Importance Of Human Rights Education

Introduction to human rights:

Human rights are those moral values or norms that explain certain principles of human behavior, and are commonly protected as legal rights in municipal and international law. They are generally understood as absolute basic "to which a person is essentially allowed simply because he or she is a human being and which are "inherent in all human beings despite of their state, locality, language, creed, cultural origin or any other category. They are valid universally and at every time in the sense of being universal and they are egalitarian in the sense of being the same for everybody. They require empathy and the rule of law and oblige a responsibility on people to respect the human rights of others. They must not

This is why human rights education at the university level is so important. Government of Pakistan should include human rights education in educational policy at schools, colleges as well as universities level.

Unexpectedly, in Pakistan, where the need for specific human rights education is of utmost importance , there seems to be no initiative being taken at government or private levels to start human rights education at the university level.

The mandate for human rights education is obvious: one have a human right to know his rights. The Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) exhorts "every individual and every organ of society" to "strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms." Article 30 of the UDHR declares that one goal of education should be "the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms." According to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), a government "may not stand in the way of people's learning about [their