Human Rights, Education and Dissemination A 21st Century Agenda

Abstract

The Second International Conference of the Human Rights Movement in the Arab World was held in Cairo from 13-16 October 2000, under the title of 'Human Rights, Education and Dissemination: A 21st Century Agenda'. The conference was held at the invitation of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIRHS), in coordination with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network. It came in response to the conclusions of the First International Conference of the Human Rights Movement in the Arab World, organized by the CIHRS (Casablanca, April 1999), at which was stated that utmost priority should be given to the tasks of human rights education and dissemination. There was a shared belief that citizens' awareness of their rights is the first line of defence of human rights.