PROGRAMME
OF THE 8th INTERNATIONAL SESSION
ON HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION

December 15-19 , 1998, Moscow

Tuesday, December 15 1998

Opening ceremony, plenary meeting

9.00am-10.00am Registration

10.00am-10.30am Opening ceremony, greetings

Mr. Eduard Nikitin – Rector of the RF Academy for Upgrading Professional Standards and Retraining of Educators (AUPSRE), the Honored Teacher of Russia, Professor, Vice-President of the Association of Teachers for Civic Education

Mr. Igor Danilov – Deputy Director of UNESCO Representatives in Moscow

Mr. Valery Serikov – Head of Directorate of Humanitarian Education and Personal Development, Russian Ministry of Education

Mr. Mikhail Kabatchenko – President of the Educators for Peace and Understanding International Movement

Mr. Anatoly Azarov - Director of the Moscow School of Human Rights

10.30am -10.50am Mr. Oleg Mironov – Plenipotentiary on Human Rights in the Russian Federation: Legal Enlightenment on Human Rights and Freedoms Goals of the Plenipotentiary

10.50am-11.10am Mr.Vladimir Pavinsky – the United Nations Information Centre in Moscow: the Plan of Action of the UN Decade for Human Rights Education

11.10am-11.30am Mr. Igor Danilov – Deputy Director of UNESCO Representatives in Moscow: UNESCO Program 'Towards a Culture of Peace'. Project 'A Culture of Peace in Russia – Year 2000'.

11.30am-11.40am Break

11.40am-12.00am Mr. Maxim Ferschtman – Council of Europe, Directorate of Education, Culture and Sport: Council of Europe and Russia. Co-operation in civic and human rights education

12.00am -12.20am Ms. Jana Kviecinska - Amnesty International: First Steps – guidelines on human rights education in school

12.20am-12.40am Mr. Mikhail Kabatchenko - President of the International Movement 'Educators for Peace and Understanding', Vice-President of the Academy of Pedagogical and Social Sciences: The Culture of Peace in Teaching and Educational Process

12.40am-1.00pm Mr. Anatoly Azarov - Ph.D., Director of the Moscow School of Human Rights: Human Rights Education. Experience and Problems of Russia

1.00pm-2.00pm Lunch

2.00pm-6.00pm Work in the sections

General Education Section (schools, pedagogical higher and advanced training institutions)

Chairman – Ms. Tatiana Bolotina, Ph.D., Head of the Chair of Social and Political Education and Law, AUPSRE

Trainers- Ms.Jana Kviecinska, Amnesty International;

Ms.Galina Solntseva – Moscow Institute for Advanced Training of Educators, teacher of school # 1016 (UNESCO Associated School Project), Moscow

Higher Education Section

Chairman – Mr. Felix Rudinsky, Ph.D., Prof., Faculty of Law, Moscow State Pedagogical University

Section of Informal Education and Human Rights Movement Organisations

Chairman – Mr.Vladimir Borodich, Ph.D., the Chair of the Social and Political Education and Law, AUPSRE

Plenary Meeting

10.00am-10.30am Mr. Dan St.Louis, Ms.Janet Helin - Civic Education Project (USA): CEP Initiatives in the Field of Human Rights Education

10.30am-11.00am Mr. Felix Roudinski – Ph.D., Prof., Moscow State Pedagogical University: 'Higher schools – Human Rights Education'

11.00am-11.30am Mr.Poltorak D., Head of Teaching Tools Laboratory in Social Disciplines of the RAE Institute of General and Secondary Education, the Member of Presidium in the Scientific Enlightening Centre Holokost – Holokost Studying in the System of Social Disciplines in School

11.30am-11.40am Break

11.40am-12.30am Mr.Smirnov S.A., Co-ordinator of the Moscow Department of Inter-Regional Human Rights Movement Network Group: Dissemination of Human Rights Knowledge in the Internet: Experience of Human Rights Protection Network

1.00pm-2.00pm Lunch

2.00pm-6.00pm Section work

The participants of the Session are meeting with:

1. The Ombudsman if the Russian Federation;
2. Division on International Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
3. State Parliament (Duma), House on Human Rights of the Presidential Political and Consultative Council, Deputy Valery Borschiov;
4. COE Centre of Information and Documentation;
5. UNESCO Representatives in Moscow;
6. School # 1016 of UNESCO Associated Schools Project, Western District of Moscow;
7. Air Force Technical University (Zhukovsky Academy);
8. Moscow Helsinki Group;
9. The human rights protection,scientific, informational and enlightenment centre Memorial;
10. Moscow Research Centre for Human Rights:

• Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia
• Right of Mother Fund
• Independent Psychiatric Association
• Public Centre of Assistance for Reform of Criminal Justice
• The Rights of the Child Project
• Movement without Borders Group
• Association of Peoples with Disabilities Protection
• Human Rights Net Interregional Group etc.

Plenary Meeting

10.00am-11.30am Bill Bowring- Director of the Pan-European University, Eccex (United Kingdom): European Convention on Human Rights and Basic Freedoms. European Court on Human Rights

2.00pm Grand meeting 'The 50^th Anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights' (Administration of the President of Russia)

Summarizing

10.00am-10.20am Speech of the laureates of the Russian National Competition of Students' works 'Human Rights and the Future of Russia'

10.20am-11.00am Sections reports

11.00am-12.00am Discussion

12.00am-12.30am Awarding Ceremony of the laureates of the Russian National Competition of Students' works 'Human Rights and the Future of Russia'

12.30am-14.00pm Discussion. Closing Ceremony.

The Preparatory Committee

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