...Human rights education is all learning that develops the knowledge, skills, and values of human rights. The United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004) has defined Human Rights Education as "training, dissemination, and information efforts aimed at the building of a universal culture of human rights through the imparting of knowledge and skills and the moulding of attitudes which are directed to: (a) The strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; (b) The full development of the human personality and the sense of its dignity; (c) The promotion of understanding, respect, gender equality, and friendship among all nations, indigenous peoples and racial, national, ethnic, religious and linguistic groups; (d) The enabling of all persons to participate effectively in a free society; (e) The furtherance of the activities of the United Nations for the Maintenance of Peace." (Adapted from the Plan of Action of the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004), paragraph 2) During this Decade, the UN is urging and supporting all member states to make knowledge about human rights available to everyone through both the formal school system and through popular and adult education. Human rights education teaches both about human rights and for human rights. Its goal is to help people understand human rights, value human rights, and take responsibility for respecting, defending, and promoting human rights. An important outcome...
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...Education is an elemental human right and essential for all other human rights. It is a powerful tool by which socially and economically marginalized children and adults can lift themselves out of poverty. It also consists of the right to freedom of education. Freedom education is the right given to human beings to have access to the education of their preference without any constrictions. Right to education is a human right recognized by the United States. It includes the entire compulsion to eliminate inequity at all levels of the educational system. What is right to education? Education is the most important thing in life, it makes sense, it effect on mind, it change the character. The right to education is an inherent right. Right to education is the right which deals with the right to know and right to change their life and life style. The various types of right to education are primary education, secondary education, vocational education and higher education. “Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit”. Education shall be free for development of human personality. The human rights are developing of understanding, gender quality and make a friendship among all nations. Human rights education is provided information...
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...PAPER ON COUNTRY THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH KOREA In this research I will be describing data’s about Republic of South Korea, and discussing the conditions of early childhood education, the economy effects it has on children and families along with the issues of child and human rights violations, programs to support children with working families and other concepts that are there in South Korea. The Republic of South Koreais a small country on the far eastern edge of Asia. It is located in the southern part of the Korean peninsula. South Korea is surrounded by the Northwest Pacific Ocean around the western coast of Seoul, which is the capital of the country. The country faces japan across the East Sea and china across the yellow sea. To the north across the DMZ is NorthKorea.The country shares a border with North Korea. The Korean flag is called Taegeukgi.In the middle, there is a circle that has a red top and blue bottom. Then the top left is three straight lines, bottom left is two straight lines and two half lines between them, top right, is one straight line and four halves on both sides of the whole line, bottom right, six half lines with a white background. Its design symbolizes the principles of the yin and yang in Asian philosophy. The white background stands for the peace and purity of the Korean people. Ying and Yang is the red and blue circle in the center of the flag divided into two equal parts. Red represents positive and blue represents negative. Ying and yang...
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...The Right of Indigenous People ------------------------------------------------- Committee: United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) The past decades have seen an increase in the awareness of human rights; one of the proofs of this is the formation of the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2006. Among the problems that this council currently faces are the rights of indigenous people. Indigenous peoples are a community/group of people which was born in and inhabits a particular territory, with cultural or historical distinctiveness from other populations before being conquered by any colonial societies. They are also responsible for playing a role in protecting and conserving the territory they inhabit. In the past these people were vulnerable to exploitation and oppression from groups of colonists that form a nation state and politically dominant ethnic groups. It has been estimated that the total current population of indigenous peoples are 220 million to 350 million. With such a large population, these people deserve the rights to protect them from threats risen from western development such as the killing of animal species for economic interests, deforestation, mining, oil exploration, carbon emitting industries, persistent organic pollutants and the insatiable consumption patterns of western industries. Indigenous rights are rights that exist in recognition of the specific conditions of the indigenous peoples, which includes not only the most basic human rights...
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...Marry Wollstonecraft and Her Role in Activism Mary Wollstonecraft was a powerful thinker, philosopher, and women’s rights activist born in Spitalfields, London on 27 April 1759. According to Taylor, Mary Wollstonecraft made several accomplishments during her brief career including writing several novels, making treaties, travel narratives; conduct books, history of the French, and the children book (32). Besides her career, Mary Wollstonecraft is well recognized not only for the vindication of women’s rights but significantly advocated for the equal rights and opportunities for both men and women. In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft was quoted saying that women were not naturally inferior to men rather appeared to be because they had no education. The 18th century notion of women being less important part of the society deterred the “integration of their rights” into the human rights was unthinkable (Miriam 43). However, Mary Wollstonecraft argued that if a man was born free and entitled to every human dignity so should be the woman. The understanding of human rights and liberties became the core pillar of Mary Wollstonecraft in the vindication of equal education opportunities for men and women. Mary Wollstonecraft has been severally quoted by today’s human rights activists in the fight against gender based violence among other injustices in many parts of the world. Unfortunately, Mary Wollstonecraft’s vindications and vision for the women freedom has not been fully realized nearly...
