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.
-Plan of action for the United Nations Decade for
Human Rights Education(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 and 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.