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Hugh Starkey

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Emeritus Professor of Citizenship and Human Rights Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, London UK. Treasurer of International Association for Human Rights Education

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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🎉HRER’s webinar series resumes this month , with Sadiya Osman PhD from University of #Leicester talking about her research published in HRER 🎉Navigating academia: the intersectional experiences of Black Muslim female students in UK higher education 🎉To register global-iahre.org/webinar-seri...
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2026 HRER webinars series 2 We are delighted to announce the programme for series 2, autumn 2026 All past webinars can be viewed on our Human Rights Education Review YouTube channel. Register below…
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
📍HRER runs a webinar series profiling selected articles from the journal 📍Check out past webinars on our YouTube channel 📍Here’s one from May 2026 featuring @carmelward.bsky.social from @childrensrightsqub.bsky.social & @earlychildhoodireland.ie m.youtube.com/watch?v=5m8V...
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HRER Webinar Series 3/2026
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Check out @sadiyaosman.bsky.social #OpenAccess article & don’t forget to tune in for her presentation on Tuesday 8 September 16.30 (London) 17.30 (CET) @tandfresearch.bsky.social @jamescoggins-tandf.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/2535...
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Navigating academia: the intersectional experiences of Black Muslim female students in UK higher education
This article critically explores the structural and cultural exclusions faced by Black Muslim women (BMW) in higher education HE in the UK. It addresses the persistent elitism and growing awareness...
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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Conference dates are 14-15 June! Not 25th!
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Announcing 4th International Association for Human Rights Education annual conference 📅14-25 June 2027 📅Deadline CfP 19 October 2026 🏟️OsloMet University & the prestigious Oslo City Hall -home of the annual Nobel Peace Prize ceremony ®️Registration & further details: global-iahre.org/research/
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Claire Cock-Starkey @nonfictioness.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Very pleased to say I've had another article published based on my PhD research. 'Magical thinking, folklore, and pluralities of belief: Death omens in nineteenth-century rural England' is out now in the Journal of Victorian Culture @jofvictculture.bsky.social Reply if you'd like link to read it
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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Excited to be presenting ‘Where are you from? No, where are you really from?’ in #Finland, where I’m currently writer-in-residence at Hub Feenix 📅 Saturday 5 September during Konstrundan ⏰14.00 🐦‍🔥Hub Feenix Meltola Further details: www.hubfeenix.fi/events/99
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🎉Latest issue: Human Rights Education in Latin America 🎉7 original articles HRE in Argentina Ecuador Chile Colombia Puerto Rico 🎉 #OpenAccess @tandfresearch.bsky.social 🎉Activism, Indigenous rights, child participation & more 🎉Read Melina Porto & Leonel Perez Exposito doi.org/10.1080/2535...
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A Latin American agenda for human rights education
Published in Human Rights Education Review (Vol. 9, No. 2, 2026)
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Gabriela Martinez Sainz @gmsainz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The digital environment has fundamentally altered HRE by creating networked spaces for collective action while learning about, for and through rights [...] in Latin America these transformations have not occurred in isolation from the region’s rich pedagogical traditions doi.org/10.1080/2535...
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Popular education in the digital age: activism and young human rights defenders in Latin America
This paper examines how young human rights defenders (HRDs) in Latin America experience educational processes related to human rights within the digital environment, to map the possibilities and te...
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
HRER Editor, Audrey Osler, reflects on the impact of global events on human rights education & on threats faced by human rights educators & researchers. She highlights measures researchers can take to strengthen the multidisciplinary project that is human rights education doi.org/10.1080/2535...
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Is human rights education under threat? And, if so, what can we do about it?
Published in Human Rights Education Review (Vol. 9, No. 1, 2026)
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
⭐️Check out HRER’s latest article ⭐️What barriers do displaced #Ukranian students face in claiming their right to education in the EU? ⭐️Available #OpenAccess ⭐️ @yanasychikova.bsky.social Iryna Glazkova & Volodymyr Tatarin offer fresh insights on the support students need doi.org/10.1080/2535...
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Barriers to realising the right to education: displaced Ukrainian university students under temporary protection in the EU
This mixed-methods study examines barriers to realising the right to education among displaced Ukrainian university students under temporary protection in the European Union (EU), following Russia’...
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Our webinar series continues with @khadidjakelalech.bsky.social research on media misrepresentations of women in HE in #Algeria, exploring how these hinder the right to safely participate in education 📅Wed 17 June ⏰16.30 -17.30 UK Further details & registration global-iahre.org/webinar-seri...
