LAAYOUNE: TRAINING SESSION ON HOW TO ORGANIZE PEDAGOGICAL, CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND MEDIA RELATED ACTIVITIES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP CLUBS

The Regional Human Rights Commission of Laayoune-Smara organizes a training session on how to hold pedagogical, cultural, social and media related activities for human rights and citizenship clubs (operating within schools). This session will be held in cooperation with the Regional Academy for Education and Training in the Region of Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra, on 27-28 of April 2013, at the main office of the Academy in Laayoune.

This training session will held in implementation of the commission’s plan of action, which lists capacity building in the area of human rights as a priority. Teachers and administrative and pedagogical staff with an experience in civil society and an interest in human rights and in the actions of the human rights and citizenship clubs will take part in this training. Moderators and supervisors of the educational clubs within schools and some teachers and administrative/pedagogical staff who have already participated in the two first training sessions will also take part in the session.

Experts will give presentations on the culture of human rights and its references and the role of the human rights and citizenship clubs. They will highlight “the position and role of the human rights and citizenship clubs within schools”, “the human rights references for the human rights and citizenship clubs”, “the legislative and the pedagogical framework of the clubs”, “methods and mechanisms to create human rights and citizenship clubs” and “how to organize pedagogical, cultural, social and media related activities”.

The human rights education is participation based practice that helps empower individuals, groups and communities. It improves knowledge and builds skills and positions consistent with human rights as they are universally recognized.

Human rights, according to the OHCHR, “can only be achieved through an informed and continued demand by people for their protection. Human rights education promotes values, beliefs and attitudes that encourage all individuals to uphold their own rights and those of others. It develops an understanding of everyone's common responsibility to make human rights a reality in each community.”

“Human rights education constitutes an essential contribution to the long-term prevention of human rights abuses and represents an important investment in the endeavor to achieve a just society in which all human rights of all persons are valued and respected.”