From South Africa to Japan, from Morocco to Serbia, from Samoa to Mexico and Kyrgyzstan, seven young human rights educators show the way in inspiring young people to take action and promote human rights for all.
Human rights education is an essential contribution to the prevention of human rights abuses and represents an important investment to build a just, peaceful and sustainable future consistent with human rights principles. To confront today’s crises, human rights education is more important than ever.
GENEVA (4 December 2023) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called today for policies supporting human rights education programmes, particularly “prioritising young people in...
GENEVA (19 July 2023) – UN experts* today expressed deep concern about a discriminatory policy issued by the Libyan Government of National Unity (GNU) in April 2023 that effectively restricts the...
GENEVA (6 February 2023) – Around a million children of the Tibetan minority were being affected by Chinese government policies aimed at assimilating Tibetan people culturally, religiously and...
Excellencies, colleagues, and friends, Each morning, as we send our children to school, we have many hopes for them. We hope they will learn something new, develop their talents, make friends, and...
The fourth phase (2020-2024) of the World Programme for Human Rights Education focuses on youth empowerment through human rights education, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development...
This year’s Oxford Forum for International Development (OxFID) Global Youth Challenge brought together youth from around the world, to propose solutions to support human rights education for youth.
UN Human Rights participated at the Swiss Scouts National Jamboree where the UN engaged with about 1,000 Scouts on inclusion and diversity in canton of Valais, Switzerland.
Summary In accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 39/3 , the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) prepared a draft plan of action for the fourth phase (2020...
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