“Education for Peace in a Multi-Religious World”: Celebrating World Human Rights Day

“There is no hope for peace without knowledge, which awakens us to our shared identity and connectedness as human beings”, said Mr. Anantanand Rambachan, Professor of Religion at St. Olaf College (US) and Columnist at Huffington Post. 

A Workshop Report on Child Participation in the UN Study on Violence Against Children -1 June 2010

*A UN Study on Violence Against Children provides a good opportunity to bring in children's participation into addressing violence against Children at all levels

ABC La enseñanza de los Derechos Humanos: Actividades prácticas para escuelas primarias y secundaria -2 June 2010

*Eso se ha querido crear un instrumento para la educación de los derechos humanos fácil de usar asî como un marco polifacético para tratar de diversos aspectos de los derechos humanos básicos *Se ofrecen consejos prácticos a los profesores y otros educadores que quieran fomentar el conocimiento de los derechos humanos y las actividades en ese campo entre los alumnos de las escuelas primarias y secundarias *Esta publicación no ha sido concebida como libro de texto de una asignatura más de los programas de estudios-que a buen seguro ya estarán sobrecargados-sino como ayuda para introducir los aspectos de los derechos humanos en las materias que ya se enseñaran en las escuelas

Discussions on The Right of Children and Adolescents to Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religions in Latin America and the Caribbean

As part of the Dialogues of Knowledge and Learnings 2020, Defence for Children International (DCI) in Costa Rica, together with UNICEF Costa Rica and the National Patronage for Children, organized on 20 August 2020 a webinar on the Right of Children and Adolescents to Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religions for Latin America and the Caribbean, as stated on Article 14 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Faith for Rights Experts’ Workshop: Building a Toolkit to Link Faith and Human Rights

Arigatou International participated in an expert workshop to help validate the #Faith4Rights toolkit, a key piece of the Faith for Rights initiative, led by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) together with faith-based groups to help combat growing hate speech and intolerance.

Feeding Minds, Feeding Hunger: A world free from hunger -5 May 2010

*Lesson plans focusing on hunger and malnutrition *Three lessons each for primary, intermediate, and secondary levels

First Collection of Good Practices for Quality Education -25 May 2010

*Includes good practices for quality education at school level (Inclusive education, education for sustainable development, education in support of intercultural dialogue, and human rights education), national level (Haiti), regional level (Asia-Pacific), inter-regional level (Great Volga River Route), and international level (Mondialogo School Contest) *Inclues annexes of UN Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and Education For All (EFA) Goals

Gender Sensitivity: A training manual for sensitizing educational managers, curriculum and material -10 May 2010

*Culmination of twelve-year training process spread over Africa, Asia, and Arab countries *Step-by-step instructions for a five-day orientation/training program

General Comments of the Committee on the Rights of the Child -17 May 2010

*Includes CD with Concluding Observations *Includes General Comments No. 1- No. 8 (2001-2006): The Aims of Education; The Role of Independent National Human Rights Institutions in the promotioon and protection of the rights of the child; HIV/AIDS and the rights of the child; Adolescent Health and Development in the contesxt of the Convention on the Rights of the Child; Treatment of Unaccompanied and Separated Children; Implementing child rights in Early Childhood; The right of the Child to protection from corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment *Includes other materials for the CRC at 18

Jeunes refugies africains: construire l`avenir -5 May 2010

*Un dossier pedagogique pour les eleves des ecoles secondaires *Une vidéo (67 minutes) et un support de cours pour l’enseignant

Oxford Dictionary of Religions -2 October 2009

Description of the resource

Plan de acción: Programa Mundial para la educación en derechos humanos -1 June 2010

*Primera etapa

Principles for an Universal Human Rights Education -17 May 2010

*United Nations Committee on the Rights of Child, Discussion Day 2003, The Rights of Indigenous Children, Palais Wilson, Geneva, 19 September 2003

Researching Conflict in Africa Insights and Experiences -25 February 2011

Africa has the uncanny reputation of being the world’s leading theatre of conflict, war, poverty, disease, and instability. Therefore it is not surprising that scholars of ethnicity and conflict management regard it as a major laboratory for experimentation and theory building. Notwithstanding the exaggerations and oversimplifications that sometimes attend the claims and findings, including the tendency to lump all states in the continent together as suffering from the tribalism disease, Africa generally has not disappointed and, in a manner of speaking, has lived up to its billing. This is certainly true of the turbulent post-Cold War period in which Africa has experienced persistent violent and seemingly intractable conflicts.

Review of Israeli Military Actions in the Gaza Strip:Legal Qualifications & Punishment -25 February 2011

The major part of humanitarian principles the observations of which hold significant importance and power, are principles set in the Four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977.

Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Guide -5 May 2010

*Intended for use by UNHCR staff and members of operational partners involved in protection and assistance activities *Tested in 32 countries

The Right to Human Rights Education -2 June 2010

*A compilation of provisions of international and regional instruments dealing with human rights education

UNESCO & Education aux droits de l'homme -12 May 2010

*Deux parties que décrirent qu'est-ce que l'éducation aux droits de l'homme et les activités de l'UNESCO en matiere d'éducation aux droits de l'homme

UNRWA: Human Rights, Tolerance & Conflict Resolution -11 May 2010

*Publication summarizing programs enacted by UNRWA in Palestinian schools

Youth Empowerment for Resilience, Peacebuilding and the Prevention of Violent Extremism through Education in the Sahel – A Multilateral Collaboration

In the framework of its collaboration with UNESCO, Arigatou International – Geneva lead a training workshop on how to integrate transformative pedagogies into education systems as a tool for promoting peacebuilding, resilience and the prevention of violent extremism.

The workshop, which was organized from 6 to 10 May 2019, by UNESCO's Multisectoral Regional Office for West Africa (Sahel) and the “Institut de la Francophonie pour l'éducation et la formation” took place in Niamey, Niger, bringing together representatives of the Ministries of Primary and Secondary Education of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Senegal.