Human Rights Academy

The Human Rights Academy is a non-governmental organization that works to strengthen the respect for the international human rights in Norway and abroad. We offer lectures, workshops and courses on a variety of topics on human rights, multicultural understanding and peaceful conflict resolution.

Means

The main target groups are pupils and students, refugee youth, asylum seekers and teachers among others. We combine lectures with active methods where the participants engage themselves in the learning process through discussions, group work and exercises. This active way of learning promote critical thinking and is democracy in action.  

Activities in Norway

International commitment

 

Human rights education and training - a discipline in growth

The last decades there has been an increasing focus on human rights education as a tool of promoting peace, democracy and respect for human rights worldwide. In 2010  the Council of Europe launched its Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education, and in 2011 the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training.

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In these documents the organization´s member states are urged to strengthen the human rights education in the school systems and in the society at large. Many non-governmental organizations are also engaged in these educational efforts. The Human Rights Academy is pleased to be a part of this movement which in convinced that human rights education makes a significant contribution to peace, democracy, anti-discrimination and respect for human rights.

Finance

The Human Rights Academy is supported by project funding from different sources such as the Directorate of Immigration, Arts Council Norway/The Cultural Fund, EEA Grants, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and grants from other stakeholders suchs as Stiftelsen Helse og Rehabilitering and Holts legat. The Academy also receives gifts from private donors. An important income is the honorariums that the Academy earns on lectures, workshops and courses.