ABOUT US

There are four areas of human rights action necessary for building a rights based community where all are valued, included and belong. These action areas are to educate, facilitate, document, and advocate on human rights. These four areas intersect and are interdependent, and thus, JHC's action for change flows through these action areas.

1. To know one's human rights is fundamental in order to be able to claim rights and be able to stand up for what one needs in community. Thus educating on human rights for children, youth and adults is at the core of JHC's work. JHC provides education to policy makers, decision makers, organizations, businesses, children, youth and the larger community on human rights. We educate on the roles and responsibilities of all people living together in community, or at an organizational level, to cultivate a culture of peace, inclusion, respect, and reciprocity. JHC educates on human rights as values and tools.

2. To participate in community and the decisions that affect us requires the act of facilitating. JHC works to build community solutions through facilitation of dialogue and collective action across difference and diversity. Through these spaces of facilitation, we model good relations and build community.

3. To monitor and inform policy and decision making, documenting human rights issues is necessary. JHC conducts community based research on human rights issues, informing and bringing together the collective wisdom in community for sustainable solutions. The data and information collected through JHC facilitation and advocacy also informs education and capacity building efforts.

4. To access needs in community or to seek remedy when injustice exists requires the act of advocating. JHC connects people to access supports for immediate needs and further supports community in self advocacy and navigation of human rights mechanisms to remedy discrimination or rights violations.

The John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights integrates our work across these four pillars of action to create an eco-system advancing a culture of peace and human rights. We work to centre children; working to make generational shifts in advancing the values of human rights. By creating spaces across diversity and where community engages in discourse on human rights, we are not only modeling human rights as a way of being, we are also creating bridges in community that break down stereotypes, prejudice and misunderstandings.