The Council of Europe Youth Department and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, with their non-governmental partners including the European Youth Forum and Amnesty International, are proud to announce the co-organisation of a forum to critically review the status, achievements and challenges of human rights education for, with and by youth, as conceptualised and practiced by them and their partners.
The Forum will ensure a global perspective which is essential in view of the universality of human rights and, consequently, of the need to universalise the commitments, understandings, and praxis of human rights education, while localising it in specific social, political and educational contexts.
Holding the Forum during Human Rights Day 2025 stresses the leading role that human rights education should have in the promotion of a culture of universal human rights.
This forum will provide the opportunity for the community of human rights educators to gather, share, reflect and nurture human rights education practice for the upcoming years, underlining cooperative dialogue between international, national and local partners, whether professionals or volunteers from the formal or non-formal education sectors, whether governmental institutions or non-governmental organisations.