State Level Workshop on Human Rights

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Bhubaneswar: There was two days state level workshop on Human Rights at Adhikar office, Bhubaneswar on 8th and 9th February 2014. There were about 60 participants who were youth from throughout Odisha. Mr. Sandeep Pattnayak a social activist and Humar Right Acitivist handle 1st day sessions. Mr. Chandranath Dani an Advocate and Human Rights Defender animated the second day sessions. Between the sessions Fr. Nicholas Barla and Fr. Ajay Kumar Singh gave encouraging talks for the youth.
In the first day, the youths were taught about the history of Human Rights, International definition of Human Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights(UDHR), Indian Constitutional provisions of Human Rights and the explanation of the Indian Preamble. In the afternoon there was group discussion where the youths came out with various Rights of  Adivasi, Dalit, Women and the rights of persons who are differently abled.

On the second day, the youths learnt about the various duty bearers and statutory bodies in the different level such as village, panchayat, block, district, state, country and international level. There was a mock presentation of the various Human Right violation and collectively discussed how to solve/deal with these kind of problems.
The main take away of these workshop were below. 
·    United Nation Declaration of Human Rights (UNDHR) at international level
·    Constitutional Provision of Human Rights
·    Knowledge about the Duty bears and statutory bodies at district, state, national and international level
·    D. K. Basu Guideline and Justice delivery system
·    How to respond in the violation of Human Rights

The below table also summarizes about what they have learnt
HR
Area
Articles
Indian Constitution
UDHR
Life

Education, food, water, shelter, security, social security, employment, rest and leisure, standard of living, development of personality
21
3, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25,26,29
Freedom
non violation of Fundamental Rights, movement, thoughts, religion, opinion, peaceful assembly
19
8, 13,18, 19, 20
Equality

equality before law, resource distribution, opportunity
14, 15, 16, 17
2, 7, 10, 21
Dignity

cloths, respect, recognition as person, non-forceful, non-slavery, non torture, non-cruelty, non arrest, presume innocent, status, non- Humiliation

1, 4, 5, 6,9, 11(i),)15,16
Turning compassion into action, and knowledge into light.

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