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2026 HRER webinars series 1 We are delighted to announce that our webinar series is recommencing March- June 2026 with series 2 planned for later in the year.   Register for the webinar below.…
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
⭐️If you missed our webinar today you can catch up on YouTube channel ⭐️Listen to @carmelward.bsky.social discuss her research with young children, eliciting their understandings of human rights @beategold.bsky.social @kalpanid.bsky.social @earlyyearsed.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=5m8V...
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HRER Webinar Series 3/2026
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Calling all engaged in #Childrights 📣 @carmelward.bsky.social will share her groundbreaking research with young children 📣Join our next HRER webinar & discover how she elicits children’s perspectives 📅Wednesday 20 May ⏰16.30-17.30 London/Dublin Register global-iahre.org/webinar-seri...
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2026 HRER webinars series 1 We are delighted to announce that our webinar series is recommencing March- June 2026 with series 2 planned for later in the year.   Register for the webinar below.…
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
📣The right to play! 📣If you missed this innovative presentation by @carolynoei.bsky.social (or it was too late at night in your time zone) it’s now available on HRER’s YouTube channel 📣Check it out here m.youtube.com/watch?v=pg95... @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social Pls repost for reach 🙏🏽
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HRER Webinar Series 2/2026 The right to play: Children’s right to play in Singapore
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
If you who missed the March HRER webinar where Anna Liddle spoke about her recent HRER article : ‘The Riskiness of #Gaza in the Classroom’ … catch up now on YouTube Do check it out and share @beategold.bsky.social @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=fOWi...
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HRER Webinar Series 1/2026 The Riskiness of Gaza in the Classroom
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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Looking forward to seeing many colleagues, students & community members in Drammen, Norway next week
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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
⭐️Looking forward to this @oslomet.bsky.social next Wednesday 25 March @beategold.bsky.social ⭐️We will be looking at the critical role of #HRE in these turbulent times ⭐️If you’re in Oslo & interested in #HumanRightsEducation, this is for you @kalpanid.bsky.social @hrer.bsky.social
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The riskiness of Gaza in the classroom This recent HRER article has attracted much interest #ControversialIssues #HumanRightsEducation #FreedomOfSpeech Join author @annaliddle.bsky.social for a live webinar ⏰Wednesday 18 March 16.30 GMT Register now! global-iahre.org/webinar-seri...
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2026 HRER webinars series 1 We are delighted to announce that our webinar series is recommencing March- June 2026 with series 2 planned for later in the year.   Register for the webinar below.…
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Lee Jerome @citizenlj.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/derc/2026/02... Great challenge here - we really need to address this gap in ITE provision if the new curriculum has a hope
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The role of specialist teachers of Citizenship in England in challenging global times | UCL Development Education Research Centre Blog
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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
⭐️I’m delighted to be speaking at #IAHRE2026 in Muenster, Germany 25-26 May with speakers from 16+ countries ⭐️Do join us ⭐️Great networking ⭐️Full programme available online ⭐️Earlybird registration open until 4 March & discounts for IAHRE members ⭐️Check it out: global-iahre.org/research/
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Join us on 18 March, when @annaliddle.bsky.social of Sheffield Hallam University will discuss: The Riskiness of Gaza in the Classroom. Check out Anna’s article here. It’s Open Access doi.org/10.1080/2535...
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The riskiness of Gaza in the classroom: the experiences of UK teachers during an unfolding human rights crisis
In October 2023, Israel invaded Gaza after an attack by Hamas, the repercussions of which reached classrooms across the world. This paper reports on a study conducted in May-July 2024 with secondar...
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🎉We’re excited to publish our 1st article focusing on #Singapore & 1st on CRC Article 31 the right to play 🎉Author @carolynoei.bsky.social argues right to play enables other rights 🎉A must-read for all concerned with building equitable societies where children can flourish doi.org/10.1080/2535...
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Children’s right to play: Tak Takut Kids Club and steps towards human rights-based education in Singapore
This is a documentary analysis of Tak Takut Kids Club (TTKC), a community space for children, exploring ways in which TTKC uses play to enhance children’s lives and improve their future life chance...
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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This brand new article is certainly worth checking out!
