All Governments have a duty under international human rights law to teach regularly about human rights and to provide a learning environment where human rights are respected and acknowledged.

Amnesty International is supporting the new United Nations World Programme for Human Rights Education which was launched at the United Nations General Assembly on 10th December 2004.

Across the world Amnesty International supporters will be taking action, lobbying their governments and asking that human rights education be come part of the curriculum in their countries or that it is developed further and given more focus and more resources.

We are also asking people to join our action to make human rights education part of everyday life in schools across the world.

What you can do:

1. Download and send a postcard to your government and ask that human rights education be taught and/or further developed in schools.

Two postcards are available (PDF format), one for primary and one for secondary schools, which can be sent to education ministers/parliamentarians. You can find the address details of your education minister/parliamentarians here

2. Download a poster and display it in your school, workplace, community or religious centre

Two posters are available (PDF format), one for primary and one for secondary schools. You can also contact your local Amnesty office for copies of the postcard and poster, and slogan stickers.

3. Raise awareness about human rights education

Tell your friends about human rights education

4. Find out more about Human Rights Education

If you are a teacher you will find the question and answer sheet useful when teaching about human rights or to simply answer questions about what human rights education is

5. Find out more on the World Programme for Human Rights Education
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights website