Euro-Mediterranean Training Course for Human Rights Education with Young People

Taking into consideration the different challenges Lebanon and the region are facing and recognizing the potential of human rights education as one of the most fertile grounds for intercultural exchange and cooperation and confirming the need to deepen practices of human rights education as an educational approach to be used among young people in the region in support of the human rights development. The Partnership on Youth between the European Commission and the Council of Europe and the Human Rights Center in the Beirut Arab University (HRC-BAU) are organizing with the collaboration of Public Interest Advocacy Center (Pinacle) and Permanent Peace Movement (PPM) a training for trainers on human rights education using the manual “Compass”. The training will take place in Lebanon in the venue of the Beirut Arab University in Debbieh Campus from the 21st till the 29th of June 2009.