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Trainers were: Ambreen Ambar, Usama Arcum Zafar, and Sardar Ahsan.

This workshop has been organized for the awareness of Rights, Roles and Responsibilities of the people, who are living in society. People who are the real stake holders of any community. It is very important that they must know their own rights as well as their rights on others.
Reasons for conducting workshop on Human Rights Education are:

• To spread awareness in the community that every alive person existing on the earth is firstly a human being. All the other things will come after it.
• Now days, in our society, the basic issue is in-tolerance, people are not even going to listen others. Acceptance level is very low. So it is very important that rest of the other things, People are first KNOW their RIGHTS.
• What are their individual rights and what he/ she having rights on others? And similarly what others have right on them.
• By giving awareness of Human Rights, and then making up their minds that they will implement in their own lives, so hopefully it will spread like a scent in the whole air and can change the weather of this planet earth in to peaceful living.

1. Fill in the human rights that you addressed in the workshop (there should be at least 3 rights addressed in one workshop)

 

Human Rights issues that we have addressed in our KNOW YOUR RIGHTS workshop are Social and Child Rights, Gender Discrimination, Citizenship Rights. As these are the basic steps and we are dealing these things in our daily routine. As we have targeted a very diverse group of participants in the workshop.

2. Learning approach used (recall the presentation we shared about learning tools like participatory approach, group work etc) you should also refer the page number and name of activity from compass. (It can be done in a table)

 

Learning Approach has been according to the participants. As we have students from college level and University, teachers from school/ college level, some are doing job in private/ govt. sectors. Etc. So Firstly, we were started with the oral presentations, presentations on power point, we have directly focused on one main thing that we have to involve every single participant by corresponding directly with him and also set a group working in a way that he/ she have got a chance to speak and express his/ her views.

HR Addressed	Approach Used	Name of Activity
Citizenship Rights	Participatory approach	Be-aware, we are watching! (Compass page-95) Education for All? (Compass page-122)
Discrimination and Xenophobia	Group Working	Access to Medicaments. (Compass Page-80) Do we have alternatives? (Compass page-111)
Child Rights	Group Working And Participatory Approach.	Let Every voice be heard. (Compass Page-153) Who Are I? (Compass page-257)

Key Challenges
Chalk down any challenges you faced. The challenges can be environmental, ethical, information validity and flow, communication challenges, facilitator participant relationship or anything. Keep it specific and clear.  Remember, these challenges should help the management to improve things.

• People and special the youth, they are totally unaware about Rights. They didn’t even know about their roles and responsibilities. So it was very hard to first make their minds that they are having some roles and responsibilities to do, for which they’ve to know about rights first.
• There was few numbers of people who were having very negative approach towards themselves. And they accept it very proudly that they think negatively and they having negative approach. And this feedback directly came from the Youth and especially from the female participants from university. So it was a challenge for us to speak with them in a larger group than talk with them individually.
• Environmentally, things were smooth as the participants were educated and they were having at least an idea of Understanding. Similarly, there are no ethical issues.
• There is an important issue, which we have faced on very first day of the workshop. As we all known of it that Human Rights is the very sensitive issue. Participants were become so much personal on every slide of the Human Rights Education presentation. And especially, when things are related to Islam, a lot of different opinions have been faced. It has become hard to make up their minds to first listen, secondly try to understand, and thirdly try to think on it. One thing has really supported us, which we’ve learned from our facilitator in our TOT: ‘’ respect the opinion of others, unless you are agreeing or not”. We have tried to promote this slogan on our workshop. And by this we’ve received a very positive response on the second day of workshop.

1. Information validity and flow, was over all good. As per the participant capacity of understanding. And we’ve tried our level best to take the things on smoothly.
2. Communication challenge: was not the hurdle in workshop. As participants are educated. So it was very easy to communicate with them in both Urdu and English. And participants felt comfortable in bi-lingual.
3. Facilitator-participant relationship: It was the best experience, when you are young and you are working with young people of similar age. We have set the format for the participants that the maximum age difference between the participants was 10-12 years. Because they were working in groups. It was easy for everyone to gave his/ her maximum input in every activity. So overall the Facilitator-Participant Relationship was very friendly and co-operative.
   

• http://youtu.be/hTlrSYbCbHE         (Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
• http://youtu.be/Pby1KngOhBY       (Everybody-Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
• http://youtu.be/sfbMCcDFzLY         (How to be a Good Citizen)
• http://youtu.be/2FmRZjh7wRc        (Childs have rights too)
• http://youtu.be/81GvcnBj0FI           (the rights of the child)
• http://youtu.be/1ZDZLe3FclU          (Making a world a better place, Rights & Responsibilities: linked with Citizenship Rights)

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