The Geneva Office for Human Rights Education (GO-HRE) is a non-profit legal entity whose purpose is to make human rights part of every child’s education. Dedicated to teaching the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, GO-HRE offers on a complimentary basis a non-partisan, non-sectarian, highly interactive curriculum, which, coupled with initial teacher training, helps countries meet their treaty obligations to provide human rights education to children and youth.
We call our teaching resources Colega, meaning friend or colleague. Colega’s logo represents children and their books, celebrating Human Rights Education. It suggests our child-centered approach to teaching and learning about Human Rights. Through human rights education, people acquire the knowledge, skills and commitment necessary to make a difference.
Important Background Information
Lessons & Languages
GO-HRE provides Colega materials at no cost for download. The lessons are available in multiple languages, currently English, French, Spanish and Tagalog. Click on the links to check out lessons in your preferred language.
The curriculum also includes worksheets, powerpoints and videos in English.
If the time comes in any society that the predominant culture does not sufficiently value… freedom of religion or speech or assembly or the other essential liberties that we sometimes take for granted… then laws, even constitutions, will not be sufficient to sustain and preserve them.
– D. Todd Christofferson
The right to
Freedom of religion or belief
The right to
Life, freedom and security
The right to
marriage and a family
The right to
education
The right to
protection against discrimination
The right to
seek asylum
The right to
protection from child labor
The right to
identity
The right to
protection against torture or bullying
our duty to each other
