Hugh Starkey
hughstarkey.bsky.social
Hugh Starkey
@hughstarkey.bsky.social

Emeritus Professor of Citizenship and Human Rights Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, London UK. Treasurer of International Association for Human Rights Education

Education 40%
Political science 29%
Join us on 18 March, when @annaliddle.bsky.social of Sheffield Hallam University will discuss: The Riskiness of Gaza in the Classroom.
Check out Anna’s article here. It’s Open Access doi.org/10.1080/2535...

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🎉We’re pleased to announce issue 9.1 is published

🎉12 original #HRE articles with research in 10 countries

🎉Read @audreyosler.bsky.social editorial: ‘Is HRE under threat? And, if so, what can we do about it?’

🎉Check out this exciting issue! @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Is human rights education under threat? And, if so, what can we do about it?
Published in Human Rights Education Review (Vol. 9, No. 1, 2026)
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This brand new article is certainly worth checking out!
🎉We’re excited to publish our 1st article focusing on #Singapore & 1st on CRC Article 31 the right to play
🎉Author @carolynoei.bsky.social argues right to play enables other rights
🎉A must-read for all concerned with building equitable societies where children can flourish
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Children’s right to play: Tak Takut Kids Club and steps towards human rights-based education in Singapore
This is a documentary analysis of Tak Takut Kids Club (TTKC), a community space for children, exploring ways in which TTKC uses play to enhance children’s lives and improve their future life chance...
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Hi Claire. Only just seen this. Many congratulations! Love ❤️

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Honoured to be a keynote speaker at #IAHRE2026

And excited to meet so many delegates from across the globe engaged in #HumanRights Education

Do join us if you can
Registration is open & places are filling up fast!
Special rates available until 4 March 2026

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⭐️IAHRE 2026 Münster now open for registration

⭐️Reimagining Human Rights Education in a Turbulent World

⭐️Earlybird rate til 4 March 2026

⭐️Network with HRE
researchers, activists & HRER editors

⭐️Keynotes:
@afelia.bsky.social
Annedore Prengel
audreyosler.bsky.social

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We know this has been a challenging year for all dedicated to greater justice and rights. These are difficult times, with moments of uncertainty and loss. But what carries us through, and gives us hope for a better future, is each other.
Festive Greetings from HRER

We are thankful.

To our authors, readers, reviewers, guest editors, human rights activists, researchers, and educators across the word, we value you!

Your support during this year of growth and development for HRER has inspired us.
⭐️We’re excited to announce this article exploring how young children, their parents, carers & teachers understand their rights
⭐️A ground-breaking article on #HumanRightsEducation in early childhood by @carmelward.bsky.social
⭐️Deserves to be widely read
⭐️ #OpenAccess
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Recontextualising young children’s human rights education in Rwanda
Children’s human rights education in early childhood should be constructed in contextualised ways that respect traditional values, yet dominant Western-centred research often overlooks cultural syn...
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⭐️NEW article from Shuang Huang @jldevincenzo.bsky.social & Thomas Chandler @columbiauniversity.bsky.social on ⭐️positioning Gen AI in #HumanRightsEducation, addressing disaster risk reduction & youth #empowerment
⭐️AVAILABLE FREE ACCESS FOR A LIMITED PERIOD ONLY
Check it out!
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Positioning generative AI within human rights education: a scalable framework for inclusive disaster risk reduction and youth empowerment
As global challenges like climate change and social inequities intensify, inclusive, rights-based education is increasingly urgent. Human rights education (HRE) empowers youth to understand and adv...
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Exploring how stories with female role models might contribute education for girls’ rights
Kate Mackenzie explores possible tensions between human rights & global citizenship values
@pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social
@drcarolineferguson.bsky.social
@tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Real-life and fictional role models as a resource for rights education for and about girls
Mae Jemison, Little People Big Dreams by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara and Janna Morton, tells the story of the first African American woman astronaut. In the novel Johnny Mad Dog by Emmanuel Dongala...
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✔️NEW Call for Papers from HRER

✔️Intercultural history, human rights and citizenship education for inclusion in diverse societies

✔️Scholars are encouraged to submit abstracts by 6 January 2026

✔️Invited papers due by 31 May 2026
For further details visit
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Human Rights Education Review
Special Issue 2027: Intercultural history, human rights, and citizenship education for inclusion in diverse societies Call for Papers: deadline for abstract submission – 6 January 2026&n…
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Delighted to be publishing this, HRER’s first article focusing on #SriLanka
Hoping to publish many more!
@hrer.bsky.social has an open call for papers
@kalpanid.bsky.social @rkshanks.bsky.social @suzanneegan.bsky.social @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social
⭐️NEW #OpenAccess article by Lasni Buddhihashika Jayasooriya

⭐️Examines Sri Lankan #civics curriculum

⭐️ #HRE for living together #postconflict

#peace #SriLanka
#GlobalCitizenshipEd

⭐️in Special Issue on #gce with editors @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social & Jia Ying Neoh

