Human Rights Education: Issues and Challenges

Human Rights Education can be termed as education, training and information aimed at building a universal culture of human values and rights. An education which makes us aware of our dignity and status as human beings, encompassing all human values, attitudes and behaviours, upholding human rights ethics and promoting human action is Human Rights Education. It has relevance at almost all the stages of education and concerns with all branches of knowledge.
Human Rights Laws should be differentiated from the Human Rights Education despite their close relations. While Human Rights Education provides the historical, social, philosophical and political context of human rights, Human Rights Laws provide the legal framework for the protection and implementation of human rights. The study of Human Rights Law is a specialized kind of activity and training. This distinction needs to be kept in mind while addressing the issues and challenges of Human Rights Education.
The book takes up the major aspects of Human Rights Education, including human rights movement in India, human rights framework and gender equality, revisiting human rights in the light of future threats, and ethical quotient in Human Rights Education, among others.
It will appeal to all those concerned with Human Rights Education.