ONE DAY BASIC TRAINING PROGRAMME ON

HUMANRIGHTS

WEDNESDAY, 16 DECEMBER 2015

REPORT

Sponsored by

NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

NEW DELHI, INDIA

Sponsored by DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

AMAL COLLEGE OF ADVANCED STUDIES AFFLIATED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT&AIDED BY THE GOVT. OF KERALA

MYLADI, ERANHIMANGAD.POST, 679 329, PIN. MALAPPURAM DISTT, KERALA

REPORT OF

ONE DAY BASIC

TRAINING PROGRAMME ON

HUMAN RIGHTS

uman Rights are the Most Valuable Asset which should be protected

and taken as the Most Sacred one. Negligence and curtailment of

Human Rights will bring a lot of backwash chain effects in all sphere of

the society. Protection of Human Rights all over the world is an imperative requirement

for the sustainable and ever green Development. Lessening the importance to the

Human Rights for attaining some short term benefits would lead to emergence of chaos,

disturbance and discomfort which will bring vicious cycles of discomfort and chaos.

Negligence of Human Rights would pull back the society to a barbarian society where

there are no rays of hope present.

The Department of Economics, Amal College of Advanced Studies Conducted a

One Day Basic Training Programme on Human Rights with the support and assistance of

National Human Rights Commission. The Department had submitted the proposal for

conducting a programme on Human Rights to Celebrate the National Human Rights

Day. We find the National Human Rights Commission and its training Division most

effectively and systematically administering various Training Programme, Projects and

Research Activities. We would like to use this report to appreciate the Kind of art of the

state administration and working system of the Training Division, National Human

Rights Commission!

The training Programme is conducted on Wednesday, 16th December 2015

strictly following the training Guidelines and schedule set by National Human Rights

Commission for Conducting One Day Basic Training Programme on Human Rights. The

Training Guidelines and the detailed Training Module prepared by the National Human

Rights Commission was a big source of comfort and convenience for the organisors to

conduct the Training Programme most successful without losing the essence and crux of

the training on Human Rights intended by the National Human Rights Commission.

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The Organising Institute

Amal College of

Advanced Studies is a new

generation Institution with

minority Status established in

2005, affiliated to the

University of Calicut and

aided by the Government of

Kerala. The College is run by the Nilambur Muslim Orphanage Committee,

Nilambur (Estd.1969) to impart quality Higher Education to the people of

backward and rural areas, especially to the orphans, destitute, Backward

Communities, SCs and STs. The college has been recognised by the UGC under

section 2(f) &12(b) of the UGC Act , 1956. An Institution with minority status

conferred by the NCMEI, Govt. of India; 20% of seats in all the courses are

reserved for orphans and another twenty percent is reserved for SC/STs. The

College and its hostels are open to students of all castes and creeds and provide

amenities for the creation of an atmosphere of universal brotherhood through

value-based education. The College is located in Santhigramam, a picturesque

campus in Eranhimangad, on the banks of river Chaliyar, 4 kms from Nilambur,

a place well known for tribal settlements and teak plantations. The College is 1

km from the Calicut- Nilambur -Ootty Road and 3 kms from the Nilambur

Railway Station and 8 kms from the Adyan Para water falls tourist spot.

The Department of Economics of the College coordinated the Programme

sponsored by the National Human Rights Commission. The Department offers

courses in Economics with Foreign Trade. Along with routine academic exercises

the Department engages with various industry and community oriented

programmes. It also publishes “Amal International Journal of Economics and

Social Sciences” (AIJESS-ISSN: 2395-4913).The Present Training Programme is

as a part of its community Oriented activities which help both the students to

understand the Dynamic Role of Human Rights Protection in a fast growing

Society.

One Day Basic

Training Programme on

Human Rights The One Day basic Training Programme on Human Rights conducted by

the Department of Economics was unique in academic training programme of the

college for it was systematically organised and implemented. The comprehensive

guideline by the Training Division of the National Human Rights Commission

made the programme distinguished from the other training programme in

respect of the Content of the module prepared and suggested by the commission,

the guideline regarding study materials and utilisation of funds.

