Annual Report - National Human Rights Commission

Promotion of Human Rights Literacy and Awareness
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sensitization, which is one of the mandates of the Commission under Sec 12(h) of Human
Rights Act, 1993. One of the main endeavours of the Commission is to promote citizens’
increasing and persistent demand for dignity, respect, justice and prevent violations of their
human rights by public servants. For this, it is essential that the public servants should be
sensitized through training, to meet the human rights challenges that they encounter in their
work sphere or else violations will continue to escalate and flourish. Simultaneously, the
Commission is required to encourage the NGOs and other institutions working in the field
of human rights as partners. The training programme involved civil administrators, law
enforcement agencies, para-military forces, lawyers, academicians judicial officers,
NGOs, prison officers and other stakeholders. This programme proved to be useful in
enhancing the professional knowledge, human rights awareness, skills and perception of
the participants.
13.10 When the Commission talks about Human Rights Education, it must be understood
that a context specific broad and dynamic human rights education is being referred to.
Advancing this trend, the Commission organized a programme of Human Rights Education
from a disability perspective in four distinct phases to empower the Law schools and
departments with the capacity to deliver an optional paper in ‘Human Rights, Disability and
Law’ and simultaneously help them address disability throughout the programme of
legal studies.
● Phase I included face-to-face training at NLSIU, Bangalore in July 2004 attended by 30
participants comprising law faculties and disability and human rights advocates.
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In Phase II the participants undertook individual studies using desk research and field
investigations.
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Phase III included a seminar in which participants shared findings of their studies.
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In Phase IV, the participants facilitated five training workshops for a group of Law Faculties,
Disability Rights and Human Rights advocates.
13.11 These workshops were organized at:
● NUJS, Calcutta from 19-21 January, 2005
● NLS, Bhopal from 1-3 February, 2005
● Cochin University of Science and Technology from 10-12 February, 2005
● ILS Law College, Pune from 19-21 February, 2005
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