Human Rights Education and Training Materials and Resources

OHCHR designs and develops materials to support human rights education in formal and non formal education, as well as human rights training efforts for professional and other groups. It also develops resources and information-sharing platforms to assist the work of education and training professionals, practitioners and advocates.

These include:

Publications

• OHCHR human rights education and training publications
• Human Rights Education and Training Resource Collection (accessible through the OHCHR Library Catalogue): publications on and for human rights education and training by OHCHR, the UN system, and others (trainers’ guides, teaching resources and pedagogical tools for children and adults, reports, papers, bibliographies and directories, and more).

Videos and Infographics

• Changemakers: Stories of Young Human Rights Educators
• Film “A Path to Dignity: The Power of Human Rights Education”
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Human rights education milestones at the UN (PDF)
• World Programme for Human Rights Education (PDF)

Programmes and Plans

• The World Programme for Human Rights Education
• National Action Plans for Human Rights Education
• OHCHR’s Technical Cooperation Programme
• Assisting Communites Together (ACT): Grants to civil society organizations for human rights education activities
• The Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition

Web resources

• The Right to Human Rights Education: a compilation of provisions of international and regional instruments dealing with human rights education
• Stand up for Human Rights
• Human Rights Education and Training Database: provides information about institutions and programmes as well as access to materials for human rights education and training