The two day training programmes for the students, teachers,

administrative staff and the interested delegates from outside college and the

delegates from neighboring colleges aims to supplement in depth awareness to

the participants on the Human rights. The objective of the training programme

was

1. To make the participant aware of the Human rights

2. The educate the participants about the avenues of human rights

protection

3. To sensitize the participants on all aspects of Human Rights

The training programme in the college was implemented in six sessions

along with the four sessions suggested by the National Human Rights

Commission. The Programme was conducted as per the following Schedule

Sl.No Name of the Session Time Tasks

1 Inaugural Session

09.15 am

09.55 am

Registration and

Inauguration

2 Session I 09.55 am Completed First Module

Introduction to Human Right 11.25 am Suggested by NHRC

Tea Break 11.25 am to 11.35 am

3 Session II

Human Rights Institutions in

India

11.35 am

01.15 pm

Completed Second

Module Suggested by

NHRC

Lunch Break 01.15 pm to 01.50 pm

4 Session III

Rights of Women and Children

01-50 pm

03.20 pm

Completed Third Module

Suggested by NHRC

Tea Break 03.20 pm to 03.30 pm

5 Session IV

Rights of Other Vulnerable

Groups

03-30

pm

05.00 pm

Completed Fourth

Module Suggested by

NHRC

6

Valedictory and Feed Back

Session

05.00 pm

05.20 pm

Feed Back from

Participants

Distribution of Certificate

Concluding Speech

As the resources persons and the guests being from the legal and academic

fields, we could easily carried out the entire session without any delay and lags.

The participants was also found interested in the training session and it helped to

proceed with the entire session with active participation of the delegates.

Students also engaged with questions at the end of each session. This helped in

making the entire sessions presented connecting to the recent issues in Human

Rights violations all over the world.

The Inaugural Session

The inaugural session of the One Day Training Programme on

Human Rights was commenced at 09.15 am sharp. The session started with the

college prayer recited by Kumari. Vishnu Priya of third year student of

Department of Psychology. The commencement of the Programme on time was

highly appreciated by the chief Guest and the college authorities. The Chief Guest

for the inaugural session was Sri Aneesh Chacko, Honourable First class Judicial

Magistrate Nilambur. He had suggested arranging the inaugural programme

without affecting and losing the training schedule and content guide lined by

National Human Rights Commission. He also had to convene the court after

finishing the inaugural suggestion. His Punctuality and sincere to his duty made

us more pleased to say that we have opted for the most suitable chief guest for

training programme on Human Rights. The chief Guest reached the training

venue ten minutes before the inaugural session and asked about the schedule of

entire training programme. He also appreciated the NHRC for issuing guidelines

and preparing most necessary training sessions. The chief Guest handed over a C

D on Human Rights released by United Nations to the secretary of the College

issued by United Nations for distributing a copy to the participants of the

Training Programme

“Human Rights

education is an important

requirement of the day. It

should be considered as

the most sacred one. It is

the obligation of the

learned persona to spread

the message that ‘Human

Rights’ the most precious

asset”, he added during

his speech. Today we witness to a lot of Human Rights violations all over the

world. It is only when the youth, the growing generations and the creative citizens

of the country, get trained and well informed about both their rights and duties,

we can effectively challenge and defend the human rights violations all over the

world. He urged

Every participant in this training session should thoroughly learn the

Universal declaration of Hunan Rights, should take an oath today it self that we

are the guardian of Human Rights without violating the rights of others in no

manner. It is also important that we have strictly the respect the rights of others

while working for Human Right Protection. We have such a globally respected

lesson from the father of our Nation, Mahatma Gandhi when he practiced the

weapons of Ahimsa during his struggle for the freedom and Human rights of our

country from the British People. Still it is considered as the most powerful

weapon ever seen in the struggle for freedom and human rights.

He also appreciated the organisors for conducting the Human Rights

Training programme and the National Human Rights Commission for promoting

such training among the students as a part of Human Rights Day Celebrations.

