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human rights draws its power
from individual conscious understanding
of such culture which
would be manifested in people
respecting the culture of human
rights, Al-Jammali called for the
urgency to upgrade stages of
compulsory education to include
secondary stage and empower
next generation to confront challengers
and rapid changes of the
age. “We look forward to concluding
this significant meeting
with recommendations that
would contribute to the formation
of a picture of the future of education
by 2050 and we wish that
the ANNHRI and National Institutions
for Human rights would continue
their collaboration with the
AIHR, UNESCO and all stakeholders
to invest in education,” he
added.
For his part, Mr. Abdul Basit Bin
Hassan, President of the AIHR,
stated that the education issue is
a universally comprehensive
matter that the United Nations
and UNESCO have always been
endeavoring to find methods for
its development and improvement
throughout various eras,
especially during the exceptional
circumstances the world is
currently experiencing. Bin
Hassan introduced the International
Commission on the Future
of Education, stating that it consists
of 18 male and female
experts from all over the world
and that it is chaired by H.E. Ms.
Sahle-Work Zewde, President of
the Federal Democratic Republic
of Ethiopia. He explained that the
Commission’s main assignment is
to lead a multi-voiced dialogue,
which is a global conversation
that aims at searching for methods
to foresee the future of education
by 2050. He also said that
the Commission will not limit education
to schools only; rather, it
will work on a number of issues
related to education, such as that
during wars and conflicts, relationship
of education to integration,
discrimination issues and its
relationship to the environment
and modern technology, as well
as a number of education-related
issues. He noted that the Commission
considers education as the
foundation for finding solutions
for world crises and exploring
ways to elevate nations.
President of the AIHR further said
that education is open to all communities,
and it is perceived as a
shared wealth, public interest and
an integral tool used for establishing
the values of freedom, equality
and justice. He stressed in the
same context that education is a
key instrument in the development
of our integrated and
sustainable communities. He
explained that "Education is the
answer to all problems of our
world today, such as violence,
poverty, growing gap between
peoples, individuals and communities,
in addition to current complaints
related to loss of overall
environmental, economic, social
and other balances." Bin Hassan
pointed out that national institutions
for human rights are the
essence of the vision for educational
reform, noting that the
ANNHRI and AIHR are united by a
partnership that has been manifested
on several occasions. He
stated that both sides are concerned
with exploring methods to
develop issues of human rights
education and culture dissemination.
“The ANNHRI has always
been a good supporter to us at
the AIHR when it comes to
defending human rights and finding
solutions for the reformation
of the affairs of our communities,
despite difficulties and complications
related to this type of reformation.
Education has always had
a strong presence every time we
discussed the issue of reformation,
as education is and will
always be a foundation for communities'
revival and sustainable
development building,” he added.
It is worth noting that, in July
2019, UNESCO launched a global
initiative to establish a high-level
international commission to
re-imagine the future of education
by the year 2050. The International
Commission on the
Future of Education is composed
of a group of prominent experts
and opinion makers from various
areas of politics, business, arts,
humanities and civil society. Their
mission is to collectively think
about how education might need
to be reconsidered in an increasingly
complex world and provide
solutions and recommendations
formulated in a major report that
would serve as an agenda for
policy dialogue and action at multiple
levels.
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