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2021-07-07 11:52:30 Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On 30 June 2021, a Stakeholder Meeting on Documentary Heritage in Accessible Formats was held in Mongolia, organized by the Mongolian National Commission for UNESCO, with support of the UNESCO Beijing Cluster Office, in close consultation with the Ministry of Culture of Mongolia.    Twenty-one key stakeholders in the domain of digitization of heritage documents in Mongolia, including representatives from libraries, archives and museums, IT specialists, as well as representatives from organizations of persons with disabilities and o...

The creation of a national committee in Rwanda will help the country to develop a strategy and plan for the identification, preservation and accessibility of its documentary heritage.Mr. Albert Mutesa, Secretary-General of the Rwanda National Commiss

NHRC boss, stakeholders push for human rights education in schools On By Tordue Salem, Abuja Executive Secretary of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Tony Ojukwu has called for a stronger commitment of stakeholders in entrenching a culture of respect for human rights and dignity in schools across the Country. Ojukwu stated this in Abuja during a workshop on the implementation of human rights education in the school system in Nigeria. The NHRC Boss said the workshop which was organized by the Commission with support from the Danish Institute for Human Rights has created another platfor...

Law and Human Rights Events and Communications Team lawhrcevents@essex.ac.uk Please join us for a two day webinar workshop hosted by the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. The field of human rights education is wide and is conducted in a range of different settings, formal and informal, at many different levels. All human rights educators and students of human rights have an interest in human rights education. The critical importance of human rights education as a conduit for human rights and in securing global peace was first recognised in the Universal Decla...