We are a network of organisations building the Human Rights Guide, an award-winning European human rights and civic education and cooperation platform

The Human Rights Guide explains how human rights work in everyday situations. It helps citizens, professionals, and educators and learners in understanding human rights, how to apply them, and where to complain, apply, or turn for help when rights may have been violated. The Human Rights Guide also offers additional resources and tools, such as knowledge assessment, infographics, and case summaries.

The Human Rights Guide provides country-specific, multilingual, and user-centred content based on national, European and international law, case-law, and practice. It takes a thematic and practical approach to introducing and explaining human rights, relevant to everyday personal and professional situations.

At present, the Human Rights Guide is available in 11 European countries and is used all over the world:

• Latvia
• Estonia
• Lithuania
• Bulgaria
• Slovenia
• Slovakia
• France
• Croatia
• Ukraine
• Moldova
• Georgia
• Armenia (2025)

The Human Rights Guide Network was founded on the idea that everyone has the right to know their rights.

Our vision is for the Human Rights Guide to become the go-to guide on human rights for citizens and professionals across Europe, enhancing competencies in and strengthening ownership of human rights in our societies, supporting civic participation, and fostering good governance in the public sector and in business through human rights education.

Our mission is to develop, promote, and expand the accessibility of the Human Rights Guide in Europe and beyond through collaboration among human rights and civic organisations and educational and public institutions. We are committed to ensuring the Human Rights Guide becomes a trusted and comprehensive resource that provides equal access to human rights education.

Our key activities are collaborative content creation, designing user-centred tools, developing targeted dissemination and strategic valorisation efforts, advocating human rights education, identifying future possibilities for the Human Rights Guide, and strengthening our network.

Through the Human Rights Guide, we aim to serve three target audiences:

Citizens & Inhabitants
Who directly or indirectly encounter human rights as rights holders in everyday personal situations.

Professionals
Who directly or indirectly work with human rights in professional situations. Those are professionals in the public sector who work with human rights as rights guarantors on behalf of the state and in public governance, professionals who work with human rights in business and in corporate governance, as well as other professionals who regularly apply human rights in their professional activities such as social workers, journalists and other professionals in media, and non-profit and non-governmental organisations that work with citizens.

Educators & Learners
Who work with human rights and civic participation in educational settings.

The Human Rights Guide Network was founded as a Baltic initiative by Riga-based non-profit organisation Baltic Human Rights Society in 2012. At present, the Human Rights Guide Network is a European network representing countries from across the continent.