MOE and British Council discuss implementation of human rights and climate change curriculum

Baghdad - INA

The Ministry of Education and the British Council discussed, today, Wednesday, the implementation of the human rights and climate change curriculum.

The ministry said in a statement - received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "In order to enhance the concepts of the human rights and climate change curriculum, and the role of central and sub-committees in implementation at the level of Iraq, the Ministry of Education discussed the axes of building the capacities of rapporteurs of human rights and climate change committees in a workshop held in Erbil within the School Linking Program in cooperation with the British Council, in the presence of the Director of the British Council Ben Luthen and the Director of the Human Rights Department Abdul Rahman Al-Tamimi."

The statement added, "The workshop, which included 38 supervisors and directors of human rights subcommittees in the General Directorates of Education in Baghdad and all governorates, aimed to enhance understanding of the human rights and climate change curriculum and to learn about its details more comprehensively after successfully training more than 4,000 supervisors in a few months last year, in addition to studying how to develop work plans for the two academic years (2024_2025) and (2025_2026) and manage work to ensure effective implementation in schools, with a focus on training teachers and instructors in accordance with the agreement concluded with the Supreme Ministerial Committee to ensure the inclusion of human rights in school curricula."