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...Qendresa Krasniqi Essay Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Epoka University 19 May 2014 Introduction: Mary Wollstonecraft on the book Vindication of the Rights of Women writes for or better say demands better education and right for women by arguing on some others author writings. This topic is very important especially for women, because in her book we can see how women were prejudiced and discriminated at a specific time frame chosen by the author. She calls out to all women to be interested in education, and she calls men not to feel superior and believe women to be inferior because according to her the only reason women were prejudiced was that men saw women as weak and fragile compared to them. Most importantly, she argues that woman should not have only a domestic education and by saying that upon receiving an education, women will become more powerful. Personally, I agree on all her ideas, because i believe in women equality, especially when it comes to education, and women must be seen in the same manner as men in the society. This paper will show Wollstonecraft’s main ideas that she used in her famous book dedicated to women rights. A short biography of Mary Wollstonecraft: A history making woman, “mother of feminism” Mary Wollstonecraft was born on April 27th 1759 in England, in a middle-class family with an alcoholic and abusive father, and was the second child out of seven. Failures of her father and illness of her mother made her...
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...Ulises Rosas-Rivera Professor Adrianna Barkey English 101 3 February 2015 Human Traditions: A Violation of the Human Rights Human rights describe equal rights and freedom for everybody by the fact of being human and without distinction of any kind of race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other options. However, many people have always suffered from the lack of them throughout history. Both foot binding and female circumcision are good examples of violation of the human rights. In the essays “Footbinding” by John King Fairbank and “Female Circumcision: Rite of Passage or Violation of Rights” by Frances A. Althaus, the authors described each tradition as a violation of human rights. In today’s life there still many violations against human rights. Women and children are the ones who suffered the most. In a world where male-dominated society still exist, and discrimination, both men and women nearly have no rights for their better lives because of lower education. Female Circumcision or Genital Mutilation (what it must be called), it has been practiced in most of the countries in Africa. The practice of this “tradition,” according to Frances A. Althaus, “is one element of a rite of passage preparing young girls for womanhood and marriage” (Althaus 242). This practice is a complete form of gender discrimination. To all of the societies in Africa, Genital Mutilation is an integral part in social context. Actually, it gives complete authority and control of the...
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...children having legally recognized rights is a revolutionary one in many ways. Historically, children have been under the control of their parents. Since children are presumed by law to lack the capacity of adults, they are denied full participation in the political, legal and social processes. In lieu of most rights, children are afforded special protection by the state. Today, however, many consider this control (and the special protection that accompanies it) to be harmful, and even oppressive, to children. The legal rights of the Nigerian child are contained in various municipal laws and international instruments. These laws are based on certain fundamental principles relating to the promotion of human survival, prevention of harm, promotion and sustenance of human dignity and the enhancement of human development. These principles recognize the basic concept that the child is the foundation of the society and he or she assures its continuity. Accordingly, the survival and continuity of the human society depends upon the protection, preservation, nurture and development of the child. The word Right is derived from the Latin word rectus which means correct, straight, right as opposed to wrong. It may also mean in accord with law, morality and justice. As a norm, it may mean that to which a person has just and valid claim, whether it be land, or privilege of doing something or saying something such as the right of free speech. A right in its general sense is either the...
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...HAVENGA STUDENT NUMBER: 53787609 UNIQUE NUMBER: 586272 DATE: 25 August 2015 PART A: ACTIVITY 17 PAGE 37 WHY THE FOLLOWING RIGHTS MUST BE CONSIDERED WHEN SUSPENDING A LEARNER: 1-Just administrative action -The Bill of Rights states that each individual has the right to administrative action that is fair, reasonable and acceptable, and an individual has not been treated fairly in this regard he/she has the right to receive written reasons for this treatment. Suspending a learner must be done in a fair and acceptable manner. 2-Education-This section states that each learner has the right to basic education and suspending a learner may not discriminate and take away this right of the individual in an unfair manner 3-Access to information-The learner has the right to have all the information they need regarding his or her suspension.IT may not be kept from the learner whatever the case. Human dignity-The suspension may not degrade the learner’s human dignity whatsoever. The suspension may not take away the learners right to human dignity. Freedom and security of the person-The suspension may not limit the learner’s freedom unfairly. The learner still has the right to being safe from any harm by anyone. He/ she may not be punished in any unlawful way SECTION B: ACTIVITY24 PAGE 91 IN OWN WORDS MY UNDERSTANDING OF PROFFESIONAL ETHICS IN EDUCATION: Professional ethics in educati0n is the actions and behaviour of educators, these actions and behaviour is based on certain...
