Human Rights Education

1. What were the most effective methods that teachers used in teaching human rights? What would you have done differently? What material was used (if any)?

          Using all sorts of interactive material (pictures, movies etc...). I've had the opportunity to be lectured by field officers who gave the class some very interesting insights of their personal experience. Furthermore, simulation exercises have proven to be very interesting (ex: how to prepare a mission of the CAT).

Being able to learn more about non Western perspectives on human rights would have been highly appreciated.

2. Did you find any particular aspect of learning human rights topics difficult? What issue(s) should definitely be covered in any human rights education course?

            All "institutional human rights" (i.e. the different international regimes, their conventions and bodies) International Humanitarian Law and peace keeping operations, as well as more critical perspectives: the indivisibility of human rights, why is that? (Including the polemics on Economic, Social and Cultural rights); human rights as a (political) discourse; etc...

3. What advice can you give to other human rights teachers or students?

         Be passionate! And don't forget why it's important to fight for human rights (be critical about what you do, so as to be able to defend it better).