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ONE DAY BASIC TRAINING PROGRAMME ON
HUMANRIGHTS
WEDNESDAY, 16 DECEMBER 2015
REPORT
Sponsored by
NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
NEW DELHI, INDIA
Sponsored by DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
AMAL COLLEGE OF ADVANCED STUDIES AFFLIATED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT&AIDED BY THE GOVT. OF KERALA
MYLADI, ERANHIMANGAD.POST, 679 329, PIN. MALAPPURAM DISTT, KERALA
REPORT OF
ONE DAY BASIC
TRAINING PROGRAMME ON
HUMAN RIGHTS
uman Rights are the Most Valuable Asset which should be protected
and taken as the Most Sacred one. Negligence and curtailment of
Human Rights will bring a lot of backwash chain effects in all sphere of
the society. Protection of Human Rights all over the world is an imperative requirement
for the sustainable and ever green Development. Lessening the importance to the
Human Rights for attaining some short term benefits would lead to emergence of chaos,
disturbance and discomfort which will bring vicious cycles of discomfort and chaos.
Negligence of Human Rights would pull back the society to a barbarian society where
there are no rays of hope present.
The Department of Economics, Amal College of Advanced Studies Conducted a
One Day Basic Training Programme on Human Rights with the support and assistance of
National Human Rights Commission. The Department had submitted the proposal for
conducting a programme on Human Rights to Celebrate the National Human Rights
Day. We find the National Human Rights Commission and its training Division most
effectively and systematically administering various Training Programme, Projects and
Research Activities. We would like to use this report to appreciate the Kind of art of the
state administration and working system of the Training Division, National Human
Rights Commission!
The training Programme is conducted on Wednesday, 16th December 2015
strictly following the training Guidelines and schedule set by National Human Rights
Commission for Conducting One Day Basic Training Programme on Human Rights. The
Training Guidelines and the detailed Training Module prepared by the National Human
Rights Commission was a big source of comfort and convenience for the organisors to
conduct the Training Programme most successful without losing the essence and crux of
the training on Human Rights intended by the National Human Rights Commission.
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The Organising Institute
Amal College of
Advanced Studies is a new
generation Institution with
minority Status established in
2005, affiliated to the
University of Calicut and
aided by the Government of
Kerala. The College is run by the Nilambur Muslim Orphanage Committee,
Nilambur (Estd.1969) to impart quality Higher Education to the people of
backward and rural areas, especially to the orphans, destitute, Backward
Communities, SCs and STs. The college has been recognised by the UGC under
section 2(f) &12(b) of the UGC Act , 1956. An Institution with minority status
conferred by the NCMEI, Govt. of India; 20% of seats in all the courses are
reserved for orphans and another twenty percent is reserved for SC/STs. The
College and its hostels are open to students of all castes and creeds and provide
amenities for the creation of an atmosphere of universal brotherhood through
value-based education. The College is located in Santhigramam, a picturesque
campus in Eranhimangad, on the banks of river Chaliyar, 4 kms from Nilambur,
a place well known for tribal settlements and teak plantations. The College is 1
km from the Calicut- Nilambur -Ootty Road and 3 kms from the Nilambur
Railway Station and 8 kms from the Adyan Para water falls tourist spot.
The Department of Economics of the College coordinated the Programme
sponsored by the National Human Rights Commission. The Department offers
courses in Economics with Foreign Trade. Along with routine academic exercises
the Department engages with various industry and community oriented
programmes. It also publishes “Amal International Journal of Economics and
Social Sciences” (AIJESS-ISSN: 2395-4913).The Present Training Programme is
as a part of its community Oriented activities which help both the students to
understand the Dynamic Role of Human Rights Protection in a fast growing
Society.
One Day Basic
Training Programme on
Human Rights The One Day basic Training Programme on Human Rights conducted by
the Department of Economics was unique in academic training programme of the
college for it was systematically organised and implemented. The comprehensive
guideline by the Training Division of the National Human Rights Commission
made the programme distinguished from the other training programme in
respect of the Content of the module prepared and suggested by the commission,
the guideline regarding study materials and utilisation of funds.
