From: InformaGiovani <info@informa-giovani.org>
Human rights for youth. Online training course
Associazione InformaGiovani
We are happy to announce the availability online of the training course "TRAINING PROGRAM ON HUMAN RIGHTS FOR MEMBERS AND VOLUNTEERS OF YOUTH ORGANISATIONS".
This project consists in an online training course on human rights and was created by a partnership of four European organisations (Respect, Catalunia, Spain- InformaGiovani, Italy — Global Youth Union, Armenia — Student Youth Council — Georgia) with the help of two collaborators (Flare network and International Peace Bureau).
The aim of it is to provide a training on human rights for members and volunteers from youth European organizations, to help them improve their knowledge and awareness on this issue and related fields (gender issues, social integration, democratic citizenship, refugees, immigrants, etc.).
CONTENT
Introduction to human rights
Fundamentals of human rights education
The principles and values of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Universality of human rights
Discrimination or equality?
Human rights and Islam
Gender and human rights
Being on the right side – legality, the Mafias and us
Indigenous people and their rights
Migrants and their rights
Rights of refugees and asylum seekers
Children’s rights
Right to information
Democratic citizenship
Peace education
The role of human rights education in the process of global change
METHODOLOGY
The methodology to be used when studying this training course is a practical and participative one. Each chapter contains theory and discussion questions or case studies. On this website you will find also some additional resources.
TRAINING COURSE
The training course can be downloaded free of charge from http://humanrightsforyouth.org
The participating organisations would like to thank the Council of Europe and the European Youth Foundation for financing this project and making it possible.