He concluded his speech by appreciating the punctuality in starting the

programme on time and he remarked that keeping the valuable time is also a part

of Human Rights

The coordinator of

the Programme, N

Shihabudheen, Assistant

Professor and Head,

Department of

Economics welcomed the

chief guests, the

dignitaries on the dais

and off the dais and all

the gathering. He

outlined the schedule and session of the entire training programme. He urged the

students to make use of the programme and appreciated the appreciated the

services of National Human Rights Commission and its training division the

services rendering for the safeguard of Human Rights in the Country. He also

mentioned the special interest shown by the principal for conducting such a

training programme in the college. He once again urged the participants to utilise

the programme as golden opportunity making them the most creative citizens

and he concluded the speech requesting the principal chair the inaugural session

The session is

presided over by the Dr.

M Usman, Principal of

the college. He extended

all his support for the

follow ups after the

training programme for

making the students

more sensitised about the

need and importance of

Human Rights and

Protections. Violations of Human Rights bring multi-dimensional sufferings and

vices. It bring a lot of loses to the country economically, politically and socially.

This training programme is the most valuable and prestigious programme I have

ever seen for its content, objectives and the probable impacts it may bring he

concluded his speech by this words.

Mr. P M Usmanali, Secretary of the college committee, Mr. Abdul Saki P

M, Head of the Department of English, Dr Dhanya K A, Head of the Department

of Commerce and management studies, Mr. Sameer Baby T, Head of the

Department of Tourism and hotel Management, Mr. Ali Jafar C. H, Staff

Secretary and Mithlaj C, chairman, students union conveyed their felicitation.

Mr. Abid Rahman K A, faculty Department of Economics expressed the vote of

thanks. The inaugural session concluded at 09.50 am

Thus the inaugural session were both informative and encouraging to both

the participants and organisors in their first step towards the defenders and

preservers of Human rights and in emerging as global creative citizens upholding

the messages of Universal brother hood and fraternity.

SESSION ONE-INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RIGHT

The training session started at 09.55 am. The session was completely

devoted for the Introduction to the Human Rights as per the guideline of the

National human Rights

Commission. The resource

person for this session had

reached well before the

completion of the inaugural

session. This helped in

continuing the first session on

time after a short break of five

minutes as the inaugural

session had finished earlier

than scheduled for.

Mr. Mansoor P, Lecturer in the Department of Economics welcomed both

the resource person and the participants to the first session. The resource person

for this session was Adv.Shareef Ullath, Chairman Child welfare committee,

Malappuram an autonomous committee constituted by the government for

preventing human rights violations and other atrocities and tortures against

children. Adv. Abu Siddik P, Part Time Lecturer in Law, Amal College of

Advanced Studies introduced the resource person to the participants. Adv.

Shareef Ullath heads the child welfare committee with the power of First Class

Judicial Magistrate to prevent all kinds of atrocities against the children. He is

also an active Human Rights Activist of the District and made several fruitful

interventions in this field. He also specified expected outcome and the learning

points in this session as per the guideline by the National Human Rights

Commission.

The resource person

after an introductory speech

on the definition of Human

Rights focused on the

Universal Declaration of

Human Rights. He explained

the articles of Universal

Declaration of Human Rights

and used the simplified

version of Universal

Declaration of Human Rights which was supplied to the participants as reading

material for making well understood the scope and crux of the Universal

Declaration of Human Rights 1948.He also introduced various international

conventions on human Rights in this session. Mr. Mohammed Azharudheen,

Third Year Representative of the college expressed the vote of thanks in this

session and this session concluded by 11.25 am

SESSION TWO-HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTIONS IN INDIA

The second session commenced at 11.35 am after a short break for tea. As

per the guidelines of the National Human Rights Commission, this session has to

deal with Human Rights Institutions in India. The resource person invited for

taking the session was Adv. Jahageer. But as the resource persons for the third

and fourth session conveyed their inconvenience to reach the programme, the

organising committee opted for the new resource person and as the newly invited

resource person is well competent in Human Rights Institutions in India and the

resource person this session is also being interested in handling session on Rights

of other vulnerable groups, the session is interchanged to each other.

A brief outline

of the session is given

by Mrs. Shaheena

Faculty and Head in

charge of Department

of Computer science.

She also introduced

the resource person to

the participants and

greeted them to enjoy

the session. Mr.

Shefeeque V, Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Political

Science, MES College (Autonomous) Mampad was the resource person for this

session.

