Human Rights Education & Training

Report 2006 - 2011

By:

Albert XaviourIARF India

Introduction Objectives

HRE Program

Stories

Challenges

Program Outcomes & Achievements

Themes & Topics

Feedback & Conclusion

Commitment for Action

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Curriculum Outline

Assessment

Income & Expenditure Conclusion

Introduction

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 is a landmark in the history of the United Nation’s which upholds the dignity of every human beings in this earth.

Religious freedom is an inherited right of every human being and it should be respected by the governments.

Respect others freedom is the fundamental principle of making peace.

The motto of IARF is similar to this, “belief with integrity”. IARF has a mission to bring together different religions to one platform.

Introduction

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IARF & Human Rights Education

The IARF with much effort is offering a Human Rights Education program since 2005.

The facilitators special training organized by IARF at Ramakrishna Mission, Kolkata, India from 22nd to 27th August 2005.

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In 2006 the IARF project on human rights education with specific reference to right to religious freedom and belief spread to different cities towns in India.

With the full support of IARF and SACC, I organized 25 HRE programs in India since 2006. This HRE program helped thousands of lifeless young adults to live better and peaceful life with all their rights

HRE Objectives

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To promote the values and principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights based on the objectives of IARF to the

young adults

Objective

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Learning Objectives

1. Understand the importance of Human Rights and why the young adults need to know their rights, insist on them, and get others to do the same.

2. Know and understand the 30 human rights of the UDHR

3. Knowledge of major human rights issues and their status all over India, measured against the articles of the UDHR

4. Know what actions individuals and group can take to forward human rights and popularize the UDHR and objectives of IARF.

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HRE Program

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Year Number of HRE Programs

2006 5 HRE Programs

2007 3 HRE Programs

2009 4 HRE Programs

2010 5 HRE Programs

2011 8 HRE Programs

Total 25 HRE Programs

20%

12%

16%20%

32%

Number of HRE Programs

2006 2007 2009 2010 2011

HRE Programs

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States No. of HRE Programs

Tamil Nadu 13

Madhya Pradesh 3

Karnataka 1

Maharashtra 1

Andhra Pradesh 6

Goa 1

Total 25

Locations

52%

12%4%

4%

24%4%

Number of HRE Programs

Tamil Nadu Madhya PradeshKarnataka MaharashtraAndhra Pradesh Goa

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Government Institutions

16%

Hindu Institu-tions40%

Christian Insti-tutions44%

Institutions

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Total no. of Young Adult Participants - 1553

871 Males

682 Females

Participants

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Total no. of Young Adult Participants - 1553

Participants

ReligionNo. of

Participants

Hindu 978

Muslim 236

Christian 278

Buddhist 32

Jain 9

Sikh 16

Bahai 4

63%15%

18%

2%1%1% 0%

ParticipantsHindu Muslim Christian Buddhist

Jain Sikh Bahai

Hindu

Mus

lim

Christ

ian

Buddh

ist Jain

SikhBah

ai

631113 102 11 3

8

3

347165 134 21 6

8

1

Male Female

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Curriculum Outline

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Curriculum Outline

1. Invocation Prayer

2. Lighting the Lamp

3. Welcome Address

4. Briefing the HRE Program

5. Facilitations6. Chief guest Address7. Inaugural Address8. Vote of Thanks

9.30 am – Inaugural session

10.30 am – Introductory Session

11.45 am – IARF and RFYN

12.00 pm – Why HRE Training for the Young Adults?

