[hr-education] Re: First phase of the World Programme for HRE

Dear all:

It is very important to hear about the implementation of the World
Programme. Actually HRE for primary and secondary school was introduced in
Cambodia since 1995 and it has been included in the curriculum of the
primary and secondary school too. However the implementation of the
program was not completed and improvements of the curriculum are needed
for it to be more appropriate and with more detail about the human rights
situation of the world.

The government initiated a program of legal and judicial reform in which
the improvement of including the human rights and civil rights concept to
the curriculum of the primary and secondary school was one of other
programs of the larger legal and judicial reform strategy. The strategy
was officially adopted by the government of Cambodia in June 2003. The
program is composed of seven strategic objectives -- improving human
rights is one of them. Actually the government showed a strong commitment
to improve the situation of human rights in Cambodia but since the
government has many reform programs to execute the budget allocation for
the human rights education program is still limited; the program was not
implemented well because of budget constraints. However, some improvement
has been a result from the implementation of HRE.

However the improvement of the human rights education program needs more
consideration from all stakeholders. Government alone can't fulfill all
the huge goal of human rights improvement through education. Donors and
international organizations play a very important role to assist
governments to achieve this objective, where is the goal of the World
Programme for human rights education, as well as for the whole people in
the world.

Khlok Dara 
Human rights project manager 
Project Management Unit of the Council of Legal and Judicial Reform 
Phnom Penh, Cambodia 
fax: 855-23-880 631 
phone: 855-23-880-640 
website: www.cljrkhmer.org 






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