1 October 2015
On 25 September 2015, Sneh Aurora from Amnesty International represented HRE 2020 in the side event entitled “Human Rights Education and Training: Achievements and Perspectives”, organised in parallel with the Human Rights Council 30th Session. This panel discussion sponsored by Morocco, Costa Rica, Italy, Philippines, Senegal, Slovenia, Switzerland and Thailand (as members of the Platform for Human Rights Education and Training) brought together diplomats, as well as non-governmental and intergovernmental organisation representatives, to discuss the importance of human rights education particularly in the context of the post-2015 development agenda.
The overall purpose of the side event was to reiterate the importance of human rights education and to explore the synergies that can be developed among various actors in this field including with a...