The first issue of HREA's Research in Human Rights Education Papers Series has appeared. The paper is a comparative study on models of human rights training. "Human Rights Training for Adults: What Twenty-six Evaluation Studies Say About Design, Implementation and Follow-Up" examines trainings for human rights defenders, police officers, government officials and the general public. Among its main recommendations are:

1) programmes need to more consistently deliver the interactive, experiential and transformative adult education methodologies that they all agree are essential to effective human rights training;
2) programmes need to emphasise comprehensive mechanisms to follow-up with participants after the formal training programme is complete; and
3) programmes should explore how they might carry out reliable and comprehensive research and documentation of their work as the human rights education field as a whole lacks solid longitudinal evaluation data on the long-term impact of human rights trainings on participants.