12.30 pm – Human Rights

02.00 pm – Documentary film show

03.00 pm – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)

04.30 pm – Fundamental Rights

1. Participants Introduction – Icebreaking Session

2. Sharing Expectations

3. Proposing Goals and Sharing Goals.

1. Introduction about IARF and its Objectives

2. IARF and HRE Training

3. The Role of RFYN in Promoting Human Rights Education

1. Human Rights Violation (Slide Show)

2. Who Involves in Violation

1. What are Human Rights?

2. A Brief History of Human Rights1. Introductory Viewing of all 3 films

2. Giving Opportunity for Clarification and Immediate Responses from the Participants

1. History of UDHR 2. Thinking about Action UDHR

(Group Discussion)3. UDHR Presentation

1. Briefing Indian Constitution (Fundamental rights)

2. Fundamental Rights and UDHR the Participants

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09.30 am – Recap of Previous Day

09.45 am – Documentary Film and UDHR

11.15 am – Analysing the Injustice Within a Human Rights Frame Work

12.15 pm – Concrete Planning for Back Home Activities

02.00 am – Cultural Preparation Based on Injustice

03.00 pm – Closing Ceremony and Awarding the Certificates

Evaluation for Yesterday’s Program1. Film 1: Rita’s Choices and Deepening

Awareness, Comparing with Articles (UDHR)

2. Film 2: Sacred Grove and Deepening Awareness, Comparing with Articles (UDHR)

3. Film 3: Where is Home and Deepening Awareness, Comparing with Articles (UDHR)

1. Recalling Local Issues on Human Rights (Open Discussion)

2. Finding Solution for Various Human Rights Issues Based on UDHR

1. Sharpening our Goals2. Planning our Strategy3. Forming a Task Force4. Simulation Exercise

1. Group Discussion 2. Cultural Programme Presentation

1. Invocation Prayer2. Welcome Address3. Sharing Experiences by the Participants 4. Felicitations 5. Awarding Certificates6. Valedictory Address 7. Vote of Thanks

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Curriculum Outline

Methodology

PowerPoint

Lecture

Film Viewing

Presentation & Street Play

Ice Breaking & Interactions

Group Discussions

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Challenges

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Languages Gender inequality of participantsMost of the training literatures are in EnglishLack of funds (expenditures are more)The participants are not equal, based on religionsMore difficulties are there to get the permission Religious variations More distance Lack of electricity

Challenges

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Commitments & Actions

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Preparing the young adults to narrate inspiring stories of national and international heroes, who championed the cause of human rights at the cost of much sacrifice: Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Oscar Romero, Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, Medha Patkar and many others.

Organizing rallies, walks, protest marches, sit-ins, and other non-violent actions in collaboration with schools and colleges, protest against human rights violations.

Commitment & Actions

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Celebrate the ‘Human Rights Week’ in the colleges, in collaboration with all the young adults.

Make it an attractive event with a variety of programmes on the human rights theme: seminars, symposiums, debates, quiz competitions, exhibitions or using creative art forms like plays, dances, dramas, shadow plays, street plays, painting competitions and other local cultural art forms.

Commitment & Actions

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Organize essay, short story or poetry writing and painting competitions on the theme. This can be done on a local level or inter-collegiate level.

Meeting some child labourers and get their stories firsthand

Organize a panel discussion on the topic of ‘Human Rights and Religious Freedom’, inviting well-informed panellists to make presentations and respond to questions and guide discussions.

Commitment & Actions

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Visiting affected villages and collecting stories and bringing it to the medias.

Creating awareness on Human Rights among the young adults in the local communities.

Creating awareness on Human Rights among the tribal and indigenous communities

Commitment & Actions

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Themes & Topics

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Domestic Violence StarvationChild LabourAnti- ConversionReligious FreedomBonded labourSexually abused children Dowry Child MarriageChild ProstitutionSale of ChildrenUn-touchability

Street children TerrorismFemale infanticideDalit violationsMinority problemsCommunal violenceNeglecting of girl childDrug abuseIlliteracyBlack MoneyCorruptions

Themes & Topics Discussed

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Outcome & Achievements

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Made the students to involve Human Rights ActivitiesThe participants involve in Peace ActivitiesSharing the Human Rights news to their neighbours and friends Helping each otherComing forward to understand other religionsResponsibility towards social justice Getting confidents in lifeContributing for social welfare programsLoving their enemies. Living happy lifeWorking for IARF and involve in RFYN programs

Outcome & Achievements

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Achievements

Indore Branch, only young adults

Became HRE young adults facilitators

International Human Rights Day was organized by the young adults

Giving small funds for RFYN programs

Organizing local level programs, spending from their pockets

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Stories

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Ashraf is seven years old. He was branded with a hot iron box by his master, a central government official in Delhi, for drinking the dregs from a glass of milk left by the master’s children.

