkshopsIn early February 1994, Nancy Flowers, former chair of the Am-nesty International Educators’ Network, and Ellen Moore of theAIUSA Urgent Action Network were asked to run two three-dayworkshops for teachers and school administrators in Romania. Theoverall project was the vision of SIRDO, the Independent Societyfor Human Rights in Romania, overseen by Ligia Neacsu and FelicaTibbitts, and underwritten by the Dutch Helzinki Committee.

Flowers and Moore were temporary employees of the UnitedStates Government as part of the United States InformationAgency’s Academic Specialist Program. They put together a skel-etal plan for three days of hands-on experiential modules. Once inBucharest they worked with a team of Romanian activists, teach-ers, and translators developing each section of the program.

They used videos, panels, work stations, discussion groups,mock lessons, and journal-keeping to teach the nearly 60 partici-pants in each workshop. Participants searched the local Roma-nian press for stories with human rights themes of “rights denied,”“rights in conflict,” “rights exercised,” and “rights protected.” Theyshared Romanian proverbs, adages, and folk tales, and analyzedthe human rights themes in them. They discussed the state ofhuman rights among vilified groups in Romania: gypsies, Hun-garian Romanians, former Communists, Jews, Serbs, Turks,

International HRE Training Activities


In April 1994, a three-day training session for 40 teachers, ad-ministrators, and ministry officials was held in Georgetown,Guyana. David Shiman and Krishanti Dharmaraj of AIUSA werethe trainers. Ministry of Education officials from Barbados,Trinidad-Tobago, Grenada, and Jamaica were invited and partici-pated in the workshop. The Minister of Education indicated strongsupport for human rights education in the final public session,which was attended by more than 100 people. This workshopreceived materials from Save the Children, and AIUSA Commit-tee on International Development funded the trainer’s travel ex-penses.

A follow-up workshop in August 1994 involved eight educa-tors and Shiman, who developed curriculum to be pilot tested inearly 1995. Another workshop, planned for August 1995, willfocus on revising the materials and training trainers to continuethe human rights education work.

For additional information, contact Merle Mendonca, 592-61789.

HRE Workshop Held in BermudaA trip to Bermuda had its desired tonic effect for Patrick Manson—especially coming at semester’s end for a fifth and sixth gradeteacher. But Manson said it also awakens one to the reality thatBermudians, latter-day beneficiaries of British colonialism, are qui-etly searching for economic and racial fairness while living underthe umbrella of institutions that maintain the status quo.

Courtesy of Amnesty International Bermuda, Manson visitedthe island of pink sand and motor scooters in the summer of 1994to present lessons and materials to 13 high school teachers, all ofwhom were new to human rights education but somewhat awareof Amnesty International. The lessons were standard introductoryones emphasizing the “discovery” of rights on the part of students,the UDHR, children’s actions, what high schoolers can do, andthe role of AI.

Early on, however, Manson became aware that the educationalsystem in Bermuda, which is based on European-style teaching,has kept economically and racially marginalized youth from get-ting into higher education. Pre-teens take a test that slates themfor either the “academic” or the “non-academic” track, and theylive with the result of that test for the rest of their lives. As aconsequence, those who sometimes need that critical adolescentperiod to become more fully proficient in language and numbersare not given the opportunity to prove that they are “college mate-rial.”

Though the teachers at the workshop were of diverse back-grounds, the students in their high schools had already been di-vided along class and racial lines by the test. All of the teacherswere sensitive to the problem, but ironically they had never opened

up classroom discussion to address the resentment and bitternessthey saw in some young Bermudians. Students with non-academicdiplomas, for instance, just take an additional year at BermudaCollege, although they have often been accepted at colleges in theU.S. on a four-year basis. In the last segment of the workshop,participants focused on ways they could use human rights educa-tion in the context of Bermuda’s institutional reality.

For further information, contact Patrick Manson [email protected] or 214-617-6933.

South African HRE Programs DevelopedThe long history of egregious human rights violations in SouthAfrica led the National Institute for Citizen Education in the Law(NICEL), based in Washington, D.C., to form partnerships withthree South African organizations aimed at promoting human rightseducation. NICEL, Lawyers for Human Rights, the Street LawProgramme, and the Community Law Centre (CLC) developed

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two innovative human rights education programs aimed at expand-ing training in human rights to populations that had been fre-quently overlooked in earlier South African HRE efforts.