The resource person focused on the Protection of Human Rights Act

1993.The reading material on Protection of Human Rights Act 1993 which is

available in the NHRC website was provided to the participants. The trainer

elaborated and concentrated on important sections of the Act relating them to

some recent cases of human rights violations in the country. The resource person

also explained the structure, composition and function of NHRC and other State

Human Rights commissions. The trainer also elaborated and discussed with the

participant the intervention by the Kerala State Human Rights Commission and

its chairman in some important issues in the state of Kerala. The session is

concluded at 01.15 pm with the vote of thanks by Ms. Shalmiya C A, Secretary,

and Students Economics Association of the College

SESSION THREE-RIGHTS OF WOMMEN AND CHILDREN

This session was

started after the lunch

break at 01.50 pm. Rights

of women and children

was the broad theme of

this session. The resource

person opted for this

session was smt. Sheeba

Mumthas, District Child

Protection Officer, Kozhikode and a human Rights activist. Smt. Ankitha Francis,

Head in charge of the Department of Psychology welcomed the participants and

resource persons to the session. Smt. Nisha S, Assistant Professor and

coordinator Women Development cell of the college introduced the resource

person and explained the broad theme and specific objectives of the session. Smt.

Sheeba Mumthas actively intervenes in many cases of human rights violations

especially of the children and women. Her timely interventions and vigilant

action plan had helped many children in two districts of the state - Malappuram

and Kozhikode- from being exploited and tortured. Her past activism and present

assignments shows that she is the most suitable person for handling this session.

Smt. Sheeba Mumthas started her sessions asking the participants to

define the discrimination against women. Asking Do you agree that child labour

is in practice in our state? What is child labour? Do you know the most powerful

act against the discrimination of women in the country? Etc….After raising some

important problem of discrimination against women and the rights of the

children the resource person presented the pre prepared lesson on the UN

convention on elimination of discrimination against women and UN convention

on the right of the child.

In this session also

the participants asked some

questions regarding the

reservation for the women

in the election to the

Panchayat raj institutions.

They asked both about their

practical merits and

demerits. The resource

person clarified the discrimination against women in all field on the light of the

UN conventions especially in the political field. She also clarified that children

and women is the most exploited and the most deprived off their rights especially

y after the period of Liberalisation, Privitaisation and Globalisation (LPG) The

UN convention on the right of the children and elimination of discrimination of

women has great scope and relevance in today’s world of exploitation. It is also

important to set free all the bodies and institutions who defend against all the

discriminations against women and denial of the rights of the children. This

session finished at 03.20 pm by the vote of thanks by Mr. Mohammed Shareef,

students editor of the college Union.

SESSION FOUR-RIGHTS OF OTHER VULNERABLE GROUPS

The fourth training session

commenced at 03.30 pm

after a very short break for

tea. The session is devoted

for the rights of other

vulnerable groups like the

issues and protection of the

rights of the scheduled casts

and scheduled tribes. The

session also focused on the bonded labour system and related problems. Smt.

Megha A R, Head of the Department of Hindi welcomed the participants and

resource person to the session. She also introduced the resource person to the

participants. The resource person for this session was Adv. Jahageer, a practicing

advocate in the High Court of Kerala with famous Jurist of the Kerala Adv.

Kaleeswarm Raj.

The participants were

found highly interested in

this session although they

have been continuously

sitting three sessions before.

The unique way of

presentation by Adv.

Jahangir made the session

more energetic and active.

He started the session by

some relaxing exercises and wanted the participants to say about some human

rights violations they have made and they are undergone for. To make this more

insightful, he wanted some selected participants at random to explain their

routine form their morning to reaching their college and back to their home.

Thus after finishing their talk, he reflected the same and here he pointed out the

human rights violation each made and they have undergone for This helped to

create an insight to both their duties, obligations and the awareness of human

rights.

