Institute of Human Rights Education 6,Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai – , Tamilnadu Tel.: / Fax: Institute of Human Rights Education National Programme of Human Rights Education under UN World Program on HRE

Institute of Human Rights Education 6,Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai – , Tamilnadu Tel.: / Fax: Why HRE To humanise society To humanise education For quality education

Institute of Human Rights Education 6,Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai – , Tamilnadu Tel.: / Fax: UN Vision Building a Universal Human Rights Culture Strengthening respect for human rights & fundamental freedoms Fostering stable and harmonious relations among communities, mutual understanding, tolerance, peace, gender equality Through UN Decade of HRE : World programme of HRE : ( further extended) Two Dimensions Human Rights Through Education Human Rights in Education

Institute of Human Rights Education 6,Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai – , Tamilnadu Tel.: / Fax: Why HRE Applied to Indian Context To build citizenry for Democratic, Secular, Egalitarian India To realise Vision of Mahatma Gandhi & Ambedkar, with Gandhi’s compassion & Ambedkar’s passion To empower the weaker & marginalised; To sensitise the privileged To ensure Peace & Sustainable Development

Institute of Human Rights Education 6,Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai – , Tamilnadu Tel.: / Fax: Born 1997 – Headquarters : Madurai, Tamil Nadu Confined to Tamil Nadu till 2005 Expanded into National Programme from 2005 Presence in 16 states today Institute of Human Rights Education NATIONAL PROGRAM 3,11,477 students 4,475 teachers 3,884 schools Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes Schools All SC-ST schools in Tamil Nadu & Orissa Tamil Nadu : 370 Schools Orissa : 471 schools

Institute of Human Rights Education 6,Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai – , Tamilnadu Tel.: / Fax: Tamilnadu Year2007 – On goingDistrictsSchoolsStudentsTeachers Chennai Corporation Schools , All schools of Erode District , All schools of Sivagangai District , All schools of Dindigul District , SC/ST Schools in Tamilnadu , Total ,

Institute of Human Rights Education 6,Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai – , Tamilnadu Tel.: / Fax: Present Status at the National Level

Institute of Human Rights Education 6,Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai – , Tamilnadu Tel.: / Fax: Features of the Program  3 year program within school time  Not Examination Oriented  Universal & Contextual  Child-Centred Pedagogy  Programme: Content Class VI : Introduction to Human Rights Class VII : Child Rights Class VIII : Discrimination ( Caste, Gender, Class, Disability & others)  9 Languages : Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Oriya, Bengali, Gujarati, English

Institute of Human Rights Education 6,Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai – , Tamilnadu Tel.: / Fax: Kerala 2006 onwards Pilot Project : schools in 6 Districts State Level Advocacy Yathra Support of Private Management schools 226 schools, children, 250 teachers HMs orientation – 8 programs Teachers training – 6 programs 35 thousand modules printed HRE modules distributed to all the children

Institute of Human Rights Education 6,Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai – , Tamilnadu Tel.: / Fax: Structure State Partner Implementing partners State Advisory Committee State Coordinators State level Curriculum Committee State Resource Team

Institute of Human Rights Education 6,Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai – , Tamilnadu Tel.: / Fax:  Identification of state partner  Govt./ Management Permission  National & State Advisory Committees  Curriculum Committee in each state  Resource team for training of teachers  Orientation to Heads of Schools  Intensive Training of HRE teachers – 3 – 5 days  Frequent School Visits by Coordinators & implementation partners  Periodical capacity building of HRE teachers  Newsletters, audio visual materials etc  Summer and Winter Camps for students Process of the Programme

Institute of Human Rights Education 6,Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai – , Tamilnadu Tel.: / Fax: National Advisory Committee Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer Justice Shivaraj V. Patil Justice H. Suresh Justice Sadashiva Dr. Shantha Sinha Prof. Krishna Kumar Prof. V.N. Rajasekaran Pillai Prof. Muchkund Dubey Mr. P.S. Krishnan, IAS Rev. Sr. Cyril Prof. K. N. Panikkar

Institute of Human Rights Education 6,Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai – , Tamilnadu Tel.: / Fax: National Advisory Committee- cont. Prof. D.P. Pattanaik Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer Prof. U.R. Ananthamurthy Prof. Vina Mazumdar Mr. K.R. Venugopal, IAS Dr. Andal Damodharan Prof. Hara Gopal Dr. Babu Mathew Prof. V. Vijayakumar Fr. Raymond Ambroise Ms. Mina Swaminathan

Institute of Human Rights Education 6,Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai – , Tamilnadu Tel.: / Fax:  Changing from module-centric mode to multi- mode: - Exorbitant cost of supplying modules to all students - To free students from tyranny of the textbook New initiatives

Institute of Human Rights Education 6,Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai – , Tamilnadu Tel.: / Fax: Cont… - New Mode: - Content in Flip Charts - Work-book to all students - A few modules for group work - teacher manual - digital form - HR clubs HRE Module in Braille script in Oriya language

Institute of Human Rights Education 6,Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai – , Tamilnadu Tel.: / Fax: Impact of HRE  Hundreds of Stories  Transformation of teachers-  Students challenging  female infanticide  Caste prejudice  child labour,  school drop out  child marriage  domestic violence,  discrimination against women  fathers’ drunkenness

Institute of Human Rights Education 6,Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai – , Tamilnadu Tel.: / Fax:  Impact radiating into community  Impact stories in newsletters  Impact study by UN ‘Schooling for Justice’  Impact study by Prof. Monisha Bajaj, Columbia University Impact of HRE

Institute of Human Rights Education 6,Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai – , Tamilnadu Tel.: / Fax: International & National Recognition  UN Appreciation in 2002 & 2005  UN Sponsored Study  IHRE Executive Director participation in UN World Programme for HRE  Nepal UNICEF Team Visit  NHRC Appreciation  IHRE Chairperson Member of NHRC Task Force on HRE  IHRE Chairperson Member of NCERT Committee on HRE

Institute of Human Rights Education 6,Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai – , Tamilnadu Tel.: / Fax: Requests to MHRD Respecting UN MANDATE 1.To include HRE in the school curriculum 2.To Introduce HRE in Kendriya Vidyalayas, Navodaya Vidyalayas etc; 3.To write to all the state govts. to introduce HRE 4.To encourage state govts to associate with IHRE to take HRE to schools; 5.To launch Human Rights Clubs in all schools, along the model of NSS, NCC etc 6.To recognize and certify the IHRE as a special institution with expertise in the field 7.To organize a national seminar to persuade state govts to offer HRE

Institute of Human Rights Education 6,Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai – , Tamilnadu Tel.: / Fax: THANK YOU