Shulamith Koenig is the Executive Director of the People's Movement for Human Rights Education, which she founded in 1988 with the goal of creating a global human rights culture. This non-profit organization now has offices in each of the five geographic regions, and is working with educators, social justice groups, human rights experts, and the media to make education in human rights and democracy an on-going activity in all areas of learning and at all levels of society. Through her work, Ms. Koenig has been a strong advocate of global action for societal change through human rights education. Her vision has been to create a worldwide corps of human rights educators who will serve as role models and catalysts for human rights learning in their communities. To this end, Ms. Koenig has worked tirelessly to support the United Nations Decade of Human Rights Education, organizing consultations and workshops with educators, human rights advocates and community leaders in more than 60 countries. Most recently Ms. Koenig has initiated the 'Human Rights Cities' project, which is supported by the United Nations Development Programme as a three-year Global Program to be implemented in 30 cities and train 500 young community leaders in strengthening human rights, civil society and democracy. Its goal is to develop a new vocation of 'human rights educators for social and economic transformation', thereby ensuring a new generation of political leadership that will protect and promote the goal of human rights for all peoples."