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

Dear Steve, 

I refrained from going into the conversation and you did it for me. Thank
you.

You did so saying that: "-- this actually transcends all cultures and
cultural viewpoints and aims at the bullseye of human rights world wide."

You have said it all.

All cultures, religions and groups etc., etc. stand to get richer if and
when communities world wide will attend to their societal development
understanding human rights as a way of life. The political moral and legal
implications, indeed, transcend all cultures and view points. Human rights
provide all women, men, youth and CHILDREN a guiding framework to find and
safely anchor their lives in this troubled world, becoming creative and
committed agents of change (after all, good learning is a process of
internalizing the knowledge we gain; to make it our own).

Unless we understand the holistic vision of ham rights as a way of life
and what it holds in it for ALL humanity we cannot be human rights
educators, as I firmly believe after almost 20 years in the filed that all
people in the world want to belong in community in dignity with others. We
have no other option and it is a very positive one!!

Dignity is not just a word to be articulated by prophets but a very
meaningful notion, away from humiliation, that is very well encoded in the
many Covenants and Conventions, ascribed through norms and standards to
overcome oppressive orders such as patriarchalism -- a word invented by
Betty Reardon -- and struggle for equality and lack of discrimination...no
cultural compromises.

Thank you, 

Shula 
PDHRE 
People's Movement for Human Rights Learning 
526 West 111th St. Suite 4E, 
New York, NY 10025, USA 
Tel: 1-212-749-3156 * Fax 1-212-666-6325 
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On 29/01/2007, Steven Handwerker wrote: 

> The "Culture of Peace" formulation has been engaged for many years
> now by Peace Psychologists world wide...it is available on the 
> web...very akin to the themes being presented. This actually
> transcends all cultures and cultural viewpoints and aims at the
> bullseye of human rights world wide... 
> 





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