A partnership between NICEL, Lawyers for Human Rights, andthe South African Street Law Programme yielded the innovativetext entitled Human Rights for All. Drawing heavily on the expe-rience of U.S. educators experienced in teaching about the Holo-caust, this text differs in focus from available human rights educa-tion materials. Instead of looking primarily at specific humanrights issues such as torture or the death penalty, this text teachesabout the meaning of human rights, the idea of environmentalrights, and the right to development. The text employs an ap-proach NICEL has used in all of its educational materials: it teachesstudents what existing international standards are and then asksparticipants to debate issues openly. Human rights issues are ex-plored through participatory activities.

Another text produced by the partnership in South Africa cameabout from the Community Law Centre’s commitment to conduct-ing HRE with adults in rural community settings. The long dis-tances human rights trainers have to travel to conduct workshops,as well as literacy problems, language and cultural differences,and the inadequacies of the Human Rights for All text to meet theneeds of rural South Africans made this type of education difficult.

Already adept at finding solutions to these dilemmas, the CLC

enlisted NICEL’s assistance in the creation of a text to be used incommunity settings with rural South Africans. The book uses largecartoons to illustrate each article of the UDHR and includes a sim-plified version of the appropriate text in both English and Zulu.The cartoons are action oriented and illustrate common humanrights issues facing rural South Africans. The book includes ques-tions that prompt participants to analyze the content of the UDHRand the drawings in the context of their daily lives. The text,Human Rights/Amalungelo Oluntu, has been used successfully inmany parts of South Africa.

NICEL’s work in South Africa is only one part of its interna-tional programs, which include projects in East Africa, LatinAmerica, and East/Central Europe. In the United States, NICELhas made information about the law available to citizens for morethan 20 years. This work has centered around NICEL’s primarytext, Street Law: A Course in Practical Law, currently in use in all50 U.S. states. A U.S. version of the Human Rights for All text isin production, and will be released by West Publishing Companylater this year.

For further information, contact NICEL, 711 G Street SE, Wash-ington, D.C. 20003; phone 202-546-6644 x233; fax 202-546-6649;or e-mail Meg Satterthwaite, assistant for international programs,at [email protected].


Canada Presents Sixteenth Annual InternationalHuman Rights Training ProgrammeThe International Human Rights Training Programme is a three-week intensive summer session bringing together more than 100participants from approximately thirty-five countries. The pro-gram seeks to advance the cause of human rights through educa-tion and comprehensive practical training supporting the work ofhuman rights groups. It uses adult education methodologies toencourage active participation.

Participants learn:

• how to use the human rights framework• about the links between civil rights, development, and so-

cial and economic rights• methods of popular education and communication tech-

niques• organization building through organizational and strategic

planning, management, goal setting, fund raising, and evalu-ation techniques

• how to carry on partnership and networking activities es-sential to promoting the cause of human rights

• how organizations can advocate more effectively on behalfof specific groups, such as refugees, women, children, andindigenous people

The training program is sponsored by the Canadian HumanRights Foundation, a nonprofit, non-partisan, nongovernmentalorganization. For further information, contact the foundation, 514-954-0382.

University of Minnesota Course Offered on the UNand ChildrenWalter Enloe and Gwen Willems will facilitate “Fifty Years of theUnited Nations: A Focus on Children and Family Rights and Re-sponsibilities,” a course for educators and helping professionals inthe University of Minnesota Summer Session special progam, “1995Summer of Significance.” This course, International Relations5900, will focus on human rights issues of children and familieslocally and globally and emphasize the concept of citizenship asthe public work of problem-solving.

Anticipated speakers include human rights experts DavidShiman of the University of Vermont, Kristi Rudelius-Palmer andDavid Weissbrodt of the University of Minnesota Human RightsCenter, and Arvonne Fraser, Barbara Knutson, Mary EileenSorenson, and Dorothy Hoffman, human rights leaders for chil-dren, families, and women.

For further information, contact Walter Enloe, 612-641-2810.

Summer Courses

Summer Courses and News

International Institute of Human RightsHosts 26th Study Session in Strasbourg,FranceThe International Institute of Human Rights will hold its 26th StudySession from July 3–28, 1995, in Strasbourg, France. Among theInstitute’s topics will be: the history of human rights; the obliga-tions of states to respect and ensure human rights; the human rightsprotection system of the United Nations and of its specialized agen-cies; the rights and duties of intergovernmental organizations insituations of civil war or anarchy; international humanitarian law;and the Inter American, European, and African human rights sys-tems and charters. In addition to the numerous human rightsclasses, the International Center for University Human RightsTeaching (CiedhU) will also instruct participants on human rightseducation methods and practices.

