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We especially invite those from the NGO Committee on Education, and the NGO Committee on Human Rights.

NGO COMMITTEE ON YOUTH

Last meeting of 2003!

December 15 , 2003

Hardin Room, CCUN 11th floor

15:00 - 17:00

Subject: Human Rights Education

Come participate in an interactive dialogue with the People's Decade of Human Rights Education. PDHRE seeks our "youth perspective" for their movement to establish an international human rights education program.

All are invited.

About PDHRE

Founded in 1988, the People's Decade of Human Rights Education (PDHRE-International) is a non-profit, international service organization that works directly and indirectly with its network of affiliates — primarily women's and social justice organizations — to develop and advance pedagogies for human rights education relevant to people's daily lives in the context of their struggles for social and economic justice and democracy. PDHRE's members include experienced educators, human rights experts, United Nations officials, and world renowned advocates and activists who collaborate to conceive, initiate, facilitate, and service projects on education in human rights for social and economic transformation. The organization is dedicated to publishing and disseminating demand-driven human rights training manuals and teaching materials, and otherwise servicing grassroots and community groups engaged in a creative, contextualized process of human rights learning, reflection, and action. PDHRE views human rights as a value system capable of strengthening democratic communities and nations through its emphasis on accountability, reciprocity, and people's equal and informed participation in the decisions that affect their lives. PDHRE
was pivotal in lobbying the United Nations to found a Decade for Human Rights Education and in drafting and lobbying for various resolutions by the World Conference on Human Rights, the UN General Assembly, the UN Human Rights Commission, the UN Treaty Bodies, and the Fourth World Conference on Women.

for more information contact jim.freeburg@franciscansinternational.org