Waving with Treaties? The Politics of Implementing Human Rights Education in the Netherlands

Given the fact that many countries did not take any formal steps to implement the policies in the field of human rights education agreed upon worldwide in the 1990s, this article seeks to give an example of such a country, and to explain its reluctance. Taking an actor-oriented approach to human rights implementation, and partly building on personal experience, it seeks to explain why formal reforms did not take place by looking into the wide...