Human rights education

Definition, Need and Objectives

1. HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION -> Definition, Need & Objective -M.CHANDRAKUMARI

2. INTRODUCTION Human rights can only be achieved through an informed and continued demand by people for their protection. Human right education promotes values, beliefs and attitudes that encourage all individuals to uphold their own rights and those of others. It develops an understanding of everyone’s common responsibility to make human rights a reality in each community.

3. DEFINITION Human rights education is defined as training dissemination of information, efforts aimed at building a universal culture of human rights by imparting knowledge and skills moulding attitudes. - P lan of action for the United Nations Decade for Human R ights E ducation(1995-2004)

4. Human rights education refers to that which helps people placed at different levels of economic progress and development and belonging to different social and religious group to learn and adhere throughout life. - U.N.O’s General Assembly Human rights education means , “ a lifelong process by which people at all levels of development and in all strata of society learn respect for dignity of others and the means and methods of ensuring that respect in all societies.” - UN decade document for human rights education (1995-2004)

5. NEED FOR HUMAN RIGHT EDUCATION Raise awareness about the human rights, protects from any sort of discrimination, unfair treatment, and provide democratic structure, values as well as individual freedom. Contributes towards the development of global and wide perspectives, insights into the idea of international society a nd community.

6. Helps to make all human beings, human rights literate. Ensures essential respect for human rights in a democratic and multicultural society where tolerance and patience are inevitable for all. Protects from infringement of rights of racial, ethnic and religious group in any country or area through inculcation of global awareness and mutual understanding among the citizens. Possible to remove the fear of war in future through eradication of human rights abuses, social injustice, human selfishness and self- orientedness .

7. OBJECTIVES OF HUMAN RIGHT EDUCATION To promote respect for human rights of all individual. To develop knowledge , skill and value of human rights. To foster understanding, tolerance, gender equality.

8. To help the people and the policy makers to evolve the ways and means to overcome the problems of each nation and that of the international community . To develop friendship among all nations and eliminates racial, ethnic, religious and linguistic differences. The design of curriculum needs to built on philosophical, psychological and sociological bases of curriculum planning and development. The school curriculum should work towards the holistic development of the individual

9. CONCLUSION Human Rights Education constitutes an essential contribution to the long-term prevention of human rights abuses and represents an important investment in the endeavour to achieve a just society in which all human rights of all persons are valued and respected.