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Rights & Civic Education

Know your rights. Use your voice.

Structured modules on human rights awareness, civic participation and international treaties — plus a repository that translates treaty-body recommendations into plain language anyone can act on.

Curriculum

Learning tracks

Know your rights: where they come from, what they guarantee, and how they are limited.

Foundational2 hours · 4 lessons

What are human rights?

The idea of universal, indivisible rights and the difference between rights, privileges and aspirations.

Lessons

  1. 1.The origins of human rights language
  2. 2.Universal, inalienable and indivisible
  3. 3.Duties of the state and duties of others
  4. 4.Limits on rights: when and how
Foundational2 hours · 3 lessons

Equality and non-discrimination

Protected grounds, direct and indirect discrimination, and the right to an effective remedy.

Lessons

  1. 1.Grounds of discrimination
  2. 2.Direct, indirect and structural discrimination
  3. 3.Remedies when discrimination happens
Intermediate3 hours · 4 lessons

Documenting and reporting violations

Practical skills for recording, verifying and safely escalating rights violations.

Lessons

  1. 1.What a credible record contains
  2. 2.Consent, privacy and redaction
  3. 3.Where to report: police, ombudsman, courts
  4. 4.When and how to alert HRV

Interactive repository

Concluding Observations & Recommendations

Each entry pairs the original recommendation with a plain-language explanation, the treaty provisions it rests on, and HRV's commentary. Filter by treaty body or search by topic.

Sample notice: entries are illustrative placeholders pending verified treaty-body texts.

Original recommendation

“The State party should ensure that restrictions on expression comply with article 19(3), including by reviewing offences of spreading false information and insulting state authorities so that they cannot be used to penalise legitimate criticism.”

Simplified explanation

Laws against 'false information' and 'insulting authorities' must not be used to punish people for criticising the government. The state should rewrite these laws so they only punish real, serious harm.

Treaty provisions

ICCPR · 19UDHR · 19

HRV commentary & analysis

HRV's monitoring shows these exact provisions are the basis of most prosecutions against journalists and online commentators. We recommend the repository track every case brought under them.