The International Human Rights Exchange (IHRE) is the world's only full-semester, multidisciplinary program in human rights for undergraduate students. The program is housed at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Application Deadline: March 1, 2010

The theme and main aim of the 2009 Lisbon Forum have been to promote the creation of a culture of human rights, through “quadrilogue” action, i.e. governments, local and regional authorities and civil society. This year the Forum took place on 13-14 of November.

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, including methodologies and resources for educational practice.

The United Nations celebrations of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 will this year include the staging of the first World Human Rights Moot Court Competition.

Member States of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, a grouping of 11 African nations, have taken an historic step forward with the establishment of a Regional Center which aims to strengthen good governance, democracy and human rights.

The MBI Al Jaber Foundation will support the EWC in its work in the field of education for intercultural understanding, human rights and democratic citizenship. The MBI Foundation and the EWC will cooperate on several research- and capacity building related projects in the forthcoming years.