[hr-education] Re: Human rights/children's rights values

Greetings from India, 

We are thankful for your kind information on HRE on children. The points
on education on atttitudes are very appropriate for our work too in India.
As we have been working among the children from the Tsunami affected area
in south India, we found that HRE is quite a task, due to their present
situation. We had to add some more strategies in education: Value for
listening to each other, in the name of: LISTENING FOR A CHANGE, respect
for ethnic differences. Inter-personal values among fisher community
children and non fishing community children from lower caste and class
structure, and so on. Anyway we try to make our education as an informal
education through play, wall writing, newspaper picture collection, songs
and games.

We are also working among the children from the traditional sex workers
from the Hindu temples (an age old practice in north part of karnataka
(899 km from Bangalore city (the IT capital of India) we try to imbibe the
values for the girl as mother, comparing to the mother earth, mother
nature etc. because of the social stigma patched on them.

In solidarity, 

Sam Chelladurai 
Executive Director 
READ Centre 
59.2nd Main, Srimarutinagar 
JP.Nagar 7th Phase 
Bangalore 560078. India 



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On 22 January 2007, Wim Taelman wrote: 

Some time ago I sent in a message to this list with a request for support
in determining which are the values that we consider 'children's rights
values' (or: human rights values). I amgrateful to all those who have sent
me their contribution. One of the reactions I received was a warning to
take in consideration that values are related to culture, and that from a
multicultural perspective it is far from evident to reach a consensus on
which should be considered the 'human rights values'. From this reaction
we concluded that an 'attitudes' approach is preferable: attitudes are
more concrete than values. Other reactions related to the word and concept
'tolerance'.

We worked out the next set of attitudes children rights education with
young people could contribute to (apart from fostering knowledge,
attitudes and skills fostering children's rights in their legal meaning).

Basic attitude: respect for everyone's human dignity, one's own
dignity included. This basic attitude encompasses: 
- Respect for everyone: everyone's life, fysical and mental
integrity, freedom, property, privacy, including one's own. 
- Respect for differences: in ethnic, religious, cultural aspects, in
opinion, in identity,..., including one's own. 
- Taking up one's own responsibility in society. 
- Equal treatment of all, man/woman,... 
- Securing of the rights of the next generations: prudence in
relationship to nature and natural resources. 
- Empathy/solidarity, contributing to a life with adequate standard
of living and without fear or oppression for all. 

Please send your general or more detailed reactions on this. 

Looking forward to your contributions. 





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