The People's Movement for Human Rights Learning is an International Non-Governmental Organization created in 1989 in New York, United States. Its acronym is, in English, PDHRE. Among its sponsors are Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel of Argentina, Nobel Peace Prize winner Óscar Arias Sánchez of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter of the United States, among others. p> Logo of PDHRE.
Since its creation in 1989, it has carried out human rights education activities worldwide, and was one of the institutions that worked intensively to promote and create the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education.
PDHRE is constantly carrying out activities to promote human rights, disseminating them through a flexible approach, thus covering various governmental and non-governmental levels at the local and international level.
Organizes and / or participates in numerous international forums and conferences, seminars, competitions, workshops and uses various human rights education methods in its activities. It also promotes the formation of human rights communities and cities around the world. There are more than 11 cities and communities of Human Rights. Among them are Rosario in Argentina, Porto Alegre in Brazil, Thiès in Senegal, Graz in Austria, and others. The purpose of human rights cities is to establish committees between civil society organizations and at different government levels that generate a commitment in different educational activities and public management processes following guidelines and standards based on human rights.
A fundamental part of his work is the development of human rights education materials: manuals, books and videos. All the didactic materials are oriented to sensitize and train. They contain examples that describe situations of discrimination, exercises to motivate people gathered in workshops, to seek fulfillment of their rights.
A way of understanding Human Rights Education
From PDHRE / MOPADH, we aim to develop a social pedagogy that understands human rights education as an interactive and dynamic process, analyzing the development of daily life in our communities and its relationship with our rights and those of everybody. Human rights are the fruit of the functioning of society, according to different logics and interests, which are constantly rewritten, re-thought and re-projected, from and towards people, social groups, companies, organizations Social and States. From a holistic point of view, education / learning is a critical and creative process, focused on social change.
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