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
⭐️IAHRE 2026 Münster now open for registration ⭐️Reimagining Human Rights Education in a Turbulent World ⭐️Earlybird rate til 4 March 2026 ⭐️Network with HRE researchers, activists & HRER editors ⭐️Keynotes: @afelia.bsky.social Annedore Prengel audreyosler.bsky.social global-iahre.org/research/
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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Honoured to be a keynote speaker at #IAHRE2026 And excited to meet so many delegates from across the globe engaged in #HumanRights Education Do join us if you can Registration is open & places are filling up fast! Special rates available until 4 March 2026 global-iahre.org/research/
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3rd International IAHRE Conference 26-27 May 2026 – Münster, Germany
Re-imagining Human Rights Education in a Turbulent World Abstract Deadline Extended until 17 November 2025 Venue: Zfsl An den Speichern 5, 48157 Münster, Germany Conference Announcement and Call fo…
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
We know this has been a challenging year for all dedicated to greater justice and rights. These are difficult times, with moments of uncertainty and loss. But what carries us through, and gives us hope for a better future, is each other.
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Festive Greetings from HRER We are thankful. To our authors, readers, reviewers, guest editors, human rights activists, researchers, and educators across the word, we value you! Your support during this year of growth and development for HRER has inspired us.
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
⭐️We’re excited to announce this article exploring how young children, their parents, carers & teachers understand their rights ⭐️A ground-breaking article on #HumanRightsEducation in early childhood by @carmelward.bsky.social ⭐️Deserves to be widely read ⭐️ #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1080/2535...
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Recontextualising young children’s human rights education in Rwanda
Children’s human rights education in early childhood should be constructed in contextualised ways that respect traditional values, yet dominant Western-centred research often overlooks cultural syn...
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
⭐️NEW article from Shuang Huang @jldevincenzo.bsky.social & Thomas Chandler @columbiauniversity.bsky.social on ⭐️positioning Gen AI in #HumanRightsEducation, addressing disaster risk reduction & youth #empowerment ⭐️AVAILABLE FREE ACCESS FOR A LIMITED PERIOD ONLY Check it out! doi.org/10.1080/2535...
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Positioning generative AI within human rights education: a scalable framework for inclusive disaster risk reduction and youth empowerment
As global challenges like climate change and social inequities intensify, inclusive, rights-based education is increasingly urgent. Human rights education (HRE) empowers youth to understand and adv...
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Exploring how stories with female role models might contribute education for girls’ rights Kate Mackenzie explores possible tensions between human rights & global citizenship values @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/2535...
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Real-life and fictional role models as a resource for rights education for and about girls
Mae Jemison, Little People Big Dreams by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara and Janna Morton, tells the story of the first African American woman astronaut. In the novel Johnny Mad Dog by Emmanuel Dongala...
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
✔️NEW Call for Papers from HRER ✔️Intercultural history, human rights and citizenship education for inclusion in diverse societies ✔️Scholars are encouraged to submit abstracts by 6 January 2026 ✔️Invited papers due by 31 May 2026 For further details visit global-iahre.org/get-involved/
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Special Issue 2027: Intercultural history, human rights, and citizenship education for inclusion in diverse societies Call for Papers: deadline for abstract submission – 6 January 2026&n…
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
⭐️NEW #OpenAccess article by Lasni Buddhihashika Jayasooriya ⭐️Examines Sri Lankan #civics curriculum ⭐️ #HRE for living together #postconflict #peace #SriLanka #GlobalCitizenshipEd ⭐️in Special Issue on #gce with editors @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social & Jia Ying Neoh doi.org/10.1080/2535...
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Human Rights Education and Global Citizenship: an analysis of Sri Lankan Civic Education curricula
Human Rights Education (HRE) is crucial for Sri Lanka, having endured a 26-year-long civil war and various violent experiences arising from ethnic, religious and political tensions. In the context ...
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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Delighted to be publishing this, HRER’s first article focusing on #SriLanka Hoping to publish many more! @hrer.bsky.social has an open call for papers @kalpanid.bsky.social @rkshanks.bsky.social @suzanneegan.bsky.social @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
We are delighted to publish this article by @yuliasnesterova.bsky.social & colleagues @uofglasgow.bsky.social examining #HumanRights in #GlobalCitizenshipEd using 2 case studies: #IDPs in #Azerbaijan #Indigenous people in Taiwan #OpenAccess @tandfresearch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/2535...
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Five pillars of transformative global citizenship education: toward integration of the rights of Indigenous Peoples and internally displaced peoples
This conceptual paper proposes a Global Citizenship Education (GCE) framework that is inclusive and supportive of the rights of two of the most marginalised communities: Indigenous Peoples and refu...
