After the Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos in Santiago de Chile withdrew as the host of 6th International Human Rights Education Conference (IHREC) in December 2015 I wrote to the international human rights education network to seek a new host. I received a number of proposals including from Burma, Canada, Gambia, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Uganda, UK and others, but the most viable proposal was received from the University College Roosevelt, Utrecht University in Middelburg, Netherlands in cooperation with the Human Rights Education Associates (HREA).

Today I am pleased to announce that the 6th International Human Rights Education Conference will be held at the University College Roosevelt (Utrecht University) in Middelburg, the Netherlands, from 16- 18 December 2015.  Professor Barbara Oomen is the Conference Convenor, together with Frank Elbers of HREA. A Conference Call will be circulated shortly. Prof. Oomen can be contacted at:  B.Oomen@ucr.nl ; and Frank Elbers at: frank.elbers@hrea.org

The University of Western Sydney, HREA and the Australian Council for Human Rights Education agreed to partner with University College Roosevelt in support of the 6th IHREC.  The conference website and a call for papers will be developed shortly and circulated to the human rights education community.

I am also pleased to announce that the 7th International Human Rights Education Conference in 2016 will be hosted by the Human Rights Centre, Faculty of Law (Centro de Derechos Humanos, Facultad de Derecho) at the University of Chile. Dr Claudia Cárdenas, Director of the Human Rights Centre will be the convenor of the 2016 conference.

Finally, Equitas has agreed to host the 8th International Human Rights Education Conference in 2017 in Montreal, Canada, possibly in partnership with one of four Montreal Universities to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

Equitas is a Montreal-based NGO set up in 1967 with a mission to promote human rights education in Canada and around the world.  Equitas programs in Canada for children and youth reach approximately 100,000 young people/year.  Globally, Equitas has been running annual International Human Rights Training Program since 1980 and has been delivering programs to reinforce the HRE capacity of civil society and government organizations in Africa, Asia, the Americas, the Former Soviet Union and the Middle East since the mid- Nineties.  Equitas is recognized by many as a leader in the field when it comes to human rights education methodologies and evaluation. See  www.equitas.org  for more details.

For more information about Equitas please contact Ian Hamilton, Directeur Général / Executive Director Equitas – Centre international d’éducation aux droits humains / International Centre for Human Rights Education or visit:  www.equitas.org

See conference’ s Web site at  http://www.ihrec2015.org/