The Egyptian Centre for Human Rights Education

National Network
Egypt
Address

UL. Kreslarska 25 M2 53-224
Wroclaw
Poland

Telephone
0048694175161
E-Mail
tamirsoliman@echre.org
E-Mail (2)
info@echre.org
E-Mail (3)
t.pantoi@echre.org
Mobile Phone (other)
0048694175161
Website
http://www.echre.org
Organisation Type
Public/Private Non-Profit Foundation
Year of Establishment
2009
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
  2. Environment/Sustainable development
  3. Gender
  4. Human rights
  5. International/Cultural relations
  6. Media
  7. Others
  8. Research
  9. Youth and education
General Information
The Egyptian Centre for Human Rights Education(ECHRE) has - Board of Trustees, director, executive manager and fundraising manger. - Budgetary resources still a contribution from the founding team. - ECHRE has developed three projects to integrate human rights education in the higher educational level in the 17 public Universities in Egypt. a) University administration project b) teaching staff project and c) University students project. Echre has developed a project proposal for training course for trainers on HRE in the non formal Education. - Main partners are; 1) The Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University of Technology. Australia 2) Association for Austrian-Arab Youth and Student Cooperation. Austria 3) The Association of Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) . Egypt 4) Andalus Institute for Tolerance and anti-Violence Studies. Egypt 5) The Egyptian Union of Young Human Right Organizations. Egypt 6) European - Arab Youth Center-Wroclaw. Poland
Mission and Objectives

The mission of ECHRE is to promote formal and informal human rights education in Egypt and the Arab World as a whole by (a) focusing on the human rights education of children, youth, university students and young adults, (b) working towards the creation of a suitable institutional and legal environment for future generations of human rights advocates and defenders, (c) support existing local and regional human rights institutions and organisations with the same or similar fundamental objectives, (d) cooperating with local, regional and international scholars, activists and civil society organisations to achieve our mission, and (e) establishing strong networks between human rights educators from the Arab region and beyond.

Main Projects / Activities

Realising the need to adress youth and young people through informal educational methods with have established the Human Rights Club, which inter alia includes the set-up of a student and youth online radio and a discussion forum on human rights. In the context of the Human Rights Club, we employ different strategies to increase awareness to the importance human rights and human rights education. For example, we are currently creating an extensive bi-lingual human rights database on our website. The ECHRE Resource Center is an electronic gateway, serving as an access point for all people interested in learning about human rights, in particular from the Arab World. ECHRE continuously collects materials in both English and Arabic, focusing on international human rights documents, court decisions, educational/didactical materials, training guidelines, curriculas, NGO publications, reports, books and articles. The Resource Center also provides information on blogs, newsletters and forums in the field of human rights. A seperate sections contains useful audio and video materials.

Contact (1) Full Name
Tamer Soliman
Contact (2) Full Name
Thomas Pantoi