The 7th Meeting of the United Nations Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee “Human Rights Education in the School System” was held in Geneva to evaluate the 1st phase of the World Programme for Human Rights Education and to discuss possibilities for the 2nd phase, which will begin in 2010.

The Global On-line Consultation is a participatory process for all stakeholders of drafting a plan of action for the second phase of the World Programme for Human Rights Education (WPHRE). Among others, teacher training and higher education institutions are invited to contribute. Submit your contribution by March 28, 2010.

The European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice calls for applications for its inter-disciplinary European Master Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation for 2010/2011. Deadline for application is March 19, 2010.

In the course of 2010 the EWC provides the following main activities:   EWC-Pestalozzi Programme Seminars The European seminar "Preparing future teachers for intercultural understanding" took place ...

The Global Education & Youth programme of the North-South Centre (NSC) has, since 1999, been organising the Global Education Week (GEW), an annual decentralised event encouraging global education awareness-raising activities within educational and youth settings in the Council of Europe’s (CoE) member States.

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.

In cooperation with the Council of Europe, the EWC will host two Pestalozzi Seminars during autumn 2009. The first seminar will take place September 21-25, 2009. The Pestalozzi Programme organizes training activities for education professionals from all over Europe.

It’s the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In 1989, world leaders decided that children needed a special convention just for them because people under 18 years old are often neglected in the human rights debate. The leaders wanted to make sure that the world recognized that children have human rights too.

This year’s start to the academic calendar will be a very special one for a group of students in Moscow. Three of Moscow’s Universities have signed a formal agreement with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to introduce a new academic specialization at the Master’s level in human rights studies.

A report on the discussions on HRE in the UN Human Rights Council 12th session (14 Sep - 2 Oct) has been published. The Council decided on the focus for the second phase of the World Programme for Human Rights Education.