Training
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.
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 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.
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).