Introduction
This section includes Human Rights Programs, Human Rights and Psychology Curricula, Links to Organizations, and General Bibliographies on Human Rights Education for Psychologists
Human Rights Education Programs (General)
- Columbia University – Institute for the Study of Human Rights
- Raoul Wallenburg Institute, Human Rights Education
Teaching and Learning Resources
General Resources for Educators
- Educator’s “Kit” from Human Rights https://www.humanrights.com/educators/educators-kit.html
Syllabi
Psychology Courses on Human Rights
Other Courses on Human Rights
Books, Papers
Human Rights Education for Psychologists
Edited by Polli Hagenaars, Marlena Plavšíć, Nora Sveass, Ulrich Wagner and Tony Wainwright; With a foreword by Saths Cooper
Psicología y Derechos Humanos (edited volume, De la Corte, Blanco & Sabucedo) — widely used as core reading across Spanish-language psychology-and-human-rights courses; full table of contents at Dialnet: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/libro?codigo=3880
Human Rights Education in a Psychology Curriculum
Andrea de Palma
Human rights education: what works?
Danish Institute for Human Rights, 8 February 2021
Human rights education is increasingly acknowledged as an essential part of building a human rights culture. But does it work? This brief reviews existing literature on human rights education for children, presenting an overview of findings on the outcomes of human rights education.
The SDG 4.7 / Human Rights Education Monitoring Tool: for monitoring the implementation of the human rights education element of global SDG target 4.7 and related human rights provisions. SDG 4.7 : Sustainable development and global citizenship.
Primary Readings
- *Human Rights Education for Psychologists
- A Human Rights View of the Past
- Decolonial Human Rights Education: Changing the Terms and Content of Conversations on Human Rights
- Decolonizing University Teaching and Learning: An Entry Model for Grappling with Complexities
- Emancipatory Human Rights and the University
- Epistemic Injustice in Academic Global Health
- European Convention on Human Rights in practice – Teaching Resources 2026 Edition
- Evolution of UN Policies for Peace Education with a Focus on Human Rights
- Human Rights Defenders Under Siege
- Intercultural Training Module That Is More About “Us” Than About “Them” and the Underlying Rationale
- Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education: Research and Practice for Social Justice
- Pushing the Boundaries of Human Rights Education: Concepts, Challenges and Contexts
- Rethinking Emotional Engagement in Human Rights Education through Affective Justice
- Rethinking the Course Syllabus: Considerations for Promoting Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
- Transformative-Emancipatory Pedagogy (TEP) to Reimagine Education
North America
- Webster University — Psychology and Human Rights, Linda Woolf (Fall 2024 syllabus): http://faculty.webster.edu/woolflm/PsychHRSyllabusF2024.html
- San Jose State University — Introduction to Human Rights and Social Justice, Justice Studies (cross-relevant): https://www.sjsu.edu/justicestudies/docs/syllabi/2022/fall/JS25-80%20Syllabus%20Fall%202022%20Kinney.pdf
- Columbia University / Barnard — Human Rights Studies program, with psychology faculty (Larry Heuer) among contributing instructors: https://catalog.barnard.edu/barnard-college/courses-instruction/human-rights-studies/
- APA Division 48 (Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence / Peace Psychology) — maintains an actual open Peace Course syllabi repository, explicitly linking peace psychology to human rights: http://peacepsychology.org/peace-course-syllabi and a broader teaching hub at https://peacepsychology.org/teaching-peace. Their “Resources for University Teaching” page is also worth checking directly: https://peacepsychology.org/ (navigate to Peace Courses).
Latin America
- Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina) — Psicología y Derechos Humanos, an elective course in the psychology licensure program: https://unc.fandom.com/wiki/Psicolog%C3%ADa_y_Derechos_Humanos(student materials/summaries also circulate on Studocu: https://www.studocu.com/es-ar/course/universidad-nacional-de-cordoba/psicologia-y-derechos-humanos/2978898)
- Universidad de la República (Uruguay) — Articulación de Saberes II: Psicología, Género y Derechos Humanos, Institute of Health Psychology: https://sifp.psico.edu.uy/guias/398/view (full course guide PDF: https://www.psico.edu.uy/sites/default/files/2.5.mas_ii_genero_y_ddhh_articulacion_saberes_regl.pdf)
- Icaria Editorial’s Psicología y Derechos Humanos (edited volume, De la Corte, Blanco & Sabucedo) — widely used as core reading across Spanish-language psychology-and-human-rights courses; full table of contents at Dialnet: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/libro?codigo=3880
Africa
- University of Pretoria — Centre for Human Rights — not psychology-specific, but Africa’s leading human rights teaching hub, including the pan-African LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (with Makerere, University of Ghana, and others): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Human_Rights
- Chapter worth flagging for a South African angle: “Decolonization and Liberation Psychology: The Case of Psychology in South Africa” (Cheryl de la Rey et al.) in the Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Human Rights — good citation if you want an African psychology-and-human-rights teaching case study rather than a live course link.
Cross-regional / comparative teaching databases
- University of Connecticut — Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, “Teaching Human Rights” syllabus database (successor to UC Berkeley’s original Human Rights Syllabi for the College Classroom project) — not psychology-specific, but a large, searchable, international syllabus bank you can filter: https://teachingdatabase.humanrights.uconn.edu/browse-all-syllabi/
- humanrightspsychology.org’s own “Peace Education for Human Rights” post describing their open-access repository project — directly relevant since it’s from the same GNPHR network as the page you’re updating, and explicitly frames peace psychology as a human rights teaching pathway: https://humanrightspsychology.org/peace-education-for-human-rights-building-an-open-access-repository/