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Human Rights Embassy is part of the project “Human Rights Guide - human rights education for strengthening the respect of rule of law and democratic values”
The project aims to inform and educate people about human rights and to build a human rights culture by developing and expanding accessible, modern and community-oriented human rights education tools and programmes in the Eastern Partnership countries of Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Armenia.
The cornerstone of the project is the Human Rights Guide - a European scale collaboration project initiated by the Latvian non-governmental organisation Baltic Human Rights Society. The Guide is an online, community-oriented, universal and easy-to-use human rights education and self-help platform. It explains human rights in an easy-to-understand way through topics with which anyone can identify, and is structured and designed to easily guide people through the most important information. In addition, the Guide includes a number of elements that reinforce the educational angle: resources, human rights knowledge assessment tests, Catalogue of Rights and Case Box. Currently the Guide is available in eight European Union countries and three Eastern partnership countries in national languages along with translations into Russian and English at www.humanrightsguide.eu. The content of the Guide in each country is prepared specifically for it based on national legislation, case law and human rights priorities.
To achieve the goals of this project, the Human Rights Guide will be soon developed in Armenia. In Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, where the Human Rights Guide platform was launched as a pilot in November 2023, it will be further expanded with new human rights education content relevant to these countries, introduced into educational curricula, disseminated and used in human rights education activities for professional target groups and the general public.
The development and operation of the project's intellectual outputs will ensure that members of the public and professional target groups have access to quality human rights information, covering educational and self-help materials and human rights learning methodologies and courses. Human rights awareness will ensure that as a result of the project, the users will be able to apply human rights to their own life situations or in the performance of their work, and will increase their competence in seeking public services. It will also contribute to the development of good governance and active and quality participation in democratic processes and public life. In addition, the Human Rights Guide provides significant support for the beneficiary countries in the EU integration process - it allows a comparison of the EU human rights framework and standards with those of the candidate countries, highlighting gaps, shortcomings and assisting the legislator in achieving EU accession criteria.
The project is being financially supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia under the development cooperation programme. The project is being implemented in cooperation with the partner organisations in the Eastern Partnership countries – the Kyiv Human Rights Hub (Ukraine), Foundation for the Support of Legal Education of GYLA (Georgia), Europe in Law (Armenia) and the Human Rights Embassy (Moldova).
The project is being supported by several associate partners - the Ombudsman of the Republic of Latvia, the Riga Graduate School of Law (Latvia), the Grigol Robakidze University (Georgia) and the Center for Civil Liberties (Ukraine), 2022 Novel Peace Prize winner. In Moldova project partners are the Offices of the People's Advocate of the Republic of Moldova (Ombudsman) and the Equality Council of the Republic of Moldova.
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