The Human Rights Resource Centre is an integral part of the Judicial and Human Rights Department of AU Watch. It works in partnership with AU Watch Institute For AU Studies and Legacy Universityin The Gambia to:

• Create, store and distribute Human Rights Education (HRE) resources via electronic and print media. We also provide unique images and stories about human rights across the Africa;

• Design human rights curriculums and syllabuses for primary and secondary schools;

• Train activists, professionals, and students as human rights educators;

• Build advocacy networks to encourage effective practices in human rights education;

• We provide spokespeople for television, radio and press concerning the range of training and pedagogical work covered by the AU. Whether it’s social and economic policy analysis, human rights, conflict and peace, development, security, education governance and more we have the experts who can articulate the issues clearly;

• Exhibitions and awards are also distinctive elements of our work. We shall promote (young) human rights activists, and annually award our prestigious Young Persons Inspirational Prize. Our scholarship programs help young human rights journalists by offering them projects specifically geared to their needs. We award prize for excellent in local human rights journalism.

• We also engage with a broad-range of local, national and international organizations, think tanks, by organizing events and hosting face-to-face briefings, interviews and lectures. Our conferences and eventsattract people who ‘have something to say’. In countries where there is an AU organ, we offer more thousands of events per year which attract hundreds of thousands of participants;

• We Influence people and Institutions.AU Watch believes that education is the key to the future of Africa. Too many of Africa’s youths cannot read and write. The Centre works to achieve universal reading, writing and IT proficiency for all our youths. The Centre is collaborating with school of AU Studies to rum the “No Child Left Behind” program to get Africa’s youth into the 21^st We offer every student hands-on computer science and math classes that make them job-ready on day one This includes helping them to engage solidly with the Fourth Industrial Revolution that is now with us.

Our publications and advocacy are another plank in the armory of AU Watch to ensure accountability of our state’s manager. We produce:

• Documentaries
• Short films
• News briefs
• On-line commentaries
• On-line articles on topical issues
• On-line news letter
• Collaborative work / publications with organizations like:

   -The Court
   -The Commission
   -Other sub-regional bodies / recs
   -AUC
   -UN etc
   -ICC
   -Ecowas

• Print and Publications Unit. Access to relevant, accurate information is a vital complement to our work especially our litigation and training work. We work with AU Watch’s Print Unit to produce and disseminate a range ofpublications, keeping lawyers, judges and NGOs abreast of developments in ‘AU law’ which affect their work. These are both hard copy and online publications.

• Develop and roll out a regional program for Human Rights Educationacross Africa:

-Phase 1 (2020-2022): Human Rights Education in the Primary and Secondary School Systems;

-Phase 2 (2023-2025): Human Rights Education in Higher Education, Training for Civil Servants, Law Enforcement, Military and Correction Officers.