Human rights and history : a challenge for education / edited by Rainer Huhle ; [translation and revision, Patrizia Szobar].

Papers from a 2008 conference held in Nuremberg, Germany.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Martin Salm -- Introduction : the complex relationship of historical learning and human rights / Rainer Huhle -- A duty to humanity : Stéphane Hessel : interview with Rainer Huhle -- Human rights and their history from a European perspective / Morten Kjaerum -- The Universal Declaration and the conscience of humanity / Johannes Morsink -- "Jewish rights are human rights" : Jewish contributions and controversies in the international establishment of human rights after 1945 / Rainer Huhle -- From the Holocaust to the Genocide Convention : a human rights learning process / William Schabas -- Coming to terms with "crimes against humanity" : Nuremberg and beyond / Rainer Huhle -- The prohibition on discrimination : a founding principle of human rights / Heiner Bielefeldt -- Freedom of expression as a human right : the role of hate speech in the public sphere / Otto Böhm -- Freedom of expression as a cornerstone human right / Agnès Callamard -- The right to asylum in West Germany : refugee policies in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1975 / Patrice G. Poutrus -- From abolition to eradication : slavery in the twenty-first century / Aidan McQuade -- Compensation for Nazi slave labor : the context of human rights / Günter Saathoff -- "The law is our only language" : Soviet dissidents and human rights / Uta Gerlant -- The Helsinki Final Act and the civil and human rights movement in the Soviet Union / Ernst Wawra -- Human rights education between norms and practice : reflections on the Colombian and Latin American experience / Flor Alba Romero -- The role of history in education against discrimination / Monique Eckmann -- The role of historical and political education in contemporary human rights education / Albert Scherr -- Memory work and human rights education in an immigrant society / Hasko Zimmer -- History as resource : human rights education as historical and political education / Karl-Peter Fritzsche.