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Human Rights Courses Gaining Popularity in India

11 August 2005

Human Rights Course
The model human rights courses are orientation, certificate, diploma and degree-component courses, designed to be adopted and run by universities.
A Commonwealth Secretariat initiative to promote human rights awareness and education for adults, launched in India in May 2005, has borne fruit.

Forty Maharashtra State police officers graduated from a three-day orientation course in human rights on 26 July, in a programme run by the Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU) in Nashik, India. Another group of 40 police officers commenced a repeat course on 29 July, and 80 more will have taken the course by the end of August.

The orientation course certification is jointly issued by the YCMOU and the Human Rights Unit (HRU) of the Secretariat. This course is based on an India-specific model of human rights courses developed by the HRU and the Commonwealth Legal Education Association through the participation of Indian educators, and launched by the Secretariat with the commitment of four Indian universities in Mumbai in May this year.

The model human rights courses are orientation, certificate, diploma and degree-component courses, designed to be adopted and run by universities. YCMOU Vice-Chancellor Professor Rajan Welukar said: "Ideally, knowledge of human rights principles in India should be considered as a requirement for career advancement in the police and civil service."

Jo Ford of the HRU said that a manual has also been produced to assist adult educators in India to develop stimulating, challenging, innovative teaching and learning practices in human rights.

The human rights model curricula and manual are designed to be adapted to other parts of the Commonwealth. The Secretariat hopes to enter into arrangements with Commonwealth universities, particularly distance learning institutions, to run such courses.

 

CNIS - Commonwealth News and Information Service Issue 247, 10 August 2005

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  • 1. Aug 3 2010 7:03AM, Mukesh M.Pawar wrote:

    Dear Sir/Mam,Human Righats Courses gaining popularity in our country is a great news for us.i want to know how to make my carrier in this kind of courses like HRU.thanks


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