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The Human Rights-Based Approach: A Field of Action for Human Rights Education (Thematique Special Edition N°2) is now on line.

The human rights-based approach to development insists that development policies and programs must contribute explicitly to human rights. And that development programmes must be organized in a way that will strengthen the capacities of individuals (rights holders) to exercise and demand respect for their rights, and of states (duty bearers) to fulfil their human rights obligations.

From this perspective, shouldn’t human rights education and training be considered essential components of capacity building and, consequently, of the integration of human rights into development cooperation?

To answer that question, the present edition proposes to reaffirm the relevance of human rights to development cooperation (Part 1), and to discuss how the capacity building of rights holders and duty bearers can be implemented in practice (Part 2). in this 8 context, it is urgent to specify the role which we believe to be essential of human rights training and education, and to guarantee their integration into development programmes and policies.

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