Human Right Education is the education that caters to the development of overall human personality. It includes respecting of rights, fulfillment of basic needs, and ensuring fundamental freedom to all human beings. The key purpose of venturing into this field of education is to promote understanding of basic human needs and stimulate the need to spread humanity, love, and brotherhood amongst nations.

In the words of UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura “Human rights education is indispensable for every individual to fully enjoy and claim a life of security and dignity. It is indispensable for public officials to give effect to human rights commitments by the State. Finally, it is indispensable for the entire society to develop and nurture a human rights culture as a prerequisite of harmonious and peaceful development”.

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