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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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🎉111,363 downloads in 2025, our first year with @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)

🎉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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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...

🎉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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From all of us at Human Rights Education Review

Together, we will continue to move forward with purpose, courage and care, sharing and publishing your scholarship.

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.

Your commitment and dedication to our mission to advance human rights and human rights education and foster diverse voices through global research exchange that strengthens and enhances rights.

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

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Check out this review of Karen Glistrup’s book by @carmelward.bsky.social and reflect on its importance for all concerned with #ChildRights

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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...

⭐️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
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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...

⭐️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
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Globalisation, Human Rights and Education Published in Human Rights Education Review (Vol. 8, No. 3, 2025)

NEW in our Special Issue edited by @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social & Jia Ying Neoh, Alexander Krouglov’s review of #Globalisation #HumanRights & #Education
A wide-ranging edited collection by Yvonne Vissing & Joseph Zajda

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Children’s rights in professional practices with children and youth Published in Human Rights Education Review (Vol. 8, No. 3, 2025)

NEW book review by @matkinson956.bsky.social examining 2034 publication by TM Collins: ‘Children’s Rights in Professional Practices with Children and Youth’
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Human rights education in Pakistani textbooks: a critical discourse analysis This study employs critical discourse analysis to examine human rights discourses in grade 5 social studies textbooks across public and private schools in Pakistan, where nation-building, Islamic v...

NEW article on how social studies textbooks in #Pakistan address #HumanRights questions
Delighted to report the 2nd of two articles in 2025 analysing textbooks in the country
In Special Issue on #gce and #hre with editors @drcarolineferguson.bsky.social & Jia Ying Neoh t
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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...

Exploring how stories with female role models might contribute education for girls’ rights
Kate Mackenzie explores possible tensions between human rights & global citizenship values
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Patriotic global citizenship? Reinterpreting insights from university EFL teachers in China This study investigates how Chinese university English as a Foreign Language teachers conceptualise global citizenship in the context of global polycrisis and China’s rising international prominenc...

NEW How do national policy agendas shape understanding of #GCE & human rights?
Studying #EFL teachers in China Enze Guo & @zczlpz1.bsky.social discuss views of justice-oriented #HigherEducation teachers
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Rethinking human rights and global citizenship education through Confucian values: insights from a Chinese high school This article explores a Confucian perspective on human rights education (HRE) and global citizenship education (GCE). In dialogue with Western liberal and communitarian traditions of human rights a...

NEW Lipei Wang discusses how a Chinese high school rethinks #HumanRights & #GCE thro’ Confuscian values
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The power of the ‘implicit’: enacting global citizenship education and human rights education in chinese higher education classrooms This article draws on ethnographic descriptions of Global Citizenship Education (GCE) and Human Rights Education (HRE) implicit teaching and learning practices on non-compulsory topical courses at ...

In the latest edion of HRER Dr Arabia Habibi discusses the power of the implicit and how human rights and global citizenship education might play out in Chinese universities
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