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Importance Of Human Rights Education

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HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION
B. Sailakshmi
(Assistant Professor of Economics,CSSR & SRRM Degree and P.G. College, Kamalapuram-516289)

ABSTRACT Human rights education is an integral part of the right to education and is increasingly gaining recognition as a human right in itself. Knowledge of rights and freedoms is considered a fundamental tool to guarantee respect for the rights of all. UNESCO’s work in human rights education is guided by the World Programme for Human Rights Education. Education should encompass values such as peace, non-discrimination, equality, justice, non-violence, tolerance and respect for human dignity. Quality education based on a human rights approach means that rights are implemented throughout …show more content…

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• To develop attitudes and behaviours that will lead to respect for the rights of others.
• To ensure genuine gender equality and equal opportunities for women and men in all spheres.
• To promote respect, understanding and appreciation of diversity, particularly towards different national, ethnic, religious, linguistic and other minorities and communities.
• To empower people towards more active citizenship.
• To promote democracy, development, social justice, communal harmony, solidarity and friendship among people and nations.
• To further the activities of international institutions aimed at the creation of a culture of peace, based upon universal values of human rights, international understanding, tolerance and nonviolence. Human rights education for children at the Childhood stage is the ideal time to begin lifelong learning about and for human rights. And the far reaching objectives of general human rights education can be interpreted to fi t the world of the young child in more concrete terms of personal experience in the community, in the family and in the personal relationships the child encounters everyday with adults and other

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