Stories StoriesSharada (9) and her brother Bhaskar (8) disappeared from their master’s house, a top government official in Hyderabad, some time ago. When the parents, impoverished tribals, complained to the police, they were arrested, confined in a lock up and thoroughly thrashed. What happened to the children? nobody seems to know!

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It was poverty that drove thirteen year old Rekha to run from home. An ‘uncle’ who promised to help her sold her to a brothel where she is now paid ten rupees for serving twenty clients a day. There are hundreds of children like Rekha between the ages of 10 and 16 who are forced to sell their bodies for a living!

Stories

Hundreds of minor girls from Madhya Pradesh send to Gujarat as bonded labour and trafficking they are facing child abuse everyday.

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Stories

My friends sister is ten years old. Every morning she goes to the bonded labour man, and every night at nine she comes home. He treats her cruelly; he hits her if he thinks she is working slowly or if she talks to the other children, he yells at her; he comes looking for her if she is sick and cannot go to work. I think this is very difficult for her.

‘I don’t care about school or playing. I don’t care about any of that. All i want is to bring my sister home from the bonded labour man. For six hundred rupees I can bring her home. That is our only change to bring her back. “But we cannot have 600 rupees ... We will never have 600 rupees”

Lakshmi, nine year old beedi roller, Tamilndu

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Stories

Bihar, Bijapur:  A Dalit girl was tied to a tree for over four hours and beaten up, accordin to reports from Budihal PH village in Sindagi taluk on Thursday.

The victim, Nirmala Kantheppa Harijan (14), was beaten up by one Ninganna Biradar who objected to her picking up a handful of green grass from his fields. Villagers watched helplessly as Biradar threatened them and dared anyone to stop him. Biradar was also said to have been angry over sheep belonging to Nirmala’s family grazing on his jowar crops a few days ago. Nirmala has no mother and her father was away in Maharashtra working as a labourer.

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Stories

Dec 2010. Lucknow: A minor Dalit girl was allegedly kidnapped and raped by a BSP MLA and then found herself behind bars after the MLA accused her of stealing from his house in Uttar Pradesh.

The man in question is Purshottam Narain Dwivedi, an MLA from Banda in Uttar Pradesh.

"My daughter was given Rs 50,000. She was then slapped and handed over to some men who raped her," said the victim's father Dwivedi has denied all the allegations, countering them instead by saying that he caught the girl stealing clothes and cash from his house.

"The girl worked in the MLA's house. She ran away after stealing. The MLA complained and we arrested her," said SP Anil Das. The victim has refuted this. She claimed that the MLA threatened to kill her as well. The opposition Congress has taken up the girl's cause and UP Congress President Rita Bahuguna Joshi is expected to meet the victim.

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Stories

The honor killing is one of the major human rights violation in India. The UDHR article 16 “Right to marry and to found a family” but the people are not allowed to marry other community persons whom they like. Suppose if they marry, the communities are ready to kill them to maintain their status in the village it known as “Honour Killing”. A 27-year-old youth was killed Amargarh village in Haryana's Jind district on Oct 23 2011 and his body dumped in a canal after his relationship with a dalit girl was found out

Dalits are often expected to carry out traditional roles for which they receive no compensation.  For example, they must play the drums in religious ceremonies and must remove dead animals.  Their participation in such acts only works to perpetuate the discrimination against them. Still the Dalit communities in south Tamilnadu are not allowed to cross the village by carrying the dead bodies to burry in their ground. Instead they have to go a round about may walk 4 kilometres to reach the graveyard in other direction.

Stories

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2009 hundreds of Christians were lost their houses and many were killed, the Churches also were demolished by Hindu fundamentalist in Kandhamal district in Orissa and also it happened in Karnataka. The 29-year-old nun lodged a complaint on 25 August 2008 alleging rape by a member of a Hindu mob in Kandhamal district.