The two day training programmes for the students, teachers,
administrative staff and the interested delegates from outside college and the
delegates from neighboring colleges aims to supplement in depth awareness to
the participants on the Human rights. The objective of the training programme
was
1. To make the participant aware of the Human rights
2. The educate the participants about the avenues of human rights
protection
3. To sensitize the participants on all aspects of Human Rights
The training programme in the college was implemented in six sessions
along with the four sessions suggested by the National Human Rights
Commission. The Programme was conducted as per the following Schedule
Sl.No Name of the Session Time Tasks
1 Inaugural Session
09.15 am
09.55 am
Registration and
Inauguration
2 Session I 09.55 am Completed First Module
Introduction to Human Right 11.25 am Suggested by NHRC
Tea Break 11.25 am to 11.35 am
3 Session II
Human Rights Institutions in
India
11.35 am
01.15 pm
Completed Second
Module Suggested by
NHRC
Lunch Break 01.15 pm to 01.50 pm
4 Session III
Rights of Women and Children
01-50 pm
03.20 pm
Completed Third Module
Suggested by NHRC
Tea Break 03.20 pm to 03.30 pm
5 Session IV
Rights of Other Vulnerable
Groups
03-30
pm
05.00 pm
Completed Fourth
Module Suggested by
NHRC
6
Valedictory and Feed Back
Session
05.00 pm
05.20 pm
Feed Back from
Participants
Distribution of Certificate
Concluding Speech
As the resources persons and the guests being from the legal and academic
fields, we could easily carried out the entire session without any delay and lags.
The participants was also found interested in the training session and it helped to
proceed with the entire session with active participation of the delegates.
Students also engaged with questions at the end of each session. This helped in
making the entire sessions presented connecting to the recent issues in Human
Rights violations all over the world.
The Inaugural Session
The inaugural session of the One Day Training Programme on
Human Rights was commenced at 09.15 am sharp. The session started with the
college prayer recited by Kumari. Vishnu Priya of third year student of
Department of Psychology. The commencement of the Programme on time was
highly appreciated by the chief Guest and the college authorities. The Chief Guest
for the inaugural session was Sri Aneesh Chacko, Honourable First class Judicial
Magistrate Nilambur. He had suggested arranging the inaugural programme
without affecting and losing the training schedule and content guide lined by
National Human Rights Commission. He also had to convene the court after
finishing the inaugural suggestion. His Punctuality and sincere to his duty made
us more pleased to say that we have opted for the most suitable chief guest for
training programme on Human Rights. The chief Guest reached the training
venue ten minutes before the inaugural session and asked about the schedule of
entire training programme. He also appreciated the NHRC for issuing guidelines
and preparing most necessary training sessions. The chief Guest handed over a C
D on Human Rights released by United Nations to the secretary of the College
issued by United Nations for distributing a copy to the participants of the
Training Programme
“Human Rights
education is an important
requirement of the day. It
should be considered as
the most sacred one. It is
the obligation of the
learned persona to spread
the message that ‘Human
Rights’ the most precious
asset”, he added during
his speech. Today we witness to a lot of Human Rights violations all over the
world. It is only when the youth, the growing generations and the creative citizens
of the country, get trained and well informed about both their rights and duties,
we can effectively challenge and defend the human rights violations all over the
world. He urged
Every participant in this training session should thoroughly learn the
Universal declaration of Hunan Rights, should take an oath today it self that we
are the guardian of Human Rights without violating the rights of others in no
manner. It is also important that we have strictly the respect the rights of others
while working for Human Right Protection. We have such a globally respected
lesson from the father of our Nation, Mahatma Gandhi when he practiced the
weapons of Ahimsa during his struggle for the freedom and Human rights of our
country from the British People. Still it is considered as the most powerful
weapon ever seen in the struggle for freedom and human rights.
He also appreciated the organisors for conducting the Human Rights
Training programme and the National Human Rights Commission for promoting
such training among the students as a part of Human Rights Day Celebrations.
