States and the Provision of Human Rights Education
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Human rights education (HRE) aims to provide people the knowledge, skills, and values they need to recognize, assert, and defend their rights. This paper takes a unique and thought-provoking method to interpreting the responsibility to deliver human rights education. This paper argues that there is a link between the provision of human rights education and the creation of a culture of human rights by tracing the history of human rights education as part of the UN's mandate. It implies that states should embrace human rights education as a proactive strategy rather than a reactive response to a problem after it has occurred. Before moving on to a contemporary examination of the General Assembly's Decade for Human Rights Education and the ongoing World Programme for Human Rights Education, this paper conducts a scholarly analysis of the nature and scope of the human rights education mandate and a variety of UN instruments. While there has been a considerable worldwide push to promote human rights education, domestic implementation by states remains weak, according to this paper. Recognizing that there are several barriers and problems in the way of fully realizing human rights education, this paper offers the reader some practical solutions for overcoming these obstacles and raising the level of human rights education in schools.
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