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[19 November 2007] - Organisations and institutions from Europe, Central Asia and North America are invited to submit examples of good practice for a compendium on human rights education. These could include citizenship education and education for mutual respect and understanding. Submissions are being accepted for the primary and secondary level schooling sectors, including teacher training institutions. A good practice denotes a strategy resulting in the successful teaching and learning of human rights values and competencies. Good practice might be demonstrated through a learning activity, a methodological tool, an audio-visual resource or a documented programme design intended for the formal education sector. The document examples of areas of good practice contains examples of the kinds of practices envisioned for the Compendium. Materials selected for inclusion will be distributed widely for public use, both electronically and in hard copy, thus providing high visibility for your good practice. Organisations with existing copyrights on their materials will retain these rights but will need to provide permission for the translation and dissemination of the materials through the Compendium. This is a joint initiative of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE/ODIHR), the Council of Europe, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Deadline for submissions: 1 December 2007 For the submission form and more information on this project please refer to the website of Human Rights Education Associates (HREA), which is assisting in the preparation of the compendium, at the address: http://www.hrea.org/compendium/ Further information