He concluded his speech by appreciating the punctuality in starting the
programme on time and he remarked that keeping the valuable time is also a part
of Human Rights
The coordinator of
the Programme, N
Shihabudheen, Assistant
Professor and Head,
Department of
Economics welcomed the
chief guests, the
dignitaries on the dais
and off the dais and all
the gathering. He
outlined the schedule and session of the entire training programme. He urged the
students to make use of the programme and appreciated the appreciated the
services of National Human Rights Commission and its training division the
services rendering for the safeguard of Human Rights in the Country. He also
mentioned the special interest shown by the principal for conducting such a
training programme in the college. He once again urged the participants to utilise
the programme as golden opportunity making them the most creative citizens
and he concluded the speech requesting the principal chair the inaugural session
The session is
presided over by the Dr.
M Usman, Principal of
the college. He extended
all his support for the
follow ups after the
training programme for
making the students
more sensitised about the
need and importance of
Human Rights and
Protections. Violations of Human Rights bring multi-dimensional sufferings and
vices. It bring a lot of loses to the country economically, politically and socially.
This training programme is the most valuable and prestigious programme I have
ever seen for its content, objectives and the probable impacts it may bring he
concluded his speech by this words.
Mr. P M Usmanali, Secretary of the college committee, Mr. Abdul Saki P
M, Head of the Department of English, Dr Dhanya K A, Head of the Department
of Commerce and management studies, Mr. Sameer Baby T, Head of the
Department of Tourism and hotel Management, Mr. Ali Jafar C. H, Staff
Secretary and Mithlaj C, chairman, students union conveyed their felicitation.
Mr. Abid Rahman K A, faculty Department of Economics expressed the vote of
thanks. The inaugural session concluded at 09.50 am
Thus the inaugural session were both informative and encouraging to both
the participants and organisors in their first step towards the defenders and
preservers of Human rights and in emerging as global creative citizens upholding
the messages of Universal brother hood and fraternity.
SESSION ONE-INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RIGHT
The training session started at 09.55 am. The session was completely
devoted for the Introduction to the Human Rights as per the guideline of the
National human Rights
Commission. The resource
person for this session had
reached well before the
completion of the inaugural
session. This helped in
continuing the first session on
time after a short break of five
minutes as the inaugural
session had finished earlier
than scheduled for.
Mr. Mansoor P, Lecturer in the Department of Economics welcomed both
the resource person and the participants to the first session. The resource person
for this session was Adv.Shareef Ullath, Chairman Child welfare committee,
Malappuram an autonomous committee constituted by the government for
preventing human rights violations and other atrocities and tortures against
children. Adv. Abu Siddik P, Part Time Lecturer in Law, Amal College of
Advanced Studies introduced the resource person to the participants. Adv.
Shareef Ullath heads the child welfare committee with the power of First Class
Judicial Magistrate to prevent all kinds of atrocities against the children. He is
also an active Human Rights Activist of the District and made several fruitful
interventions in this field. He also specified expected outcome and the learning
points in this session as per the guideline by the National Human Rights
Commission.
The resource person
after an introductory speech
on the definition of Human
Rights focused on the
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights. He explained
the articles of Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
and used the simplified
version of Universal
Declaration of Human Rights which was supplied to the participants as reading
material for making well understood the scope and crux of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights 1948.He also introduced various international
conventions on human Rights in this session. Mr. Mohammed Azharudheen,
Third Year Representative of the college expressed the vote of thanks in this
session and this session concluded by 11.25 am
SESSION TWO-HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTIONS IN INDIA
The second session commenced at 11.35 am after a short break for tea. As
per the guidelines of the National Human Rights Commission, this session has to
deal with Human Rights Institutions in India. The resource person invited for
taking the session was Adv. Jahageer. But as the resource persons for the third
and fourth session conveyed their inconvenience to reach the programme, the
organising committee opted for the new resource person and as the newly invited
resource person is well competent in Human Rights Institutions in India and the
resource person this session is also being interested in handling session on Rights
of other vulnerable groups, the session is interchanged to each other.
A brief outline
of the session is given
by Mrs. Shaheena
Faculty and Head in
charge of Department
of Computer science.
She also introduced
the resource person to
the participants and
greeted them to enjoy
the session. Mr.
Shefeeque V, Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Political
Science, MES College (Autonomous) Mampad was the resource person for this
session.
