Instituto de Genero, Derecho y Desarrollo - PDHRE_LA

In our hands: human right as a way of life -- From Human Rights Cities – a personal view by Shulamith Koenig

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:20:38 -0400

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Thu, 11/10/2007 - 2:00pm

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Shulamith Koenig - is the recipient of the 2003 United Nations Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Human Rights.

She is the Founding President of PDHRE, the People’s Movement for Human Rights Learning –formerly known as- People’s Decade for Human Rights Education- which she had founded in 1988 with the goal of generating --in the words of Nelson Mandela --a new political culture based on human rights— to enable women and men alike to participate as equals in the decision that determine their lives…--people belonging in community in dignity with others…--people moving from charity to dignity.

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The launching of the Human Rights Cities Latinoamerican Network

Mon, 28 May 2007 11:07:01 -0400

The launching of the Human Rights Cities Latinoamerican Network

In Rosario, on May 11 and 12 we realized the first meeting of human rights cities in order to form a latinoamerican network.
Until now there were two cities adhered to the Human Rights Cities Program; the first was Rosario (Argentina) in 1997 and later, Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2005.
The participation in the Human Rights International Seminar organized in Rosario in 2004, encouraged some attendants to improve the experiencie in their countries and they have been working in their cities in order to make alliances, with the purpose of promoting the program.

PROJECT “THE VOICE OF POVERTY”

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:32:53 -0400

PROJECT “THE VOICE OF POVERTY”

THE ACHIEVEMENT OF MDG THROUGH HR LEARNING

Workshops and Meetings for reflection on children’s and adolescents’ human rights

From May to July, the Steering Committee was organizing several activities in order to diffuse the MDG, specially MDG number 1 “erradication of poverty” using the Human Rights framework and the methodology of participatory learning.

The principal beneficiaries of these activities were children and adolescents from slum areas and poor neighbourhoods.

Girls and boys discussed the connection between MDG and the Human Rights that they are entitled, contained in our National Constitution.

Letter from the President of PDHRE - Ms. Shulamith Koenig

Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:34:46 -0500

(regarding the partnership between PDHRE and Human Rights Cities)

Human Rights is the greatest gift of contemporary thought to humanity. It is not only a vision for a better world, but also a tool for achieving it. Yet somehow, as we enter the new millennium, it is a term that has come to represent in the public mind not the hope of the future, but rather legal processes, charges and countercharges, and , at times even, a certain empty rhetorical self-righteous.

In building a partnership for Human Rights Cities, we are committed to the profoundly simple, yet powerful, idea that to make a real difference in the daily lives of women and men, human rights must be understood as the basis and framework for our societies. People need to learn about human rights and let this understanding inspire action so that they will be ready to participate in joint efforts to improve the lives of their communities through human rights learning and action, that truly captures the idea of a worldwide movement for Human Rights Education and Human Rights Cities.

Human Rights Cities

Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:46:23 -0500

The association for Sustainable Human Rights Cities was initiated by PDHRE.
Since 1989, PDHRE has developed activities at the local level, around the world, for the creation of educative materials.
UNDP (United Nations Development Program) helps support Human Rights Cities. Like Human Rights Cities, the UNDP advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. The UNDP is on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges.

PDHRE International

Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:58:21 -0500

Website: www.pdhre.org

Ms Shulamith Koenig - founder and president of PDHRE - was the recipient of the 2003 United Nations Prize in the field of Human rights!

PDHRE International was created in 1989 with the objective of promoting human rights education. It played a key role in creating the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995 - 2004). From it's beginning, it has developed, strengthened and facilitated the apprenticeship, training and diffusion of human rights throughout the world, in all levels of society.

Since the year 2000, PDHRE International, has sought to promote regional chapters to facilitate human rights education in a more intense and effective manner. With this goal, PDHRE International opened offices in Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and South Asia. These offices attempt to develop programs and materials for the use of human rights capacitation including a system of holistic values protected by international law.

PDHRE- Latin America

Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:51:30 -0500

PDHRE - Latin America is the Latin American and Caribbean chapter of PDHRE - International. In actuality, it is based out of INSGENAR's office in Rosario, Argentina. INSGENAR devotes support and resources towards the pursuits and organization of PDHRE - LA.

PDHRE - Latin America, is the Regional Learning Institution for Human Rights Education (RLIHRE) for Latin America. It is currently being run by INSGENAR.

The aim of the RLIHREs is to develop a new vocation: human rights educators for social and economic transformation. The objective is to train and support new generations/cadres of educators who will in turn go back to their constituencies to establish ongoing programs of learning. At the RLIHREs future educators will be introduced to a wide range of subjects from political economy to social sciences, and international law.

The Latin American & Caribbean Institute for the Formation of Human Rights

Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:13:45 -0500

The Latin American & Caribbean Institute for the Formation of Human Rights, is being planned, as a dependent of PDHRE LA, to deliver distinct human rights educational activities and workshops. The Institute's objective will be to help train individuals to be capable of planing specific human rights educational activities - with the hope that "participants" will thereafter be able to carry out such activities in their respective communities.

Objectives include the following:

Deliver seminars within the region from the a fixed base
Create academic and educative materials
Investigate topics of special concern to the community, such as: children that work on the street, human security, urban design, protecting the environment
Create public policy and curriculum recommendations
Monitor and evaluate the entire project based on indicators
Systematize the experiences so that they can later be distributed/used in different regions

This project fits into the global strategy of PDHRE International which stimulates the creation of Human Rights Cities. Activities on local and regional levels would be intimately connected and operate using shared resources and offering projects in a joint fashion.

Brief Overview of PDHRE and its Structure

Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:43:13 -0500

PDHRE LA is the Latin American chapter of PDHRE-People's Movement for Human Rights Education, www.pdhre.org. Since its creation in 1989, PDHRE has worked worldwide with activities at the community level to develop the approaches and educational materials that are the key tools of the program; it is the institution that promoted the creation of the United Nation's Decade for Human Rights Education.

Currently, PDHRE LA promotes the formation of human rights communities throughout Latin America; Rosario being Human Rights City. Human rights cities exist, in part, through a partnership initiated on the basis of the spirit and strengths of two important international actors: PDHRE and the UNDP (The United Nations Development Programme).