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Consultative Group on Human Rights Education with young people

Role and Mandate of the Consultative Group

1. Role of the group

The Joint Council on Youth, at its meeting in March 2010, took note of the conclusions and proposals of the evaluation meeting of the forum “Living, Learning, Acting for Human Rights”, organised in October 2009 at the European Youth Centres in Budapest and Strasbourg.

In its decision, the Joint Council:

  1. Instructed the secretariat to prepare the follow-up and implementation of the forum’s conclusions as proposed by the evaluation and follow-up meeting:
  2. Agreed on the setting up of an informal Consultative Group on Human Rights Education to support and advise on the follow-up of the forum;
  3. Invited the European Steering Committee on Youth and the Advisory Council on Youth to consider implementation of follow-up proposals within their field of competence;
  4. Asked the secretariat for a progress report on this matter at its meeting in Spring 2011within process of implementation of the Agenda 2020.

The Evaluation and follow-up meeting of the forum on human rights education “Living, Learning, Acting for Human Rights” discussed and proposed the role and function of the group as follows:

“A group of experts should be set up to advise the secretariat on the implementation of the recommendations. This group should:

  • Propose standards (approaches, core principles, general approaches, indicators…) for human rights education through non-formal learning and youth work; taking into account already existing documents from the UN and the upcoming charter of the Council of Europe;
  • Liaise with other sectors of the Council of Europe active in human rights education in view of developing synergies, common approaches and avoiding duplication;
  • Provide expert advise on the implementation of specific activities projects and tools;
  • Support the process of streamlining human rights education with children and with young people in the work of the Directorate of Youth and Sport;
  • Make proposals for gender mainstreaming in all the human rights education activities and for the inclusion an intercultural learning perspective;
  • Support the process of implementation and evaluation of the Agenda 2020 in relation to human rights education.”

2. Composition of the group

As for the composition of the group, the evaluation meeting suggested:

  • Two members of the Advisory Council on Youth
  • Two members of the European Steering Committee on Youth
  • A representative of the European Youth Forum
  • Representatives of the European networks for human rights education with children or young people (maximum two per meeting)
  • A member of the Advisory Group of the project Learning Democracy and Human Rights of the Directorate of Education and Languages
  • Representatives of other international organisations or partners interested in the work of the group.

3. Frequency of Meetings

The group is of an informal nature and is directly related to the programme of activities of the Directorate of Youth and Sport.

A second meeting of the group is foreseen for 2011, to be confirmed after the meeting of the Joint Council in Spring 2011.

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