The on-line Journal for Social Science Education has just published a special issue on Human Rights Education in (http://www.jsse.org/2006-1/index.html). This issue was co-edited by Dr. Karl-Peter Fritzsche, Unesco Chair for Human Rights Education at the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg and Felisa Tibbitts, Executive Director of Human Rights Education Associates.
Human rights education is difficult because human rights are critical by nature. Human rights education (HRE) elucidates conditions under which human rights are violated. It enables us to measure policies and actions against human rights standards. HRE is about education for taking action. In spite these difficulties, the authors of this JSSE issue show, that human rights education is becoming a powerful approach and is going to become a success story.
The issue includes ten peer reviewed articles written by colleagues who are engaged in the theory and practice of human rights education.
This issue is available online and free of charge. You are encouraged to review these articles and to pass this information along to your colleagues.
Table of contents:
Felisa Tibbitts and Peter Fritzsche: Editorial
http://www.jsse.org/2006-1/fritzsche_tibbitts_intro.htm
Gloria Ramirez: Human Rights Education before the Challenges of the Emerging Human Rights of the 21st Century
http://www.jsse.org/2006-1/ramirez_hre.htm
Nils Rosemann: The New Debate on Torture - A Challenge for Human Rights Education
http://www.jsse.org/2006-1/rosemann_torture.htm
Anja Mihr: Minority Participation - A Challenge for Human Rights Education?
http://www.jsse.org/2006-1/mihr_minorities.htm
Lothar Krappman: The Rights of the Child as a Challenge to Human Rights Education
http://www.jsse.org/2006-1/krappmann_child-rights.htm
Cristina Sganga: Human Rights Education - As a Tool for the Reform of the Police
http://www.jsse.org/2006-1/sganga_police_reform.htm
Andre Keet and Nazir Carrim: Human Rights Education and Curricular Reform in South Africa
http://www.jsse.org/2006-1/keet_carrim_s-africa.htm
Ulrike Niens, Jackie Reilly and Alan Smith: Human Rights Education as Part of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland
http://www.jsse.org/2006-1/niens_reilly_smith_ireland.htm
Malin Oud: Creative Tensions and the Legitimacy of Human Rights Education - A Dicussion on Moral, Legal and Human Rights Education in China
http://www.jsse.org/2006-1/oud_china.htm
Claudia Lohrenscheit: Dialogue and Dignity - Linking Human Rights Education with Paulo Freire's "Education for Liberation"
http://www.jsse.org/2006-1/lohrenscheit_freire.htm
Bert Verstappen: www.Hurisearch.org - A Search Engine for Human Rights Information
http://www.jsse.org/2006-1/verstappen_hurisearch.htm