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...Peace Education is an Ethical Imperative -Educating for peace is an ethical imperative considering that the negation of life and well-being caused by all forms of violence. Ethical Principles: Unity, value of life, respect for human dignity, justice, and love Peace Education’s Schema of Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes/Values * Knowledge, skills, attitudes and values are integral to peace education. Knowledge concept areas: 1. Hollistic concept of peace- peace is not just the absence of direct/ physical violence but also the presence of conditions of well-being, cooperation and just relationships in the human and ecological spheres. 2. Conflict and violence- study the problems of violence in various levels. 3. Peceful alternatives a. Disarmament- abolishing war and reducing global armed forces. Re-allocating resources toward the fulfillment of basic human needs. b. Nonviolence- study philosophical and spiritual underpinnings of nonviolence s well as it’s efficacy s a method of effect change. c. Conflict Resolution, Transformation and Prevention- study effective ways of resolving conflicts nonviolently and how these can be applied into their lives. Explore ways to prevent conflict. d. Human rights- have an integral understanding of human rights and to reject all forms of repression and discrimination. e. Human Solidarity- Look at how to increase inter- religious, intercultural and inter-group trust, empathy, respect and cooperation as...
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...December 6th, 2011 Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia One of the most driving forces in the world today is the issue of power and who should have it or not have it. Power relates to rights and applies to both males and females alike. Power transcends to human rights and the free will to do as a person wants to do as long as it’s within the boundaries of the rules and regulations that govern a particular place. However, we know that power has been held by an overwhelming majority by males which has led to women being deprived of some of the basic privileges that should be afforded to every human being. There have been varying reasons why women’s rights and privileges have been denied ranging from their biological inferiority to religious reasons. Saudi Arabia is known as the birthplace of Islam. Consequentially, the country adheres to a strict interpretation of Islamic religious law called the Sharia. For example, in Saudi Arabia, men and women are not permitted to attend public events together. Furthermore, men and women are segregated in the work place with men getting finer office spaces and women getting offices that alienate them from public view. In Saudi Arabia, there is an obvious divide of gender roles where men basically have majority of the power while women are afforded very limited rights (Mackey 10). I will be evaluating women’s rights in Saudi Arabia to show how they are denied their basic rights as human beings like economic rights, marriage, and purdah (concepts...
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...of policies are mostly men role and no woman is suppose to contribute or argue in decision making . Women rights such as voting, travelling outside their country on their own and driving cars are some of the cases that are denied to (Sodafeldt ). This paper will seek to enclave and give explanation as to why the Authority in Saudi Arabia prohibit women from driving, conclusion and recommendation that need to be done to alter the situation. Al-Rasheed argues that oppression of women , their rights and the role their play in the society as the main stumbling block that Saudi women faces . He goes on further to explain that Gender Gap Index, Culture, religion and traditions as the main reasons as to why the trendy has continued despite the international community pressure. These social implications explain best why women are denied their social right in Arabia. It is believed that only close to 30% of Saudi Arabia women are literate and the less are illiterate without basic education. Moreover the system tend to favor men with best curriculum system leaving women with substandard education, they also can't take engineer and law course because the authority in charge dictate which field study. No co-curriculum activities for girls which limit chance of growth in girls from primary school to up university. This deprive women of their fundamental rights (Sodafeldt). Another explanation is gender gap index, Al-Rasheed talk about it being below the standard...
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...HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998 The Human Rights Act 1998 (also known as the Act or the HRA) came into force in the United Kingdom in October 2000. It is composed of a series of sections that have the effect of codifying the protections in the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law. All public bodies (such as courts, police, local governments, hospitals, publicly funded schools, and others) and other bodies carrying out public functions have to comply with the Convention rights. This means, among other things, that individuals can take human rights cases in domestic courts; they no longer have to go to Strasbourg to argue their case in the European Court of Human Rights. The Act sets out the fundamental rights and freedoms that individuals in the UK have access to. They include: * Right to life * Freedom from torture and inhuman or degrading treatment * Right to liberty and security * Freedom from slavery and forced labor * Right to a fair trial * No punishment without law * Respect for your private and family life, home and correspondence * Freedom of thought, belief and religion * Freedom of expression * Freedom of assembly and association * Right to marry and start a family * Protection from discrimination in respect of these rights and freedoms * Right to peaceful enjoyment of your property * Right to education * Right to participate in free elections The Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42) is an Act of Parliament...
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...SHOULD EDUCATION BE MADE COMPULSORY IN INDIA In today’s era of technological advancement, development of a country needs well educated and skilled citizens to compete with rest of the world. Education not only means learning facts but it nurtures talent and personality in an individual right from one’s childhood. It even brings up a responsible and productive citizen for the country. However, compulsory education is a part of this education which is more critical. I think education should be made compulsory in India. India has literacy rate of 74.04% which is quite below in comparison to the world average literacy rate of 84%. The 2011 census indicate that India currently has the largest illiterate population. No country can dream about development if such a large population is illiterate. So, to show up in the world, India should impose compulsory education. Moreover, the United Nations also states the right to free and compulsory education as one of the human rights. UNESCO targets at education for all by 2015. Human capital theory has important role in reasoning to why education should be made compulsory. This theory states that the more educated an individual is, the greater earning potential that individual has due to more skills he/she has acquired by education. This productivity of citizens of a country brings the nation in the list of developed countries. As For instance, United Nations is considered as a developed country and it has a literacy rate of 99% and on the...
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