Why Promote Human Rights Education?
Action-Professionals’ Association for the People (APAP) is an Ethiopian non-governmental organization (NGO) originally conceived in 1993 to promote human rights and to disseminate information about human rights. That was the spirit in which APAP developed this guide to human rights education (HRE). It is a teaching resource for human rights educators and facilitators of learning groups involved in non-formal education. There are several reasons why we are undertaking HRE. We seek to promote human rights in Ethiopia because: (1) the international community has strongly and repeatedly endorsed HRE; (2) we believe in the right to education affirmed in the Ethiopian Constitution and the Ethiopian Education Policy Statement; (3) we believe in the right to know our rights; and (4) although Ethiopia is not yet a signatory to the Charter, we want to help ensure the kind of effective human rights education specifically called for by the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. 1. Internati