For further information, contact the International Institute ofHuman Rights, 1, Lezay Marn, 67000 Strasbourg, France, phone(33) 88 35 05 50, fax (33) 88 36 38 55.

Human Rights Education Summer SchoolHeld in United KingdomThe Third United Kingdom Human Rights Education SummerSchool will be held July 21-23, 1995, at University College of Ripon& York St. John, York.

For further information, contact Margot Brown, Centre for Glo-bal Education, the University College of Ripon & York St. John,Lord Mayor’s Walk, York, England Y03 7EX, phone 0904-616839,fax 0904-612512.

International Human Rights LawProgramme Offered at OxfordThe University of Oxford and the George Washington Universityare offering a joint program in human rights law at New Collegein Oxford, England. It is intended to prepare students to contrib-ute to the improvement of human rights conditions in their home-lands and around the world.

For its inaugural session in July 1995, the program has as-sembled an internationally recognized faculty offering courses onthe philosophy, history, doctrine, and practice of international hu-man rights law. The program emphasizes advocacy and dissemi-nation skills, as well as formal knowledge of human rights law,the means of its enforcement, and its status in a contentious world.

For further information, contact Professor Ralph Steinhardt,National Law Center, the George Washington University, 720 20thStreet NW, Washington, DC 20052, 202-994-5739.

Kathy Scott, 8th graderAbescon, NJ


Copies Are Available of the MostRecent Issue of Human RightsEducation: The Fourth R

The summer 1994 issue of The Fourth R was an annotated bib-liography of human rights education resources, divided into gen-eral and topical sections. Resource topics included:

• children• conflict resolution and peace• death penalty, torture, and other human rights abuses• development, economic justice, food, and health• environment• ethnic, linguistic, and religious minorities• gays and lesbians• indigenous peoples• refugees• womenTo obtain copies, contact the Human Rights Center, Univer-

sity of Minnesota, 437 Law Center, 229 - 19th Avenue South,Minneapolis, MN 55455, U.S., phone 612-626-0041, fax 612-625-2011.

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North American Partners for Human Rights Education (NAPHRE)is a new group of organizations collaborating on shared educa-tional goals. These partners are AIUSA, AI-Canada (English speak-ing), International Human Rights Association of American Mi-norities (IHRAAM), National Institute for Citizen Education inthe Law (NICEL), Organizing Committee of the People’s Decadeof Human Rights Education, South House Exchange, Universityof Minnesota Human Rights Center, and University of Vermont’sCenter for World Education.

NAPHRE seeks to ensure that every child is prepared to live ina global community where human rights and democratic principlesare understood and realized in daily life. It strives to establish hu-man rights as an essential ingredient in the professional educationof every teacher and in the curriculum of every school in the U.S.and Canada. NAPHRE works to provide a framework of univer-sally accepted human rights values for students to begin question-ing how to make the world a better place and to support teachersin facilitating an environment that encourages students to respecthuman dignity and become agents of change.

Membership in NAPHRE ($20 for individuals, $35 for schoolsand community organizations, $100 for national organizations)includes a subscription to The Fourth R, access to the materialsand consultants of the Human Rights Education Clearinghouse

located at the University of Minnesota’s Human Rights Center,newsletters of many other NAPHRE member organizations, andinformation on conferences and courses in human rights educa-tion. NAPHRE also encourages members to become involved inhuman rights education curriculum development and training pro-grams with educators throughout North America.

For more information and to request a brochure and member-ship form, contact NAPHRE, University of Minnesota HumanRights Center, 229 - 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota55455, 612-626-0041, fax 612-625-2011.

Share Your Ideas on Human RightsEducation through the ArtsThe next issue of Human Rights Education: The Fourth Rwill focus on human rights education through the arts. If youare creating poems, drawings, or essays on human rights orwant to suggest books of art, poetry, or drama on human rights,send information to Gwen Willems, managing editor, TheFourth R, c/o Human Rights Center, University of Minne-sota, 437 Law Center, 229 - 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis,MN 55455.

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