Jan 28th: OSCE Guidelines for Human Rights Education: Guiding Principles for Effective Practice

Monday, January 28th, 4:15-6:15pm

Teachers College, Russell 306

525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027

Speakers

Pavel Chacuk     Human Rights Advisor in the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human

Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE/ODIHR)

Felisa Tibbitts   Director, Human Rights in Education Program, Carr Center for Human

Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Moderated by Dr. Monisha Bajaj, Associate Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University.

What are the OSCE Guidelines?

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), with fifty-six participating States, is the world’s largest inter-governmental regional security organisation. As the specialized institution of the OSCE dealing with human rights, democratization and elections, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has been actively working to promote quality Human Rights Education, both through the national level, as well as by developing policy tools for the whole OSCE area.

In 2012, ODIHR developed the Guidelines on Human Rights Education for Secondary School Systems (http://www.osce.org/odihr/93969?download=true). The document presents a comprehensive set of guiding principles which should be the basis for mainstreaming human rights in all spheres of the education sector.

Sponsors

The Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia, Teachers College Peace Education Network (PEN) & the Working

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