The Vice-Chancellor of Doon University, Prof. VK Jain stressed on the need for being sensitive to the rights and needs of others around us. He said this while speaking at an event organised in the university on the occasion of the International Human Rights Day here on Thursday.
Addressing the gathering, the vice-chancellor urged the students to be sensitive towards those who have still been deprived of basic rights even after six decades of the nation gaining Independence. Jain along with students, faculty, administrative and non-teaching staff of the university also took the pledge to protect human rights on the occasion.
Delivering a special lecture on the relevance of human rights in the contemporary world, Professor Harsh Dobhal from the university’s School of Communication said that in the past century human rights regime around had consolidated and codified through various international conventions and treaties. The Indian freedom struggle, Indian Constitution and various provisions pertaining to law and justice were inspired and guided by international experiences elsewhere including in Europe and America. Any denial of rights and violations thereof should not be treated as personal losses of others but grave problems that can foster a climate of injustice, unrest, social conflict and violence which has implications for all. Therefore, human rights are universal, inalienable and indivisible, he stressed.
The university registrar Dr BM Harbola outlined the origin of human rights and the establishment of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) after World War II. A number of students and teachers also shared their views on human rights, growing challenges and prospects of peace in today’s world on the occasion.