The Anti-Bullying Centre was set up initially as an independent research body targeting the area of bullying, a course it continues to follow. The Resource side of our work, including our counselling and "victim support" aspects, evolved as a result of our research.

The centre offers three different community relations based education programmes catering to children from as young as 4 to those about to leave primary school at 11. Each of the four programmes encourages teamwork, builds friendships and deals with issues affecting children in our society today.

The Northern Ireland Anti-Bullying Forum (NIABF) has membership of over twenty regional statutory, voluntary and community organisations all acting together to end bullying of children and young people. NIABF defines bullying as the repeated use of power by one or more persons intentionally to hurt, harm or adversely affect the rights and needs of another or others.

PlayBoard is the lead agency for children and young people's play in Northern Ireland, working to improve the quality of children's lives by increasing their opportunity to play.

Toolkit for Intercultural Dialogue in Schools: includes a 'virtual twinning' project where schools are invited to undertake projects on five cities which have an historic and/or contemporary links with Ireland. These cities include Johannesburg, Krakow, Chicago, Liverpool and Beijing. The projects are designed to give students some insights into migration (old and new); information on Irish connections with each of the cities, including famous Irish men and women; ethnic and cultural diversity and it offers some project information focussing on racism.

Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.

The MDG Monitor is designed as a one-stop-shop for information on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), globally and at the country level. It is intended as a tool for policymakers, development practitioners, journalists, students and others interested in learning about the Goals and tracking progress toward them. The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) build on agreements made at United Nations conferences in the 1990s and represent commitments by all countries to reduce poverty and hunger, and to tackle ill-health, gender inequality, lack of education, lack of access to clean water and environmental degradation.

This site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free. More than 200 talks from our archive are now available, with more added each week.

The website of the newly established centre in St. Patrick's College of Education, Drumcondra, Dublin

Global links is ActionAid's interactive global citizenship site for schools It explores life around the world and encourages users to ask questions, share ideas, vote on issues and take action. It is for seven to 14 year-olds, and their teachers to use in geography, citizenship & PSHE lessons.

The Electronic Resource Centre for Human Rights Education is an on-line repository of human rights education and training materials, on-line forums, databases and links to other organisations and resources. The materials are provided free of charge.

What is Education for Global Citizenship? Who is it for? Why is it essential education? And how does it help teachers of all ages and subjects develop their practice and meet national educational requirements? We have plenty of material here to help you develop both your thinking and your practice, no matter what age group or subject you teach.

Educational disadvantage blights the lives of thousands of Irish children. Almost one-in-three children living in disadvantaged areas have basic literacy problems. The Right to Read Campaign wants to see major improvements in three key areas to improve the conditions in which children learn to read. These areas are: Homework Clubs, Houses and Libraries

The 'Through Other Eyes' project is a sister project of Open Spaces for Dialogue and Enquiry (OSDE). The aim of this project is the development of a free online programme of study for teachers in order to build a set of tools for an ethical engagement with indigenous knowledges that will enhance equity in North-South dialogue and set a practical and theoretically sound framework for the introduction of global perspectives in the classroom. This site is particularly useful for development educators, school teachers, ITE trainers and teacher advisors.

A human rights education initiative for Transition Year. The initiative brings artists and young people together in the production of creative resources exploring human rights (plays, poetry, film, photography), and brings these resources to a wider audience together with background material on human rights. Voice Our Concern also runs creative human rights workshops for teachers, provides a textbook with plays and workshops for teachers and drama groups, facilitates play performances, film screenings, and more.

The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is a worldwide Movement providing non-formal education where girls and young women develop leadership and life skills through self-development, challenge and adventure. Girl Guides and Girl Scouts learn by doing.

The ArtBreak programme uses art to explore a wide range of themes and topics.

The Human Rights Search Engine Search over 4500 human rights websites

This is a website about race, racism and life - as seen through the eyes of the Britkids.

This organisation is a dedicated to increasing the awareness of, and the problems associated with, bullying and to preventing, resolving and eliminating bullying in society.

KidsHealth has separate areas for kids, teens, and parents - each with its own design, age-appropriate content, and tone. There are literally thousands of in-depth features, articles, animations, games, and resources - all original and all developed by experts in the health of children and teens.

The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) was established in 1993 to promote social justice through human rights. In a world where poverty and inequality deprive entire communities of dignity and even life itself, CESR promotes the universal right of every human being to housing, education, health and a healthy environment, food, work, and an adequate standard of living.

The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) is an independent, non-governmental, not-for-profit human rights organisation. COHRE is registered in the Netherlands, and coordinates its global activities from its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. COHRE is the leading international human rights organisation campaigning for the protection of housing rights and the prevention of forced evictions.

The substantive work of ESCR-Net is carried out through decentralized structures that are comprised of and coordinated by Members based in different countries. These structures can take the form of a Working Group, Initiative or Discussion Group, each providing a different way for organizations to work together on an issue of shared concern and enable joint action. ESCR-Net seeks to strengthen economic, social and cultural rights by working with organizations and activists worldwide.

The International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) is an international NGO serving human rights defenders. Our vision is the development, strengthening, effective use and implementation of international and regional standards and mechanisms for the protection and promotion of human rights.

The Universal Human Rights Index provides instant access for all countries to human rights information from the United Nations system.

The gateway to educational partnerships between schools and colleges across the world

HURIDOCS is a global capacity-building network of organisations that use documentation techniques, monitoring methods, information management systems and technologies in the defence of human rights and the prevention of abuses.

The Control Arms campaign asked governments to toughen up controls on the arms trade. Our Million Faces petition collected photos and self-portraits from around the world to reach our goal of one million faces by June 2006. These faces were used to send a powerful, global message of support to the world's governments for an International Arms Trade Treaty.

You can still take part in Friendship Day 2008! While most schools/colleges hold a Friendship Day during February, you can hold Friendship Day in your school, college or youth group/organization on any date you like. After all, it’s not the date, but the taking part that will make a difference.

Imagine Education Pack - lots of ideas for creative projects on human rights for people of all ages!

The role of the NCCA is to lead developments in curriculum and assessment and to support the implementation of changes resulting from this work. The NCCA works in a spirit of consensus and partnership. It seeks to promote an innovative and creative environment for all learners in schools and other educational settings.

Toledo Guiding Principles on Teaching about Religions and Beliefs in Public Schools