Human rights education
Everyone has the right to Human Rights Education (HRE), which is vital to the realisation of rights. It is a lifelong learning process that helps us respect and stand up for each other, with invaluable tools to oppose injustice and discrimination at every level, from the playground to the world stage.
As part of Seen and Heard, Amnesty International Poland will deliver teacher training on human rights education.
What is Human Rights Education?
Human Rights Education (HRE) is for everyone, children and adults alike, and is vital to the realisation of rights.
Human rights are not set in stone – they need to be understood and defended for people to thrive. After all, it is extremely difficult to stand up for ourselves and each other in difficult situation if we do not own our rights.
Various international treaties assert this. They include the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which says that the right to education ‘should strengthen respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms’.
The UDHR was a coming together of world leaders and thinkers saying ‘never again’ after the horrors of World War Two and the Holocaust. It offered hope and alifetime of legal protection to everyone, from birth to death. It is rooted in universally shared values such as truth, fairness and equality.
The 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child obliges all ratifying governments (including those of Poland, Malta and Germany) to educate everyone about children’s human rights.
In 2004, the General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed the World Programme for Human Rights Education (2005 – ongoing).
Read our Blog on Human Rights Education here
Teacher training interactive workshop
Young people today are growing up in a challenging world that often feels very unsafe. It is hard for them to distinguish the truth from fake news, or to accurately inform themselves when they are bombarded daily with a mass of conflicting images and words.
It is no wonder that young people’s mental health suffers. In this context human rights education can provide very helpful classroom tools to encourage critical thinking and questioning skills.
Amnesty International Poland’s specialist human rights educators are offering a free online interactive training workshop. It is for teachers and educators working with children and young people and will support you to introduce children’s human rights in the classroom in a way that is creative, age-appropriate and empowering.
It will also help you to foster an enriching culture of respect, equality and diversity. The workshop will be delivered in English.
The workshop will take place on 23 October 2025. Spaces are limited – find out more and sign up below
