Human Rights Education
Human rights education is a deliberate, participatory practice aimed at empowering individuals, groups and communities through fostering knowledge, skills and attitudes consistent with internationally recognized human rights principles.
As a medium to long-term process, human rights education seeks to develop and integrate people's cognitive, affective and attitudinal dimensions, including critical thinking, in relation to human rights. Its goal is to build a culture of respect for and action in the defence and promotion of human rights for all.
Amnesty International’s newly endorsed International strategy for human rights education embraces this definition and sets the framework for HRE until 2010 and aims to:
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Use education to build a global culture of human rights and prevent human rights abuses. |
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Enable a broad spectrum of individuals, groups and communities to understand and express their personal concerns in human rights terms. |
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Inspire people to integrate human rights principles into both their individual lives and their social institutions. |
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Challenge and enable people to act to demand, support and defend human rights and use them as a tool for social change. |
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Build the competence of Amnesty International to conduct effective human rights education. |
HRE in India
The human rights movement within India is vibrant, strong and diverse and is playing an active role in defining civil society in the country. At the same time given the scale of human rights concerns as well the size of the country there is a clear role for AI India in terms of expanding the base for change within the country through Human Rights Education (HRE) programme. AI India seeks to become a space which ordinary people from different walks of life and economic, social and political backgrounds can share to work together for the promotion and protection of human rights.
Contact:
Amnesty International India
C 1/22, First Floor
Safdarjung Development Area
HauzKhas, New Delhi 110016
Tel: 011.41642501, 26854763
Fax: 011.26510202
Or email us at hre@amnesty.org.in
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