Human Rights Education

The term human rights education has been coined to denote a specialized branch of education which has been mushrooming in the past decade, prompted by the profound change which human rights movements around the world had instigated and which led to the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004). Although the United Nations have recommended that human rights education start at primary school, it is usually confined to the upper part of the education pyramid. Without a clear vision of the interrelationship between the right to education and rights in education, promoting human rights education or human rights through education remains impossible. This book aims to provide a quick overview of the questions that should be posed so as to bring education and human rights closer together, ultimately to fully integrate human rights in education.