Article Title :
Human Rights Education: Making Inclusive in Indian Perspective

Author Name :
Dr.Mohsin Ali Khan

Keyword :
Human Rights Education (HRE)

Publisher :
Politic India Publication

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Abstract :
Human rights education aims at providing students with the abilities to accompany and produce societal changes. Education is seen as a way to empower people, improve their quality of life and increase their capacity to participate in the decision-making processes leading to social, cultural and economic policies (UNESCO).Human Rights Education is an indispensable part of the right to education and has of late gained larger recognition as a human right itself. The knowledge of the rights and freedoms, of oneself as much as of the others, is considered as a fundamental tool to guarantee the respect of all rights for each and every person. The key stone of human rights education is that the education should not only aim at producing trained professional workers but also inculcating in them a sense of higher purpose. Human rights education aims at providing students and people at large with the abilities to accomplish and produce societal changes. Education is widely acknowledged and seen as a way to empower people to improve their quality of life and increase their capacity to participate in the decision making process, leading to desired transformation in the social, cultural and economic policies. In fact, to achieve sustainable development, it is essentially important that education ought to be viewed from multifocal lens and that encompasses every single dimension of human development. The human development index reveals the prosperity of a nation in terms of economic growth, but also in the most vital areas like education, social, political and other development related areas. We however feel that there is no harm in making a beginning in the light of available reflections and personal experiences to provide a critique of HRE trajectories in India with a view to help identify core areas of challenges that require to be addressed.