The ABCs of Human Rights: Community & Human Rights

Welcome back to MHREC’s The ABCs of Human Rights: A Community Voice Project.

We believe that education works best when it is not a one-way process. Instead of simply presenting information, we want to create spaces where people can share, reflect, and co-create knowledge together. That philosophy is at the heart of our new project.

Learning together

Participants will explore human rights through the alphabet, using simple words and concepts as a starting point. But the real value comes from what happens next: discussion, sharing of experiences, and reflections from the group. These conversations make the content relevant to everyday lives.

Reflection question: When have you felt your voice really mattered in a learning space?

Turning voices into a collective resource

As part of the project, participants’ feedback and reflections will be gathered to create a booklet. This is not a textbook written by experts. It is a living record of community perspectives, showing how human rights are understood and experienced by the people in the room.

This booklet will then be shared with local councils and community organisations, ensuring that participants’ voices reach decision-makers and have a lasting impact.

Reflection question: If you could choose one human right to highlight in the booklet, which would it be and why?

A participatory and empowering process

By valuing participants’ contributions, the project strengthens confidence and a sense of ownership. Everyone becomes not just a learner, but also a teacher and a contributor to a bigger conversation.

This participatory approach ensures that human rights education is not abstract, but practical, inclusive, and rooted in the lived realities of the community.

The ABCs of Human Rights: A Community Voice Project is built on this simple idea: that knowing our rights helps us use them, defend them, and make sure they are upheld for everyone.

This non-formal learning opportunity is co-funded under Erasmus+ through the Directorate for Lifelong Learning and Employability (DLE) within the Ministry for Education, Sport, Youth, Research and Innovation (MEYR).