The resource person focused on the Protection of Human Rights Act
1993.The reading material on Protection of Human Rights Act 1993 which is
available in the NHRC website was provided to the participants. The trainer
elaborated and concentrated on important sections of the Act relating them to
some recent cases of human rights violations in the country. The resource person
also explained the structure, composition and function of NHRC and other State
Human Rights commissions. The trainer also elaborated and discussed with the
participant the intervention by the Kerala State Human Rights Commission and
its chairman in some important issues in the state of Kerala. The session is
concluded at 01.15 pm with the vote of thanks by Ms. Shalmiya C A, Secretary,
and Students Economics Association of the College
SESSION THREE-RIGHTS OF WOMMEN AND CHILDREN
This session was
started after the lunch
break at 01.50 pm. Rights
of women and children
was the broad theme of
this session. The resource
person opted for this
session was smt. Sheeba
Mumthas, District Child
Protection Officer, Kozhikode and a human Rights activist. Smt. Ankitha Francis,
Head in charge of the Department of Psychology welcomed the participants and
resource persons to the session. Smt. Nisha S, Assistant Professor and
coordinator Women Development cell of the college introduced the resource
person and explained the broad theme and specific objectives of the session. Smt.
Sheeba Mumthas actively intervenes in many cases of human rights violations
especially of the children and women. Her timely interventions and vigilant
action plan had helped many children in two districts of the state - Malappuram
and Kozhikode- from being exploited and tortured. Her past activism and present
assignments shows that she is the most suitable person for handling this session.
Smt. Sheeba Mumthas started her sessions asking the participants to
define the discrimination against women. Asking Do you agree that child labour
is in practice in our state? What is child labour? Do you know the most powerful
act against the discrimination of women in the country? Etc….After raising some
important problem of discrimination against women and the rights of the
children the resource person presented the pre prepared lesson on the UN
convention on elimination of discrimination against women and UN convention
on the right of the child.
In this session also
the participants asked some
questions regarding the
reservation for the women
in the election to the
Panchayat raj institutions.
They asked both about their
practical merits and
demerits. The resource
person clarified the discrimination against women in all field on the light of the
UN conventions especially in the political field. She also clarified that children
and women is the most exploited and the most deprived off their rights especially
y after the period of Liberalisation, Privitaisation and Globalisation (LPG) The
UN convention on the right of the children and elimination of discrimination of
women has great scope and relevance in today’s world of exploitation. It is also
important to set free all the bodies and institutions who defend against all the
discriminations against women and denial of the rights of the children. This
session finished at 03.20 pm by the vote of thanks by Mr. Mohammed Shareef,
students editor of the college Union.
SESSION FOUR-RIGHTS OF OTHER VULNERABLE GROUPS
The fourth training session
commenced at 03.30 pm
after a very short break for
tea. The session is devoted
for the rights of other
vulnerable groups like the
issues and protection of the
rights of the scheduled casts
and scheduled tribes. The
session also focused on the bonded labour system and related problems. Smt.
Megha A R, Head of the Department of Hindi welcomed the participants and
resource person to the session. She also introduced the resource person to the
participants. The resource person for this session was Adv. Jahageer, a practicing
advocate in the High Court of Kerala with famous Jurist of the Kerala Adv.
Kaleeswarm Raj.
The participants were
found highly interested in
this session although they
have been continuously
sitting three sessions before.
The unique way of
presentation by Adv.
Jahangir made the session
more energetic and active.
He started the session by
some relaxing exercises and wanted the participants to say about some human
rights violations they have made and they are undergone for. To make this more
insightful, he wanted some selected participants at random to explain their
routine form their morning to reaching their college and back to their home.
Thus after finishing their talk, he reflected the same and here he pointed out the
human rights violation each made and they have undergone for This helped to
create an insight to both their duties, obligations and the awareness of human
rights.
