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Manuals on human rights education

Compass

A manual on Human Rights Education with Young People (2015)

COMPASS provides youth leaders, teachers, and facilitators of human rights education activities, whether professionals or volunteers, with concrete ideas and practical activities to engage, involve and motivate young people in living, learning and acting for human rights. It promotes a comprehensive perspective on human rights education and sees young people as actors for a culture of universal human rights.

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Compasito

Manual on human rights education for children (2008)

Compasito is a starting point for educators, teachers and trainers who are ready to deal with human rights education with children of 7-13 years. The book familiarises the reader with the key concepts of human rights and children's rights and provides substantial theoretical background to 13 key human rights issues, such as democracy, citizenship, gender equality, environment, media, poverty, and violence.

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Human Rights Education in Action - Practices of Human Rights Education with and by young people

The 3rd Compass Forum on Human Rights Education, Learning Equality – Living Dignity, held at the European Youth Centre Budapest in October 2016, reviewed the implementation of the The Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education (EDC/HRE) by youth organisations and identified needs for further action.

This publication testifies of the commitment of youth organisations and youth workers to the values of the Council of Europe through sixteen projects for Human Rights Education which can all be qualified as good practices. This is a tiny fraction of the work being done every day across Europe to make human rights education a reality for children and young people across Europe. Many other good practices are needed.

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Mirrors

Manual on combating antigypsyism through human rights education (2015)

This manual was produced within the Roma Youth Action Plan of the Council of Europe to provide teachers, trainers and facilitators of non-formal education processes with essential information and methodological tools to address antigypsyism with young people of all ages and in any social-cultural setting. It is equally suitable for work with groups of non-Roma, Roma only, or mixed groups.

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Bookmarks

A manual for combating hate speech online through human rights education (2014)

Bookmarks is published to support the No Hate Speech Movement youth campaign of the Council of Europe for human rights online. It is useful for educators wanting to address hate speech online, both inside and outside the formal education system, as it gathers activities designed for young people aged 13 to 18; however, they are adaptable to other age ranges.

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Right to Remember

A Handbook for Education with Young People on the Roma Genocide (2014)

Right to Remember is a self-contained educational resource for all those wishing to promote a deeper awareness of the Roma Genocide and combat discrimination. The handbook is based on the principles of human rights education and places remembrance as an aspect of learning about, through and for human rights. Right to Remember includes educational activities, as well as ideas for commemoration events, and information about the Genocide and its relevance to the situation of the Roma people today. It has been designed primarily for youth workers in non-formal settings, but it will be useful for anyone working in education, including in schools.

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Gender Matters

A manual on addressing gender-based violence affecting young people (2007)

Gender Matters is a manual to address gender-based violence with young people. It provides insights into gender and gender-based violence, background information to key social, political and legal issues and, especially, educational activities and methods for education and training activities with young people.

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Companion

A campaign guide about education and learning for change in Diversity, Human Rights and Participation (2007)

This guide has been produced under the Council of Europe's Youth Campaign for Diversity, Human Rights, and Participation "All Different - All Equal". The campaign provides an essential stimulus for common action to promote diversity, participation, and human rights. It seeks to bring attention both to the issues themselves and the methods used to address them. It is intended to support campaigners, activists and educators to advocate and educate to reach these goals. The guide builds on the approaches and methodologies of Compass - the manual on human rights education for young people.

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Enter! Dignity land

Cards game on social rights

Enter! Dignity land is a cards game on social rights, in which players, as Members of Parliament in an imaginary country called Dignityland, are asked to decide on the social policies concerning social rights within a development plan for the next five years. Through argumentation and decision-making processes, players learn more about social rights and their links to social policies.

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Encompassing human rights education with young people

Review of the Human Rights Education Youth Programme 2000-2009

Encompassing human rights education with young people (2009) is a  review of the main activities and achievements of the Human Rights Education Youth Programme. The review was presented at the Forum on Human Rights Education 'Living, Learning, Acting for Human Rights' (European Youth Centre Budapest, October 2009) at the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Council of Europe.

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Policy documents

Texts adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe

  • Resolution CM/Res(2020)2 on the Council of Europe youth sector strategy 2030
  • Committee of Ministers Recommendation on the Council of Europe Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education. CM/Rec(2010)7
  • Committee of Ministers Recommendation on Education for Democratic Citizenship. CM/Rec(2002)12
  • Committee of Ministers Recommendation on teaching and learning about human rights in schools CM/Rec(85)7
  • Committee of Ministers Resolution (78)41 on the Teaching of Human Rights

Texts adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

  • Parliamentary Assembly Recommendation on human rights education. PACE Rec 1346 (1997)

Texts adopted by other institutions/bodies of the Council of Europe

  • ECRI General Policy Recommendation N°10: Combatting racism and racial discrimination in and through school education (Strasbourg, December 2006)
  • Conclusions of the Evaluation Conference of the 2005 European Year of Citizenship through Education (Sinaia, April 2006). DGIV/EDU/CAHCIT (2006) 9 rev 3
  • The Declaration and the Action Plan of the Council of Europe 3rd Summit of Heads of State and Government (Warsaw, May 2005)
  • Conclusions of the Budapest Conference of Youth Ministers (Conclusions and recommendations) (2005)

Texts adopted by other institutions

  • Plan of Action for the third phase (2015-2019) of the World Programme for Human Rights Education (A/HRC/27/28)
  • United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training

Human Rights Education Youth Forums

  • Message of the 3rd Human Rights Education Forum report to the Council of Europe (Budapest, October 2016)
  • Report of the 2nd Human Rights Education Forum report (Budapest, Strasbourg, 14-18 October 2009)
  • Message of the 2nd Human Rights Education Forum to the Council of Europe
  • Report of the 2nd Human Rights Education Forum
  • Video of the 2nd Human Rights Education Forum
  • 1st Human Rights Education Forum report

Other reports

  • Learning to live together: a Shared Commitment to Democracy - Conference Report (2017) 
  • 2nd report on the State of Citizenship and Human Rights Education in Europe (2017)
  • Proceedings of the Conference on the Future of Citizenship and Human Rights Education in Europe. Strasbourg, 20 – 22 June 2017
  • Report of the conference “Democracy and Human Rights in Action- Looking Ahead" (2012)

Training of Trainers in Human Rights Education With Young People reports

  • Review of the courses organised between 2017 and 2019
  • Documentation of the course, European Youth Centre Budapest, 30 March- 8 April 2009 (TOTHRE 2009)
  • Training Trainers in Human Rights Education with Young People: Compilation of modules 2004-2006
  • Modules used by the team during the Training of Trainers in Human Rights Education with Young People, European Youth Centre Budapest, 20-29 November 2003 (ToTHRE 2003) 
  • Report of the Training of Trainers in Human Rights Education With Young People, European Youth Centre Budapest, 2-10 March 2002 (ToTHRE 2002)
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