The documentary film A Path to Dignity was launched at a side-event at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. "A Path to Dignity: The Power of Human Rights Education" is a 28-minute movie that presents three stories illustrating the impact of human rights education respectively on school children in India, law enforcement agencies in Australia and women victims of violence in Turkey. It is intended as a tool to raise awareness about the positive role that human rights education can play in realising human rights.

EWC's Head of Research presented results of the project "TeacMem. Developing Competence-Orientated Teaching on Historical Memories” during the international conference on "Structures and Processes of Commemorating Cruelties in Academe and History Teaching: The Commemoration of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and of the National Socialist Crimes in Comparison” that was held at Hamburg University in September.

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented two new sets of guidelines on human rights education at the OSCE’s annual Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 24 September 2012. The publications offer guidance on developing curricula, enhancing the teaching and learning experience, preparing teachers and trainers, and evaluating the work done.

The Council of Europe Youth Department is launching a survey among young people on their attitudes and experience of hate speech online. The survey targets young people (13-30 years old primarily) in Europe and beyond and is intended to provide empirical data to support further research and support to shape the online campaign against hate speech. The survey only takes 15 minutes.

To close the global gap in further training opportunities in human rights education, in the context of and linked with the new UN Declaration of Human Rights Education and Training adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 2011 and because of the high interest in the "Certificate of Advanced Studies CAS in Human Rights Education", the University of Teacher Education Central Switzerland (PHZ) is running the course again, starting January 2013. The CAS Human Rights Education aims to qualify the participants for a role as trainer and multiplier of human rights education for their specific context.