Pdhre, People's Movement for Human Rights Learning http://www.pdhre.org/, New York, NY (2026)

PDHRE, People's Movement for Human Rights Learning, formerly The People’s Decade for Human Rights Education, is an independent, international, non-profit organization promoting, enhancing and providing learning about human rights as relevant to people's daily lives at all levels of society, that leads to action. PDHRE was established in 1988 in an effort to respond to the unmet need for Human Righ

ts Learning at the grassroots level that needed this knowledge and strategy the most as a powerful tool for action. Since then, PDHRE has conducted and/or facilitated Human Rights Learning and training at the community level in more than 60 countries, and produced a unique range of written and audio-visual pedagogical materials to support learning and dialogue for socio-economic transformation. PDHRE was instrumental in the creation of the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995 – 2004) and is committed to create a process by which all will know human rights towards social and economic transformation. PDHRE is convinced that imposed ignorance is a human rights violation and the learning about human rights as a way of life is an imperative for meaningful human, social and economic development. There is none other…-- to break thought the vicious cycle of humiliation. PDHRE and its affiliates in Latin America, Africa, Eastern and Western Europe, North America, and Asia, work as human rights ‘extension services’ in culturally diverse communities to stimulate develops and facilitates a wide variety of grassroots programs and projects, where people learn about human rights as a way of life and claim them. Its trainers introduce human rights in a comprehensive and integrated way to local concerns and expectations with a special focus on economic, social and cultural rights, gender equality and non discrimination. Over the years PDHRE has built up a network of human rights educators and activists worldwide, an award-winning web site and learning materials for a variety of target groups. In its community work, PDHRE reaches out to local community leaders, introducing them to the holistic human rights framework as related to their specific concerns, and strives towards a systemic analysis critical thinking to assure economic and social justice. To achieve this vision, and mission PDHRE is facilitating the development of Human Rights Cities around the world where communities learn to use the holistic framework of human rights to re imagine and reconstruct the lives of all women, men, youth and children—joining in societal development—belonging in community in dignity with others. To expand this work, and to argue its imperative, PDHRE has been actively promoting a dialogue about the holistic vision of human rights at the UN, as deputy of the NGO Committee on Human Rights. Within these activities, it has promoted with the government of Benin, and cosponsored by more than 100 countries, adopted without a vote, the UN GA Resolution A/RES/63/173, The International Year of Human Rights Learning. This is an important achievement for the long and rich experience that PDHRE can offer to the world. It is now promoting a five-regional plan to implement the resolution, starting with 25 countries. This will lead to the beginning of a process of learning and dialogue at the community level, that will have in 10 to 15 years all women, men, youth and children know human rights as a way of life, as relevant to their daily lives guided by the holistic human rights framework. PDHRE is recognized all over the world in its commitment to have human rights a way of life, defining human rights in a new, positive and proactive way, towards the full realization of human rights for all. For this work the organization's founder, Shulamith Koenig, received the 2003 UN Human Rights Award. This award was given to Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela among 35 others that have received it during the last 35 years. The PDHRE Board of Directors issued a Global Appeal for Human Rights Learning, which can be viewed at: http://www.pdhre.org/global-appeal.html , including its highly-acclaimed signatories from around the world. More information about the organization, its activities and publications can be found at: http://www.pdhre.org/ . The commitment of PDHR is to facilitate the development a new political culture based on Human Rights—moving from charity to dignity…-- human rights as the banks of the river in which life can flow freely…-- and when the floods come the knowledge and ownership of human rights become a powerful tool in the hands of people to strengthen the banks and have life continue to flow freely with
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This was in 1949 in Beer Sheva where I brought Leonard Berenstien and introduced him to thousands who set around in a natural
Amphitheater where he played Gershwin -- It eras magnificent!!
Happy to share it so many years later

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How do we get with this message to millions around the world to discuss the meaning of human rights to their lives? Contact us at pdhre@ igc.org
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Why learning & integrating human rights as a way of life is an imperative: Human Rights Learning must become an integral part of the Post 2015 agenda, as a foundation and a cross cutting issue. Presented by PDHRE, People’s Movement for Human Rights Learning --www.pdhre.igc At the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna in 1993 we were successful to include "human rights education" in the plan of action. The same was later declared public policy in a General Assembly resolution for the "UN Decade of Human Rights Education" that PDHRE was privileged to coauthor. The resolution called : “human rights education… more than the provision of information.. it should constitute a comprehensive life-long process by which people at all levels in development work and in all strata of society learn to respect the dignity of others. Human rights learning is part and parcel of a concept of development that is consistent with the dignity of women and men of all ages, that takes into account the different segments of society such as, among other, children, indigenous peoples, minorities and disabled persons. The Resolution called on international, regional and national non-governmental organizations, in particular those concerned with women, labor, development and the environment, as well as all other social justice groups, human rights advocates, educators, religious organizations and the media, to increase their involvement in implementing the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education. Having learned from our failing and our practice in the last 20 years, we moved to define our work as Human Rights learning: An ongoing, never ending, process of integrating the learning of human rights as relevant to people’s daily concerns, cross cutting through all issues attended by all sectors of society. Since 1994, a rather small proportion of the world’s population has been reached by HR education. It has not succeeded to place it as a powerful tool, which it is, in the hands of women and men at the community level as a strategy for development, a viable approach in the achievement by and for the people, women and men alike, of economic, social and human development; as the 1994 Resolution called for. PDHRE, using its experience of 20 years, is moving to close these gaps, sharing ways and mean for all people to learn, know and own human rights as relevant to their daily lives and to assure that it becomes an integral part of the post 2015 agenda. This is indeed an imperative. Through our initiative with the Benin Mission to the UN, at the UN, GA 3rd Committee, the African Group and many co-sponsors, passed two resolutions by consensus: Number 62/171 of 2009 entitled "International Year of Human Rights Learning” and number 64/68 of 2011,entitled “Follow-up to the Year..” that said: “--Encourages Member States to expand on efforts undertaken during the International Year of Human Rights Learning --consider devoting financial and human resources necessary to design and implement International, regional, national, and local long-term human rights learning programs of action aimed at broad-based and sustained human rights learning at all levels in coordination with civil society, the media, the private sector, academia and parliamentarians and regional organizations, including the appropriate specialized agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system, and where possible, in designating human rights cities. “ Believing that the learning of human rights has to be carried out in practice (not just imparting knowledge) thus leading to "ownership" and actually supporting planning that leads to action, PDHRE has been involved in facilitating the setting up of ‘human rights cities’. HR Cities in development can now be found in Latin America, USA, Canada, Africa and Europe. We therefore strongly recommend that the call for an ongoing learning process about human rights as relevant to people's daily lives be implemented in every community around the world - and be an integral part of the post 2015 agenda, People in their communities must close the vicious cycle of economic and social humiliation. In the long run, all people around the world must engage in such learning and use the gained knowledge as a powerful tool in the urgently needed economic ,social transformations of our time --to carve a better future, a new economic and social paradigm

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