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* ERC-L Volume 6, Issue # 2 (July-August 2005) *
* A monthly newsletter with updates from the *
* Electronic Resource Centre for Human Rights
Education
{http://www.hrea.org/erc} *
* Published by HREA *
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ERC-L is a monthly e-mail newsletter about new
resources for human
rights education and training on the web site of
HREA. HREA's
Resource Centre consists of: a Library; a Forums
section with various
discussion lists related to human rights and
human rights education;
a Human Rights Links section; and a Databases
section. If you have
questions or feedback, please contact us at:
.

## FEATURE ##

International Youth Day
{http://www.hrea.org/feature-events/international-youth-day.php}
(12
August 2005)

The theme of the International Youth Day 2005 is
"WPAY +10 and Making
Commitments Matter". WPAY (World Programme of
Action for Youth) was
adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in
1996. WPAY provides
a policy framework and practical guidelines for
national action and
international support to improve the situation of
young people. It
contains proposals for action to the year 2000
and beyond, aiming at
achieving the objectives of the International
Youth Year and at
fostering conditions and mechanisms to promote
improved well-being
and livelihood among young people. WPAY includes
15 priority areas
for actions. This includes education, employment,
hunger and poverty,
health, environment, drug abuse, juvenile
delinquency, leisure-time
activities, girls and young women, participation,
globalisation,
information and communication technologies,
HIV/AIDS, youth and
conflict, and intergenerational relations.

## LIBRARY {http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library} ##

* Breaking the Silence: Learning About the
Transatlantic Slave Trade
{http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display.php?doc_id=2722...tegory_type=3&group=}
(London: Anti-Slavery International).
Language(s): English, French.
Keywords: lesson activities, reference, teachers,
secondary school,
history education, forced labour, slavery.

* Judges and Torture
{http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display.php?doc_id=2758...tegory_type=3&group=}
(London: Amnesty International, 2003).
Language(s): Chinese, English.
Keywords: guidelines, judges, disappearances,
inhuman or degrading
treatment, prisoners' rights, right to an
effective remedy, torture,
torture victims, Body of Principles for the
Protection of All Persons
under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment,
Convention Against
Torture and Other Cruel and Degrading Treatment
(CAT), Optional
Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture
(OPCAT), United Nations
Basic Principles on the Independence of the
Judiciary, UN Committee
Against Torture, UN Special Rapporteur on
Torture, China.

* Making Schools a Safe Horizon for Girls. A
Training Manual on
Preventing Sexual Violence against Girls in
Schools
{http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display.php?doc_id=2760...tegory_type=3&group=}
by Millie Akoth Odhiambo and Jeffrey Maganya
(Nairobi: ActionAid
International Kenya and The CRADLE - The
Children?s Foundation,
2004). Language(s): English. Keywords: training
manual, teachers,
trainers, teacher training, children's rights,
domestic violence,
gender, rights of the child, violence against
women, women's human
rights, Convention on the Rights of the Child
(CRC), Kenya.

* Tool on Teacher Training for Education for
Democratic Citizenship
and Human Rights Education
{http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display.php?doc_id=2350...tegory_type=3&group=}
by Rolf Gollob, Edward Huddleston, Peter Krapf,
Maria-Helena Salema
and Vedrana Spajic-Vrka? (Strasbourg: Council of
Europe, 2004).
Language(s): English, French. Keywords: guide,
lessons learned, NGO
staff, school administrators, teachers, trainers,
in-service
training, pre-service training, education for
democratic citizenship,
human rights education, methodology, Council of
Europe.

* Train-the-Trainer Manual: Civic Education and
Community
Mobilization
{http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display.php?doc_id=2691...tegory_type=3&group=}
(NIZA, 2005). Language(s): English. Keywords:
manual, community
leaders, trainers, non-formal education, training
of trainers, adult
education, citizenship education, civic
education, education for
democratic citizenship, popular education,
democracy, economic and
social rights, poverty, Malawi, Mozambique, South
Africa, Southern
Africa, Zimbabwe.

* United Nations Manual on the Effective
Prevention and Investigation
of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions
{http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display.php?doc_id=2709...tegory_type=3&group=}
(Minneapolis: Minnesota Advocates for Human
Rights, 2004).
Language(s): English. Keywords: manual, medical
personnel, NGO staff,
death penalty, extra-judicial killings, right to
life, torture,
Principles on the effective prevention and
investigation of
extra-legal, arbitrary and summary executions,
African Commission on
Human and Peoples' Rights, European Committee for
the Prevention of
Torture, Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights, UN Commission on
Human Rights, UN Committee Against Torture, UN
Human Rights
Committee, UN Special Rapporteur on summary or
arbitrary executions,
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.

