ERRC Human Rights Education
(Last modified: 2004-06-03 15:33:44)
ERRC Human Rights Education is one of three streams in the ERRC Programmes Department. ERRC Human Rights Education programming aims to empower individuals to acquire knowledge, understanding and experience in human rights and Roma rights concepts and the international law instruments guaranteeing fundamental rights for all. The targeted approach of the ERRC Human Rights Education programming comprises:
1. An internship/externship programme providing Roma rights activists with training at the ERRC office in Budapest, or with a carefully selected, appropriate human rights organisation. Training modules last between 3 weeks and 6 months;
2. Workshops on human rights issues directed at Roma and other targeted groups within the wider society, such as police officers, teachers, NGO activists, members of public administration, etc;
3. Event-specific action, for example, organising, preparing and accompanying a Romani delegation to the World Conference against Racism, Durban 2001.
Training workshops have moved to the centre of ERRC human rights education activities in the recent period. In its Human Rights Education programming, the ERRC focussed its attentions on providing a series of one to three-day-long quality-driven human rights education and capacitation training workshops across Europe in 2005. This policy was based upon the high demand for ERRC workshops of this type among partner NGOs and Romani communities in Europe. These workshops focussed on a number of themes such as Documentation, anti-discrimination legislation and methodologies, women’s rights issues (including domestic violence) and “traditional” Roma rights issues. In conjunction to this, the HRE continued to implement its flagship training workshop (annual Roma Rights Summer workshop). The current shift of policy to conducting a series of capacitation training initiatives represents the new core for the ERRC HRE and we aim to continue to conduct similar activities in the forseeable future.
ERRC Human Rights Education activities aim first and foremost to empower Romani activists. Other target groups of ERRC Human Rights Education programming include Romani university students of law and public administration, as well as in some cases targeted groups within wider society, such as police officers, teachers, NGO activists, and members of public administration. |
