human rights
Concept of Human Right Education
Human Right Education is the education that caters to the development of overall human personality. It includes respecting of rights, fulfillment of basic needs, and ensuring fundamental freedom to all human beings. The key purpose of venturing into this field of education is to promote understanding of basic human needs and stimulate the need to spread humanity, love, and brotherhood amongst nations.
In the words of UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura “Human rights education is indispensable for every individual to fully enjoy and claim a life of security and dignity. It is indispensable for public officials to give effect to human rights commitments by the State. Finally, it is indispensable for the entire society to develop and nurture a human rights culture as a prerequisite of harmonious and peaceful development”.
Tags: human rightsBeijing 2008 – Human Rights Are A Propaganda Game
Beijing’s loss of the 2000 Olympics Games to Sydney, Australia was attributed mainly to it’s poor human rights record. After sitting out the bidding for the 2004 Olympic events, China made a promise of improving it’s human rights record as the centerpiece of it’s successful bid for the 2008 Olympics.
In fact, prior to launching it’s bid for the 2008 Games, China voluntarily signed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which declares: “Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.”
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