The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
The Professional Training Series consists of handbooks and manuals intended to increase awareness of international standards. Two guides have also been developed for Indigenous Peoples and Minorities on how these groups can use United Nations human rights procedures and those established by regional mechanisms. Special Issue papers explore a range of issues, including human rights and: Reproductive and Sexual Health; Business; HIV-AIDS; Human Trafficking; Disability; Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development; and the Environment.
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Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, 2008.
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This manual is for facilitators who believe in learner-centred participatory methodologies of learning. Dignity International, 2007.
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Author: Katharine Teleki. 2007. RHREP- Research in Human Rights Education Papers. Human Rights Education Associates, Inc.
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Amnesty and HREA, 2007. Authors: Kristine Belisle and Elizabeth Sullivan.
Service learning is a method whereby learners learn and develop through active participation in a service that is conducted in their communities. Usually it is coordinated with an elementary school, secondary school, institution of higher education, or community service programme and the community. Service learning fosters civic responsibility and is integrated into and enhances the academic curriculum of the learners. The manual contains lessons and service-learning projects. The lesson plans are divided into five human rights topic areas: environment, poverty, discrimination, children's rights to education and health, and law and justice.
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The Participation Guide provides simple tips and tools to involve affected individuals and groups in the various stages of health and development communication programs. This Guide provides examples of how to include those most marginalized that a health or development communication program is meant to empower. These people could include low-income women of reproductive age, youth, orphans and vulnerable children, people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA), or staff from organizations working with affected individuals or groups
Authors: Tapia, M., Brasington, A. and Van Lith, L., Health Communication Partnership, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Save the Children.2007.
This guide is primarily written for those within supporting organisations already working with, or wishing to promote the establishment of, community groups to care for and protect vulnerable children. It highlights the role of supporting organisations in assisting communities to take action with children. This guide is not a ‘how to’ manual. Rather, it draws together experiences from children, from community
group members (both adults and children) and from staff of supporting organisations.
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This guide is a basic introduction to using participatory theatre methods for exploring human rights issues with people in rural communities. Raising awareness is not a matter of lecturing human rights but of involving people in analysing their problems and improving their lives. They do so by relating their problems to universal human rights that everyone in the world is entitled to. Amnesty International, 2005.
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Report on the Widows Navigating Power Sensitization Workshop
Redeemed Gospel Church –Kathama Location
Mwala District-Eastern Province –Kenya
Ebony Youth and Orphans Support Initiative Kenya & Mitei Self Help Group
August 2008
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University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
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Disability People's International.
This Implementation Toolkit is a sister to last year’s Ratification Toolkit and, once again, was developed by DPI with the generous support of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. It is DPI’s hope that persons with disabilities and DPI National Assemblies will find within it the information needed to be part of the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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Participatory video for voice, reflection and exchange on human rights based development. Guideline to participatory video taken from workshop experiences in Somalia/land. Equalinrights in cooperation with Oxfam Novib. Written by Emma Sydenham.
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The Centre for Victims of Torture- The New Tactic in Human Rights project, 2004.
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Amnesty Internatonal (2002)
Available in English, French, Portuguese, Swahili (link goes to HREA database for description and copy of document).
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Wealth of human rights education and training materials, on-line forums, databases and links to other organisations and resources. Materials are available for formal and non-formal human rights training for all types of actors.
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