Dear Colleagues in Human Rights Education, As an input to the current discussion on human rights education and citizenship education, in the Philippines the legislature enacted a law called the National Service Training Program Act, popularly known as NSTP. All tertiary level students taking up at least a two-year collegiate education are required to enroll in NSTP for two semesters. There are three components from which to choose - Reserved Officers Training Course, Civic Welfare Training Services and Literacy Training Services. These components have one common goal -- to teach good citizenship. The Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines Regional Office 1, which I head as regional director, has sought to encourage the inclusion of human rights education in all of the three NSTP program components. We forged partnerships with eleven colleges and universities located in eight cities and four provinces of Region 1 to establish Centers for Human Rights Education. Through these Centers for Human Rights Education we have successfully integrated the teaching of human rights especially under Civic Welfare Training Services, which was the more thickly populated course under NSTP. For further inquiries about this, please don't hesitate to send me inquiry through email. We are also organizing a human rights educational tour involving the Centers for Human Rights Education. Those who will want to enroll may contact this email address so we can send details of the tour. Expenses will be shouldered by the enrollees, who will attend a seminar on human rights arranged in different Centers for Human Rights Education and also an educational tour during each day of the targeted five days. The tour will start as a pilot project in August 2005 at a cost of 60,000 pesos inclusive of local transport from Manila NAIA airport and back to places of destination, board and lodging, certificate, handouts, tour and seminar registration fee but exclusive of airfare and other visa and travel expenses from point of origin to Philippines. Needed documents for visa applications shall be provided. Very sincerely, ANITA M. CHAUHAN Regional Director Commission on Human Rights Region 1 F. Ting BLDG. Pagdalagan Norte San Fernando City 2500 La Union, Philippines Telefax : (63-072)700-3607 ======== Global Human Rights Education listserv ======== Send mail intended for the list to <hr-education@hrea.org>. Archives of the list can be found at: http://www.hrea.org/lists/hr-education/markup/maillist.php If you have problems (un)subscribing, contact <owner-hr-education@hrea.org>. **You are welcome to reprint, copy, archive, quote or re-post this item, but please retain the original and listserv source.
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