「kaohsiung, taiwan : a human rights city - an overview of human rights education for teenagers in...

PresenterPresenter：：Su LiSu Li--ChiungChiungDeputy SecretaryDeputy Secretary--General, Kaohsiung City Government General, Kaohsiung City Government

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▫ Building Foundation：Kaohsiung’s Strategy to Build a Human

Rights City.▫ Deepening Awareness：Human Rights Education for Teenagers.▫ Listening to Our Citizens ： Put Civil Rights into Practice－1999

Citizen Hotline.

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▫ Established on 9th January, 2009. ▫ 17 Committee members. ▫ Mayor as the Chairperson and Deputy Mayor as the

Deputy Chairperson.▫ Help policy-making

and increase public Awareness.

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▫ Established in 2009.▫ Located in subway station “Formosa Boulevard Station”▫ A venue for campaigns for human rights.

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Identify 27 sites where human rights incidents once occurred to bring attention to four human rights issues

Focused Issue of the Site Number of Sites in the City Example

Persecution of Human Rights 15 228 Memorial Park

Labor Rights 3 Female Labors Memorial Park

Environmental Protection 4 Siaolin Monument

Human Rights Archives 5 Kaohsiung Museum of History

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• Female Labors Memorial Park：

• to commemorate 25 female labors killed in a ferry wreck.

• Siaolin Monument ：

to commemorate Siaolin villagers killed by Typhoon Morakot.

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Promoting Human Rights Education

Human Rights Works on Campus Human Rights Consultative Team

•Designate 3 schools as resource centers.

•Coordinate educational resources, train seed teachers, and set up website.

•Advice teachers on human rights education.

•Design curriculum and teaching materials .

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Resource Center

•Senior High School:Siaogang Senior High School

•Junior High School:Ling-Ya Junior High School

•Primary School Sin-Yi Primary School

What have been done?

• Inspect human rights practices on campus

• Field trips to human rights historical sites

• Seminars for seed teachers

• A variety of competitions for students

• Launch campaigns on Human Rights Day

• Review legal achievement on human rights

• Modify regulations on campus

• Publish publications and set up website

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• Training for seed teachers▫ Held seminars for more than 1000 teachers from 2010 to 2013, around 200 teachers were trained as seed Teachers.

• Supports for teachers ▫ Consulting Services: served 500 teachers from 2011 to 2013▫ Human Rights Workshops : anti-bullying teaching demonstration

and field trip▫ Design a Human Rights Map▫ Campaigns for Human Rights: 26 activities from 2011 to 2013

Promote anti-bullying by dramas

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• Strategic Alliance • Coordinate teachers from Kaohsiung, Pingtung, Tainan,

Taitung, and Penghu.

Consultants from Human Rights Consultative Team responded to teachers’ inquiries and help promote human rights awareness

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• Comics competition• Field trips to human rights historical sites: 700 students

participated each year.• Anti-discrimination, anti-bullying, anti-doping campaigns:

404 events held for primary schools; 142 for junior highschools; 99 for senior high schools.

Field trip to a human rights site－Ciaotou Sugar Refinery

Promote human rights awareness through dramas

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• Evaluate human rights practices on campus: evaluate

safety measures, complaint filing system, and treatment

to students

• Review regulations on campus: All regulations need to

abide by International Covenant on Civil and Political

Rights (ICCPR) and International Covenant on

Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)

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• Set up website: access to Human Rights Declaration,

teaching tutorials, films, and recommended websites

• Publications: DVD,

handbooks, folders

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• First toll-free 24-hours citizen hotline service in Taiwan• Allow citizens to file compliant or contribute feedback anytime。• 29 employees, more than 31% are

with physical challenges (6 people with physical disabilities, 2 people lose functions of primary organs, 1 person with facial disfigurement, 5 people with visual impairment, and 1 person who is multi-disabled)

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