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Human Rights Education and Global Citizenship: an analysis of Sri Lankan Civic Education curricula
Human Rights Education (HRE) is crucial for Sri Lanka, having endured a 26-year-long civil war and various violent experiences arising from ethnic, religious and political tensions. In the context ...
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How do we teach difficult history & avoid ethnonationalism when facing the past?
Boeun Cha #Yonsei University Seoul & Jing Williams University of South Dakota discuss case of #ComfortWomen #HistoryEd
#GCE & #HRE special issue @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social & Jia Ying Neoh
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Empowering global citizens beyond nationalism: teaching the ‘comfort women’ history through human rights education in South Korea
This qualitative case study examines how human rights education (HRE) is integrated into teaching the history of Japanese military ‘comfort women’ in South Korea to empower students as global citiz...
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✅Just a few days left to submit your abstract to #IAHRE2026
✅Deadline is 17 November
✅A friendly conference where all are welcome
Call for Conference Abstracts! #humanrightsed #humanrights #cfp
Theme: Re-imagining Human Rights Education in a Turbulent World 26-27 May Münster Germany global-iahre.org/research/
3rd International IAHRE Conference 26-27 May 2026 – Münster, Germany
Re-imagining Human Rights Education in a Turbulent World Abstract Deadline Extended until 17 November 2025 Venue: Zfsl An den Speichern 5, 48157 Münster, Germany Conference Announcement and Call fo…
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New Special Issue published! @hrer.bsky.social Global citizenship education and human rights. What are the connections? Outstanding articles that expand concepts of GCE & HRE. Read our editorial here ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Interrogating the intersections of global citizenship and human rights education
Published in Human Rights Education Review (Vol. 8, No. 3, 2025)
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HRER is delighted to announce Special Issue 8(3) Global Citizenship Education & Human Rights
12 articles on #GCE & #HRE from
#Azerbaijan #Australia #China #SouthKorea #SriLanka #Pakistan #UK #USA
🎉Congratulations Guest Editors @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social & Jia Ying Neoh doi.org/10.1080/2535...
Interrogating the intersections of global citizenship and human rights education
Published in Human Rights Education Review (Vol. 8, No. 3, 2025)
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⭐️IAHRE 2026 has just extended the deadline for abstract submissions for the annual conference in May 2026 until 17 November 2025.
⭐️It will take place in the charming town of Muenster, Germany 26-27 May
⭐️We look forward to welcoming you
⭐️Check out the full details here global-iahre.org/research/
3rd International IAHRE Conference 26-27 May 2026 – Münster, Germany
Re-imagining Human Rights Education in a Turbulent World Abstract Deadline Extended until 17 November 2025 Venue: Zfsl An den Speichern 5, 48157 Münster, Germany Conference Announcement and Call fo…
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🎉Today marks 75th anniversary of European Convention on Human Rights.
🎉Let’s strengthen human rights education- something we all need to protect us
🎉join International Association for Human Rights Education to network & support HRE research
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International Association for Human Rights Education
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🎉Great to this important piece -how #HumanRights of Indigenous Peoples & IDPs are incorporated in #GlobalCitizenshipEd
🎉now available #OpenAccess
🎉Congratulations @yuliasnesterova.bsky.social & others @uofglasgow.bsky.social
🎉 @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social Jia Ying Neoh

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✅Check out HRER news for details of the Call for Papers for #IAHRE2026 conference ‘Re-imagining Human Rights Education in a Turbulent World’
✅26-27 May 2025 Muenster, Germany
✅Abstracts due 3 Nov 2025

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Learn about Human Rights Education Review aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.
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It is briefings day!

We are releasing newly updated versions of our briefings, plus three new ones!

The series covers topics from the constitutional principles that underpin democracy to the role of citizens' assemblies.

Use this mega-thread to browse them.

And find out more 👇
Constitution Unit publishes new briefings on constitutional principles and the health of democracy
The Constitution Unit has today published new and updated briefings as part of its Constitutional Principles and the Health of Democracy project.
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Spotted Mythology Land on the shelves of Waterstones and Heffers in Cambridge this morning 😍

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Deeply saddened to learn of the death of Conor Gearty
His contribution as a human rights scholar has been immense
His readiness to speak up for justice is one more human rights educators need to emulate

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‘Inspirational’ human rights lawyer Conor Gearty dies aged 67
President Michael D Higgins leads tributes for Longford-born law professor and author
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⭐️Really appreciate @drtoddlandman.bsky.social review of our edited book ‘Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education’ doi.org/10.1080/1891...

⭐️ @beategold.bsky.social & I are grateful for the support of a wonderful team of authors from #Denmark #Finland #Iceland #Norway #Sweden #Canada #US #UK
Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education: Research and Practice for Social Justice
Published in Nordic Journal of Human Rights (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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