Human Rights Education (HRE) is a process whereby people learn about their rights and the rights of others, within a framework of participatory and interactive learning. HRE is concerned with changing attitudes and behaviour, learning new skills, and promoting the exchange of knowledge and information. HRE is long-term, and aims to provide an understanding of the issues, and equip people with the skills to articulate their rights and communicate this knowledge to others.

HRE includes a varied range of innovative and effective education programs in the formal, informal and non-formal sectors which are implemented by Amnesty International around the world. It:

• Recognises the universality and indivisibility of human rights
• Increases knowledge and understanding of human rights
• Empowers people to claim their rights
• Assists people to use the legal instruments designed to protect human rights
• Uses interactive and participatory methodology to develop attitudes of respect for human rights
• Develops the skills needed to defend human rights
• integrates the principles of human rights into everyday life
• creates a space for dialogue and change
• encourages respect and tolerance

Amnesty International and HRE Amnesty International's HRE work promotes the full spectrum of human rights as set out in the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the International Covenants, and other internationally agreed conventions, standards and treaties, and stresses the universality, indivisibility and interdependence of all human rights.