UNESCO Chair for Human Rights Education

The Department of Political Science of Comenius University in Bratislava (Katedra politologie FiF UK v Bratislave) hosts a new project "Talking Courts", funded by the U.S. Embassy Slovakia and in collaboration with other partners including the Slovak Human Rights Olympics (Olympiáda ľudských práv), the UNESCO Chair for Human Rights Education and the Helsinský výbor pre ľudské práva na Slovensku/ Slovak Helsinki Committee. The project is primarily centered on education, capacity-building and development of informational and learning materials on the role of judicial power and judges in a democracy. Furthermore, it aims to develop and advance contacts between courts and the public as well as international awareness (especially Slovakia, USA and India). More information can be found at https://fphil.uniba.sk/en/talkingcourts/.

Interested candidates for volunteering roles or with any questions are welcome to reach out to the project team (contact details indicated at the project website).

Volunteering roles include:
- preparing and disseminating information and promotional content about the project;
- assisting with the preparation of the opening online event and the communication with stakeholders, including for events to be held in 2023;
- background research and collection of information and contacts on particular issues to be covered by the project;
- assistance with collection, adjustment and updating of educational materials and exercises for the workshops for high school students;
- if language skills permit, translation of content from English to Slovak and/or from Slovak to English;
- potentially, and depending on qualification and performance, conducting an in-person workshop with high school students on the topic at a designated high school.

Volunteers who have contributed to the project will receive a certificate of recognition listing their involvement and be mentioned on the LinkedIn page of the project (if they have a profile on the platform) and, in case of longer collaboration, the project website.

Talking Courts Talking Courts AboutTalking Courts aims to contribute to engaging with the practices and challenges of contemporary judiciary in Slovakia towards a broad audience. Courts are often perceived as isolated from the broader society their decisions less visible than those of the executive or the legislat...

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NOW AVAILABLE: The audiovisual highlights of the international seminar on ‘Education for a Europe of Rights’. The video provides an insight into the atmosphere and discussions during the seminar and serves as a starting point for more in-depth information about the status quo, challenges and opportunities for human rights education in four Central European countries. Watch at https://youtu.be/q8bHpmqlZpc and all discussions in unabridged version at http://bit.ly/EERYoutube.

Education for a Europe of Rights | International Project Some of the highlights from the year-long educational project mapping the status quo, challenges and perspectives of the education for human rights, democrac...

What is the status quo of education for human rights, democracy and European values in Slovakia as compared to Czechia, Hungary and Romania in an international perspective? How can the challenges associated with, among others, the lack of political actors‘ attention to this subject be transformed into opportunities for enhancing the emphasis on and the quality of HR education? This and more is covered in the final report from the international project ‘Education for a Europe of Rights’ supported by the Allianz Kulturstiftung, Human RightS Initiative (HRSI) at Central European University and other partners including the UNESCO Chair for Human Rights Education at Comenius University. The report is freely available online at http://bit.ly/EERReport.

Professor Miroslav Kusý (1931-2019) was the founder and first Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair for Human Rights Education. His career was intertwined with Comenius University where he lectured in the 1960s until he was prohibited to continue his academic career during the normalization era of the 1970s and 1980s. Shortly after the Velvet Revolution, he was appointed Rector of the Comenius University and served as Founding Head of the Department of Political Science at the university. Furthermore, he was among the initiators of the nation-wide internationally renowned human rights competition for high school students, the Human Rights Olympics.
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R.I.P., pán profesor. Prof. Miroslav Kusý, † 87

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The EER symposium on December 1 and 2, 2017, brought invaluable perspectives on the importance as well as challenges of human rights education in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania in an international perspective. Thanks go to all organizers and partners of the symposium, in particular to Allianz Kulturstiftung and CEU's Human RightS Initiative (HRSI). The presentations of some speakers and the final program can be downloaded from https://kulturstiftung.allianz.de/en/funding_and_projects/alumni_network/jackpot_projects/ (under the tab 'Education for a Europe of Rights)'. More materials to follow in 2018.
Photos: © Stefan Roch