I am pleased to report that the 5th International Human Rights Education Conference (IHREC) held at the American University, in Washington DC, USA on 4-6 December 2014 has just finished. The conference was convened by Professor Claudio Grossman, Dean, American University Washington College of Law and Chairperson of the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) and endorsed by the Australian government – see the message from the Prime Minister.
The theme of the 5th IHREC is ‘Advancing UNiversal Human Rights Culture’ – see: http://www.wcl.american.edu/events/ichredu/. The conference was a great success – it attracted 278 registrations and over 100 speakers form some 40 countries and advanced HRE world-wide.
For conference program the attachment.
As a background, I have initiated this series of human rights education conferences in 2010. The first conference was organised jointly by the Australian Council of Human Rights Education (http://humanrightseducationaustralia.com/about.php) jointly with the University of Western Sydney. For information about the 2010 inaugural conference “Educating for Human Rights, Peace and Intercultural Dialogue” that was held in Sydney see: http://www.uws.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/708792/HREC_2010_Report_Web_Version.pdf
At the moment I am concluding negotiations with a possible host of the 6th IHRE Conference. I hope that it will be held in Santiago, Chile in November 2015. After the conference would have been to all the continents with the human rights education message, it would be time to return it to Sydney in 2016.
FINAL PROGRAM OF 5th IHRE CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON DC – 4-6 DECEMBER 2014