StoriesMajor incidents of terrorist violence are common news in Manipur, 1992-2011, so far 862 people were murdered in the state.   A 5-year old girl was killed and her elder brother injured in a crossfire between two factions of Kuki militants in Manipur’s Chandel district bordering Myanmar, official sources said on 30 May  2009.

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Human trafficking become quit common now a days in India especially in Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar. The boys are sold to a landlord for a year 10,000 Rs in Taminadu. In the same way the boys are sold to many industries and companies from Bihar by the parents.

Stories are

Made by Human,Created by HumanNarrated by Human

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Assessments

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Assessing young adults’ prior knowledge with regard to the representative topic and core concepts, principles, and skills.

Our assessment formats include: concept maps, journal entries, reflections, graphic organizers, charts, diagrams, tables, and collages

Evaluating the extent to which young adults have mastered the core concepts, principles, and skills of the discipline(s). Asking for definitions, synonyms, examples, classification, and explanations.

Feedback sheet and personal sharing about the porgram.

Assessments

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Feedback

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For each question, please mark the circle that best describes your HRE experience:

Excellent

Very Good Fair

Could improv

e

Was the course material easy to understand? 983 470 85 15

Was the course material relevant to the subject? 613 885 49 6

Did the course material help you to understand the subject? 543 714 265 31

Were your facilitators easy to understand? 585 810 137 26

Were your facilitators knowledgeable about the subject? 811 670 54 18

Were your facilitators approachable? 991 512 41 9

Were your fellow participants friendly and co-operative? 435 694 318 106

Was this location a good learning environment? 553 799 185 16

Did you feel safe here? 698 814 38 3

Was your accommodation comfortable? 620 910 21 2

Were you given a good quality and quantity of food? 466 810 242 35

Participant Feedback Sheet

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I thought this program will be boring, but after attending, it was completely opposite and very informative.I like to attend more programs like thisThis HRE training program definitely will develop our personality skills. Freedom and Human Rights are very much interconnected ,at the same time duty is the main pillar to guarantees the freedomThis HRE program awaken my service towards the suppressed people. Now we understood the problem of other country I am very thankful to IARF for providing me this valuable training

Feedback

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I am starting to know about other religions festivals because everything here sticks to our tradition.

Many things we can do together getting knowledge from this training

We are very happy about the training. If it is possible we can introduce this HRE program for our rural people

Through this program I came to know about UDHR and Indian fundamental rights. now I got a confident to support many Dalit people in my village.

This program helped me to get many good friends from other religions and from other colleges.

I want to serve for IARF

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Income & Expenditure

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Income & ExpenditureIncome Division

S.NoExpenditure

Amount(IND-Rs)

1. Television Hire Charges 8,300

2. VCD/DVD Player Hire Charges 2,850

3. Stationary 42,340

4. Printing & Photocopying 28,490

5. Tea, Snacks, Food etc 81,875

6. Transport charges 47,560

7. Postage and courier 7,530

8. Photo and Video 10,580

9. Miscellaneous 4,795

10. Room and Chairs Hire Charges 62,500

11. LCD and Audio Hire Charges 37,500

12. Remuneration 24,475

Total 358,795

Expenditure Division

S. No Income Amount (IND-Rs)

1. Program cost 168,000

2. Remuneration 75,000

3. Additional amount 9,000

4. Local Contributions 106,795

Total 358,795

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Conclusion

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It is true, IARF has changed thousands of young adults by Human Rights Education program

The documents and literatures supported the participants to understand Human Rights clearly.

This HRE training is not just focused outward on external issues and events, but also inward on personal values, attitude and behaviour bringing together its members as an IARF family.

I wish let every schools, colleges, universities, and training centres teach Human Rights & world peace now.

I thank IARF and SACC for supporting me to complete all these HRE programs in successfully.

Conclusion

Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me now!IARF - India

Albert

Xaviour

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It’s a Journey

of Human Being

to Being Human

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