Human Rights Guide in Eastern Partnership countries

The Baltic Human Rights Society is launching the Human Rights Guide in the Eastern Partnership countries as of July 2022.

The Eastern Partnership countries - Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine - are still on the road to democracy. The important question is how to build, sustain and further strengthen a culture of democracy and human rights in these countries. The human rights and good governance situation in these countries indicates long-standing problems, one of the reasons being the lack of human rights awareness and knowledge both in society at large and in the public administration sector. This sector is directly or indirectly confronted with the application of human rights in its daily work. Access to information and education is widely recognised as one of the key resources needed for the development of a democratic, active and confident society.
Therefore, the project aims to inform and educate people about human rights and to build a human rights culture by developing accessible, modern and community-oriented human rights education tools and programmes in the Eastern Partnership countries of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
To achieve this goal, the project will develop the Human Rights Guide, an online, accessible, community-oriented, universal and easy-to-use human rights education and self-help platform in each partner country. This platform is already available in several European countries (humanrightsguide.eu) and will be implemented and adapted in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine as part of this project. The Human Rights Guide 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 and a Catalogue of Rights.

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. 

Human rights awareness will ensure that as a result of the project,  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.

The project will undertake the following activities to ensure the development, dissemination and sustainability of the Human Rights Guide in the partner countries: 

  • Establishing partnerships with associated partners: public institutions, NGOs, and educational institutions in the partner countries; 
  • Development of cooperation agreements, work, research and publicity plans;
  • Adaptation and development of the content of the Human Rights Guide in each partner country, technical solutions and the continuing online operation of the Guide;
  • Publicity activities and events; 
  • Organisation of launch events for the Guide in all project countries, 
  • Two project partner meetings in Riga and Tbilisi.

The project is being financially supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia under the "Development Cooperation Projects and International Aid" Programme. The project is being implemented in cooperation with partner organisations in the Eastern Partnership countries – the Centre for Civil Liberties (Ukraine), the Human Rights Embassy (Moldova) and Foundation for the Support of Legal Education of GYLA (Georgia). The project is being supported by the Ombudsman of the Republic of Latvia and Estonian Human Rights Centre and Human Rights Voice - Human Rights Guide partners in Estonia and Lithuania as associate partners.

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