Adv. Jahangir

mentioning some cases he

dealt in the high court of

Kerala explained the various

issues of bonded labour

system, the child labour

issues and the definition of

child labour and the law

against child labour. He also explained the special issues of scheduled castes and

scheduled tribes and he gave more focus on the issues of scheduled tribes in

Attappadi of the state of Kerala mentioning the Scheduled castes and Scheduled

Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act of 1989.The resource person also dealt with

the Forest Rights Act of 2006 mentioning some cases in high court of Kerala

regarding deforestation, Kasturangan Report, the construction issues in the

forest areas and forest land. He stressed the need for strictly following the forest

Rights Acts of 2006 and to make the Act more stringent to prevent the misuse of

the loopholes available in the Act. If we approach the Forest Rights Act and the

protection of our Forest it would like cutting the branch of tree one sitting. We

are digging our own graveyard by highly exploiting our nature, rivers and forest.

He made the eyes of the participants opened by explaining the calamities and

destruction in near future if we continue exploiting our nature as is now. The

participants rated this session with highest scale and they reflected the most

enjoying and fruitful session. We would like appreciate and express our gratitude

to Adv. Jahangir for making the participants more sensitised on human rights

although it was tiresome time. The resource person arranged the session in a

manner that the doubts and questions of the participants combined throughout

his presentation instead of not letting them to the end of the session. The session

closed at 05.00 pm with the vote of thanks by Mr. Subash K, First year

Representative to the college Union.

VALEDICTORY SESSION

This session is intended to share the experiences and feedback of the

participants. The session also utilised for distributing certificated for selected

participants and the rest of the participants were received the certificate from the

registration counter. During the feedback session all most all the participants

who shared their feedback in highly appreciated the last session as the most

interesting. They also expressed gratitude and pleasure in getting an opportunity

sponsored by National Human Rights Commission.

In this session the president

of the college committee, Sri Ali

Mubarak delivered the valedictory

address in short words. He urged

the participants to utilise the

lessons and insights derived from

the training session to grow as an

active human rights defenders. He extended all the support and help to all the

programmes and projects for human rights protection for it is the one among the

established goal of the Amal College to stand for human rights, to empower the

marginalised and to ensure the inclusive development of all session. It is because

of this policy the college management provides special reservation for the

Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in addition to the reservation norms

suggested by the government of Kerala. It also provides special reservation for

the orphans and destitute for admission to various courses in the college. He

expressed his gratitude to the

National Human Rights

Commission for grating sponsorship

for conducting a training on Human

Rights in a place where a lot of

marginalised and backward people

living in.

The session concluded with the formal vote of thanks by N Shihabudheen,

coordinator of the training programme. He expressed his sincere gratitude to the

training division of the National

Human Rights Commission for

accepting the proposal sent for

sponsorship. The encouragement

and support by the principal was

also thriving force in making the

programme more successful. He

appreciated the participants who reached at the early in morning so as to make it

possible to start the inaugural session at 09.15 am, as requested by the chief

guest. He also expressed his gratitude to his colleagues and students in the

Department of Economics, and other departments for making the training

programme a fruitful academic exercise. The training session dispersed with the

National anthem by 05.20 pm

The Training Programme in news

The organisors had intimated all the press persons to report the training

programme. The new was published in today’s programme in the local pages of

almost all the Malayalam dailies. The event is also reported in the local T V

Channels. The organisors also reported the entire programme to the press

persons and they had published the same. Some of the important new papers

reported the programme was Malayala Manaorama Daily, Madhyamam Daily,

Kerala Kaumudhi, Chandrika Daily and Suprabhatham. The inaugural session is

also reported by the local T V channels in the area.

Concluding Remarks

The one Day Basic Training Programme on Human rights sponsored by

the National Human Rights Commission and organised by the Department of

Economics was a fruitful academic exercise. It helped in making the participants

aware of the Human Rights, its importance and the avenues of Human Rights

Protection. As a result of the programme the college decided to form a human

rights forum to have a sustained platform to spread the values of human rights

and their protection. The module prepared by the training division of the

National Human Rights Commission is highly useful in designing the training

programme without losing the crux of the Human Rights Training. We are very

optimistic to suggest that, it would more achieving if the Human Rights

Commission would provide training camps in vacations for the college students.

Thus human Rights Commission can create National Human Rights Corpse, a

volunteer group to spread the Human Rights Education all over the country.

Wishing all the best and support to the activities of National Human Rights

commission we submit the Report of One Day Basic Training Programme on

Human Rights to the Training Division, National Human Rights Commission.