Human Rights Education Associates

Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) was founded in 1996 and "is an international non-governmental organisation that supports human rights learning; the training of activists and professionals; the development of educational materials and programming; and community-building through on-line technologies. HREA is dedicated to quality education and training to promote understanding, attitudes and actions to protect human rights, and to foster the development of peaceable, free and just communities.

"HREA works with individuals, non-governmental organisations, inter-governmental organisations and governments interested in implementing human rights education programmes." 

"HREA was founded in 1996 in order to focus on the transitional societies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Since that time, HREA has expanded its work to include all countries and has become one of the leading human rights education organizations worldwide...

"Through the Global Human Rights Education (HRE) listserv, HREA has a network of over 3,600 human rights educators in 150 countries. Through its sister listservs in Russia, Latin America, Francophone Africa and Asia – which HREA helped to initiate with partner organizations –the online global HRE community currently includes 13,000 individuals and organizations." 


 * Felisa Tibbitts, Executive Director other staff

Funding
In the 2004-05 period "The United States also funded the international NGO Global Rights to promote women's legal literacy and to help implement reforms to the family status code (Moudawana) as well as providing assistance to Human Rights Education Associates to help implement Moudawana reforms." (In Morocco)

HREA's Youth for Human Rights project "is generously funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Institute's Middle East & North Africa Initiative." 

Directors
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 * Larry Dieringer, Educators for Social Responsibility (USA)
 * Nancy Flowers, Amnesty International-USA
 * Jeff Plantilla, Hurights-Osaka (Japan)
 * Judith Opert Sandler, Education Development Center, Inc. (USA)
 * Paul Pospisil, Atlas Venture (USA)
 * Cristina Sganga, former International Human Rights Education Coordinator, Amnesty International-International Secretariat (the Netherlands)
 * Felisa Tibbitts, Executive Director, HREA

International Advisory Committee
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 * Carlos Basombrio - (Instituto de Defensa Legal, Peru)
 * Richard Pierre Claude - (Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, USA)
 * Asma Khader - (Minister of State and Government Spokesperson, Jordan)
 * Jana Kviecinska - (Human Rights Department, Government of Slovakia)
 * Michal Levin - (Adam Institute for Peace and Democracy, Israel)
 * Frans Limpens - (Accion pro Educacion en Derechos Humanos, Mexico)
 * Abraham Magendzo - (UNESCO Chair for Human Rights Education at Universidad de la Academia Humanismo Cristiano, Chile)
 * David McQuoid-Mason - (School of Law, Howard College, University of Natal, South Africa)
 * Marek Nowicki † (1947-2003) - (Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Poland)
 * Aaron Rhodes - (International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, Austria)
 * Arild Tjeldvoll - (University of Oslo, Norway)
 * Felice Yeban - (Philippines Normal University, Philippines)

Partners
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 * Albanian Center for Human Rights
 * Amnesty International
 * Amnesty International-USA
 * Arab Institute of Human Rights (AIHR)
 * Arab Portal for Human Rights
 * Asia-Pacific Regional Resource Center for Human Rights Education (ARRC) (Thailand)
 * Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies
 * Council of Europe
 * Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 * Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe (DARE) Network
 * Digital Opportunity Channel
 * Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR)
 * Ford Foundation
 * Global Internet Liberty Campaign
 * HURIDOCS
 * HURIGHTS-Osaka
 * Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (IIDH)
 * International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF)
 * International Human Rights Law Institute at DePaul University College of Law
 * International Center for Tolerance Education
 * International Debate Education Association (IDEA)
 * Ministry of Justice of Morocco
 * Ministry of National Education of Morocco
 * NGO Training and Research Center at Istanbul Bilgi University
 * Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
 * OneWorld Nederland
 * OneWorld.net
 * Open Society Institute
 * Open Society Justice Initiative (formerly COLPI)
 * Research and Training Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Citizenship-Zagreb
 * School for Human Rights
 * Arabic Network for Human Rights Information
 * Union Interafricaine des Droits de l'Homme (UIDH) (Burkina Faso)
 * UNESCO
 * UNESCO Chair in Human Rights Education at the University of Magdeburg
 * University of Minnesota Human Rights Center
 * UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education
 * U.S. Human Rights Network (USHRN)

Contact

 * Web: http://www.hrea.org