Human Rights in Your Community - online guide

BIHR is delighted to launch the ‘human rights in your community’ online guide, packed full of useful information for community groups and organisations to understand and use human rights in their daily work. The guide explains how human rights work and provides information on some specific human rights and how they relate to everyday situations. Case studies bring the information to life, providing solid examples of how to use human rights to bring about change. The guide is part of our three-year grassroots project, ‘human rights in the community’, funded by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). It includes some inspiring examples from the project’s own pilot organisations, which are putting human rights into action in interesting and innovative ways. Capacity Global, which promotes clean and healthy environments, has used their newly found knowledge on human rights to produce a human rights ‘photo-map’ of the environmental issues in their community, focusing on social housing and green space. The guide also includes useful tips and resources to get you going. Please tell us how you get on!