## CALENDAR {http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar} ##

New courses added:

* V International Human Rights Colloquium

{http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar/display.php?doc_id=269...&category_type=}Date:
8-15 October 2005
Level: professional
Focus: To celebrate its fifth anniversary, the
International Human
Rights Colloquium has chosen an ambitious topic:
"South-South
Dialogue to Strengthen Human Rights". It is being
approached from 5
different angles: rule of law: a human rights
approach; strategies to
confront violence; transparency and indicators:
how to measure the
impact of our action; financial sustainability: a
dialogue between
donors and human rights movements and
organisations; universities and
NGOs: dialogue and partnerships.
Location: Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Deadline of application: 1 August 2005
Organisation: Conectas Human Rights, Sur Human
Rights University
Network

* Disability in Developing Countries
{http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar/display.php?doc_id=269...y_id=&category_type=}
Date: 19-23 September 2005
Level: undergraduate, professional
Focus: The course aims to increase knowledge of
the issues
surrounding disability in developing countries;
to provide skills for
designing, implementing and evaluating disability
programs; and to
introduce the concepts and means of mainstreaming
disability into
development programs.
Location: Melbourne (Australia)
Deadline of application: 19 August 2005
Organisation: Australian International Health
Institute/University of
Melbourne

* Gender and Organisational Development
{http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar/display.php?doc_id=269...y_id=&category_type=}
Date: 17-28 October 2005
Level: professional
Focus: The overall aim of the course is to
enhance the understanding
of the concepts of gender and development, and in
mainstreaming
gender in institutions and programmes.
Location: Addis Abeba (Ethiopia)
Deadline of application: -
Organisation: International Institute of Rural
Reconstruction
(IIRR)-Africa Regional Center

* Health and Human Rights
{http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar/display.php?doc_id=268...y_id=&category_type=}
Date: 10-21 October 2005
Level: graduate, professional
Focus: This course of study covers the general
concepts and
principles of human rights, their relationship
to, and impact within
the health sector.
Location: Heidelberg (Germany)
Deadline of application: -
Organisation: Department of Tropical Hygiene and
Public
Health/University of Heidelberg

* Human Rights Fieldwork - Principles, Strategies
and Skills
{http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar/display.php?doc_id=269...y_id=&category_type=}

Date: 28 October-8 November 2005
Level: professional
Focus: This training will explore the principles
underpinning
effective human rights fieldwork, enhance the
skills of participants
needed to carry this out safely
before/during/after armed conflict,
ensure that human rights fieldwork
is relevant, effective, sustainable,
participatory and accountable,
raise participants? self-awareness of skills
required to undertake
international human rights fieldwork.
Location: Maynooth (Ireland)
Deadline of application: 5 September 2005
Organisation: International Human Rights Network

* International Diploma in Humanitarian
Assistance (IDHA) 18
{http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar/display.php?doc_id=269...y_id=&category_type=}
Date: 5-31 March 2006
Level: professional
Focus: This is a one-month, intensive,
interactive residential course
for humanitarian field workers.
Location: Geneva (Switzerland)
Deadline of application: -
Organisation: Center for International Health and
Cooperation (CIHC)

* Residential Training Workshop on Migration,
Globalisation, Security
and Development
{http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar/display.php?doc_id=263...y_id=&category_type=}
Date: 19-28 November 2005
Level: professional
Focus: This workshop is designed to enhance
understanding of
migration processes in South Asian and
international frameworks; and
to equip young academics and professionals in
migration research and
management.
Location: Rajendrapur (Bangladesh)
Deadline of application: 15 August 2005
Organisation: South Asia Migration Resource
Network (SAMReN)

* Rights-Based Programming
{http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar/display.php?doc_id=256...y_id=&category_type=}
Date: 22 March-13 June 2006
Level: professional
Focus: This distance learning course introduces
staff members of
(international) development agencies and NGOs to
rights-based
programming. A human rights-based approach is a
conceptual framework
for the process of human development that is
normatively based on
international human rights standards and
operationally directed to
promoting and protecting human rights.
Location: Internet (distance learning course)
Deadline of application: 15 December 2005
Organisation: HREA

* The United Nations Human Rights System
{http://www.hrea.org/erc/Calendar/display.php?doc_id=276...y_id=&category_type=}
Date: 13 February-6 May 2006
Level: (under)graduate, professional
Focus: This distance learning course provides
participants with
practical guidance on how to protect human rights
through the
European human rights system, and specifically
the institutions and
treaties of the Council of Europe. Participants
will be introduced to
the main European human rights conventions and
jurisprudence,
primarily as developed through the European Court
of Human Rights.
The course addresses European human rights
standards as they apply to
civil and political rights, economic, social and
cultural rights, and
the rights of minorities.
Location: Internet (distance learning course)
Deadline of application: 15 December 2005
Organisation: HREA

## LINKS {http://www.hrea.org/erc/Links} ##

The Human Rights Links section of the Resource
Centre has been
revised and expanded. It is now possible to
navigate the links by
both region and keyword.

Links to organisations and resources relating to
the following human
rights issues/themes were added recently:

Disappearances

{http://www.hrea.org/erc/Links/list.php?category_type=2&category_id=881}
Voter education
{http://www.hrea.org/erc/Links/list.php?category_type=2&category_id=282}

Women's human rights

{http://www.hrea.org/erc/Links/list.php?category_type=2&category_id=567}

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