HURIGHTS OSAKA is convening a meeting of human rights educators involved in the formal education system to discuss the following issues: a. existing national initiatives on human rights education in schools; b. cooperation between non-governmental organizations and government institutions in this area; c. use of cultural values-human rights framework in human rights education in schools; and d. nature and program of workshops, as well as the qualifications of participants, which HURIGHTS OSAKA can hold in the near future. Invited participants come from several Asian countries. The meeting is being organized in Bangkok on September 23-25, 1997.
This meeting follows the research partners' meeting held in January this year in Osaka.