Chapter 10: Human Rights Education¹

Human rights education (HRE) is an emergent field of educational theory and practice gaining increased attention and significance across the globe. HRE supports the international human rights movement through the promotion of awareness about and practices consistent with the rights accorded by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and related human rights conventions.

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997) defines human rights education as “training, dissemination and information efforts aimed at the building of a universal culture of human rights through the imparting of knowledge and skills and the molding of attitudes directed to: