Human Rights Education Associates

Past Projects

In 2025, HREA conducted a session for the Human Rights Research Network of Ghent University (Brussels) on the human rights-based approach to higher education.

In 2024 HREA assisted the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo with the preparation of six modules addressing refugees, children’s rights, international humanitarian law, human rights defenders and genocide.

In 2024, HREA carried out an on-site session on the Human Rights-Based Approach with the Netherlands’ College voor de Rechten van de Mens (National Human Rights Institute).

HREA offers tailored training for NGOs, governmental and international-governmental agencies on human rights-based programming, human rights education, human rights advocacy, monitoring & evaluation, and gender & human rights.

In 2023, HREA assisted the UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect in the preparation of an online course on the UN Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech.

In 2022, HREA collaborated with the Human Rights Team of the American Psychological Association(APA) in delivering online training on the human rights-based approach to APA staff.

Between 2018 and 2020, HREA’s director worked with the OSCE/ODIHR in implementing a human rights education curriculum development & training project with the Belarusian Ministry of Education.

HREA’s Distance Learning Program was launched in 2001 in response to a large-scale worldwide survey among human rights defenders, educators and humanitarian and development workers which indicated a huge need for more (specialized) training opportunities in remote or hard to reach areas. Since then, HREA has offered almost 500 self-directed and instructor-led courses in which over 10,500 human rights defenders and humanitarian workers from 130 countries successfully participated.

Other past clients include the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF), Commonwealth Secretariat, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Office of the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth (Toronto), Plan International, SOS Children’s Villages International, UNDP, UNICEF, and the Victoria Police (Australia).