legal educationalists should lay emphasis on spreading awareness and help connect the people to the human rights which make them powerful, said Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha Speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal in a programme held at Selaqui Academy of Higher Education to mark the Human Rights Day in Dehradun on Tuesday. This event was organised by Selaqui College of law.
Selaqui College of law dean Prof Vl Mony said that Human Rights Day is held on December 10 every year, the date the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaiming its principles as the “common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations. Educated youth should be aware of their rights to protect themselves as well as help and guide others.
Kunjwal said that there is a need of organise programme to educate people, especially children and teenagers on their human rights and the importance of upholding these in their life.
The General Assembly proclaims that this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure effective recognition and observance, both among the people of member States themselves and among the people of territories under their jurisdiction.