Adv. Jahangir
mentioning some cases he
dealt in the high court of
Kerala explained the various
issues of bonded labour
system, the child labour
issues and the definition of
child labour and the law
against child labour. He also explained the special issues of scheduled castes and
scheduled tribes and he gave more focus on the issues of scheduled tribes in
Attappadi of the state of Kerala mentioning the Scheduled castes and Scheduled
Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act of 1989.The resource person also dealt with
the Forest Rights Act of 2006 mentioning some cases in high court of Kerala
regarding deforestation, Kasturangan Report, the construction issues in the
forest areas and forest land. He stressed the need for strictly following the forest
Rights Acts of 2006 and to make the Act more stringent to prevent the misuse of
the loopholes available in the Act. If we approach the Forest Rights Act and the
protection of our Forest it would like cutting the branch of tree one sitting. We
are digging our own graveyard by highly exploiting our nature, rivers and forest.
He made the eyes of the participants opened by explaining the calamities and
destruction in near future if we continue exploiting our nature as is now. The
participants rated this session with highest scale and they reflected the most
enjoying and fruitful session. We would like appreciate and express our gratitude
to Adv. Jahangir for making the participants more sensitised on human rights
although it was tiresome time. The resource person arranged the session in a
manner that the doubts and questions of the participants combined throughout
his presentation instead of not letting them to the end of the session. The session
closed at 05.00 pm with the vote of thanks by Mr. Subash K, First year
Representative to the college Union.
VALEDICTORY SESSION
This session is intended to share the experiences and feedback of the
participants. The session also utilised for distributing certificated for selected
participants and the rest of the participants were received the certificate from the
registration counter. During the feedback session all most all the participants
who shared their feedback in highly appreciated the last session as the most
interesting. They also expressed gratitude and pleasure in getting an opportunity
sponsored by National Human Rights Commission.
In this session the president
of the college committee, Sri Ali
Mubarak delivered the valedictory
address in short words. He urged
the participants to utilise the
lessons and insights derived from
the training session to grow as an
active human rights defenders. He extended all the support and help to all the
programmes and projects for human rights protection for it is the one among the
established goal of the Amal College to stand for human rights, to empower the
marginalised and to ensure the inclusive development of all session. It is because
of this policy the college management provides special reservation for the
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in addition to the reservation norms
suggested by the government of Kerala. It also provides special reservation for
the orphans and destitute for admission to various courses in the college. He
expressed his gratitude to the
National Human Rights
Commission for grating sponsorship
for conducting a training on Human
Rights in a place where a lot of
marginalised and backward people
living in.
The session concluded with the formal vote of thanks by N Shihabudheen,
coordinator of the training programme. He expressed his sincere gratitude to the
training division of the National
Human Rights Commission for
accepting the proposal sent for
sponsorship. The encouragement
and support by the principal was
also thriving force in making the
programme more successful. He
appreciated the participants who reached at the early in morning so as to make it
possible to start the inaugural session at 09.15 am, as requested by the chief
guest. He also expressed his gratitude to his colleagues and students in the
Department of Economics, and other departments for making the training
programme a fruitful academic exercise. The training session dispersed with the
National anthem by 05.20 pm
The Training Programme in news
The organisors had intimated all the press persons to report the training
programme. The new was published in today’s programme in the local pages of
almost all the Malayalam dailies. The event is also reported in the local T V
Channels. The organisors also reported the entire programme to the press
persons and they had published the same. Some of the important new papers
reported the programme was Malayala Manaorama Daily, Madhyamam Daily,
Kerala Kaumudhi, Chandrika Daily and Suprabhatham. The inaugural session is
also reported by the local T V channels in the area.
Concluding Remarks
The one Day Basic Training Programme on Human rights sponsored by
the National Human Rights Commission and organised by the Department of
Economics was a fruitful academic exercise. It helped in making the participants
aware of the Human Rights, its importance and the avenues of Human Rights
Protection. As a result of the programme the college decided to form a human
rights forum to have a sustained platform to spread the values of human rights
and their protection. The module prepared by the training division of the
National Human Rights Commission is highly useful in designing the training
programme without losing the crux of the Human Rights Training. We are very
optimistic to suggest that, it would more achieving if the Human Rights
Commission would provide training camps in vacations for the college students.
Thus human Rights Commission can create National Human Rights Corpse, a
volunteer group to spread the Human Rights Education all over the country.
Wishing all the best and support to the activities of National Human Rights
commission we submit the Report of One Day Basic Training Programme on
Human Rights to the Training Division, National Human Rights Commission.