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Caroline Ferguson @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
New Special Issue published! @hrer.bsky.social Global citizenship education and human rights. What are the connections? Outstanding articles that expand concepts of GCE & HRE. Read our editorial here ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Interrogating the intersections of global citizenship and human rights education
Published in Human Rights Education Review (Vol. 8, No. 3, 2025)
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Caroline Ferguson @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Call for Conference Abstracts! #humanrightsed #humanrights #cfp Theme: Re-imagining Human Rights Education in a Turbulent World 26-27 May Münster Germany global-iahre.org/research/
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3rd International IAHRE Conference 26-27 May 2026 – Münster, Germany
Re-imagining Human Rights Education in a Turbulent World Abstract Deadline Extended until 17 November 2025 Venue: Zfsl An den Speichern 5, 48157 Münster, Germany Conference Announcement and Call fo…
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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
✅Just a few days left to submit your abstract to #IAHRE2026 ✅Deadline is 17 November ✅A friendly conference where all are welcome
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
How do we teach difficult history & avoid ethnonationalism when facing the past? Boeun Cha #Yonsei University Seoul & Jing Williams University of South Dakota discuss case of #ComfortWomen #HistoryEd #GCE & #HRE special issue @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social & Jia Ying Neoh doi.org/10.1080/2535...
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Empowering global citizens beyond nationalism: teaching the ‘comfort women’ history through human rights education in South Korea
This qualitative case study examines how human rights education (HRE) is integrated into teaching the history of Japanese military ‘comfort women’ in South Korea to empower students as global citiz...
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🎉Today marks 75th anniversary of European Convention on Human Rights. 🎉Let’s strengthen human rights education- something we all need to protect us 🎉join International Association for Human Rights Education to network & support HRE research global-iahre.org
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
⭐️IAHRE 2026 has just extended the deadline for abstract submissions for the annual conference in May 2026 until 17 November 2025. ⭐️It will take place in the charming town of Muenster, Germany 26-27 May ⭐️We look forward to welcoming you ⭐️Check out the full details here global-iahre.org/research/
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3rd International IAHRE Conference 26-27 May 2026 – Münster, Germany
Re-imagining Human Rights Education in a Turbulent World Abstract Deadline Extended until 17 November 2025 Venue: Zfsl An den Speichern 5, 48157 Münster, Germany Conference Announcement and Call fo…
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
HRER is delighted to announce Special Issue 8(3) Global Citizenship Education & Human Rights 12 articles on #GCE & #HRE from #Azerbaijan #Australia #China #SouthKorea #SriLanka #Pakistan #UK #USA 🎉Congratulations Guest Editors @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social & Jia Ying Neoh doi.org/10.1080/2535...
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Interrogating the intersections of global citizenship and human rights education
Published in Human Rights Education Review (Vol. 8, No. 3, 2025)
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
🎉Great to this important piece -how #HumanRights of Indigenous Peoples & IDPs are incorporated in #GlobalCitizenshipEd 🎉now available #OpenAccess 🎉Congratulations @yuliasnesterova.bsky.social & others @uofglasgow.bsky.social 🎉 @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social Jia Ying Neoh doi.org/10.1080/2535...
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UCL Constitution Unit @conunitucl.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
It is briefings day! We are releasing newly updated versions of our briefings, plus three new ones! The series covers topics from the constitutional principles that underpin democracy to the role of citizens' assemblies. Use this mega-thread to browse them. And find out more 👇
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Constitution Unit publishes new briefings on constitutional principles and the health of democracy
The Constitution Unit has today published new and updated briefings as part of its Constitutional Principles and the Health of Democracy project.
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
✅Check out HRER news for details of the Call for Papers for #IAHRE2026 conference ‘Re-imagining Human Rights Education in a Turbulent World’ ✅26-27 May 2025 Muenster, Germany ✅Abstracts due 3 Nov 2025 www.tandfonline.com/journals/rhr...
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Learn about Human Rights Education Review
Learn about Human Rights Education Review aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.
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Claire Cock-Starkey @nonfictioness.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Spotted Mythology Land on the shelves of Waterstones and Heffers in Cambridge this morning 😍
Row of beautiful illustrated children's books in Heffers, Cambridge, including my book Mythology Land Shelf of illustrated kids books in Waterstones Cambridge including my book Mythology Land
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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Deeply saddened to learn of the death of Conor Gearty His contribution as a human rights scholar has been immense His readiness to speak up for justice is one more human rights educators need to emulate www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
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‘Inspirational’ human rights lawyer Conor Gearty dies aged 67
President Michael D Higgins leads tributes for Longford-born law professor and author
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
You can sign up for new contents alerts at Human Rights Education Review here: www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...
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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
⭐️Really appreciate @drtoddlandman.bsky.social review of our edited book ‘Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education’ doi.org/10.1080/1891... ⭐️ @beategold.bsky.social & I are grateful for the support of a wonderful team of authors from #Denmark #Finland #Iceland #Norway #Sweden #Canada #US #UK
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Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education: Research and Practice for Social Justice
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