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 Human Rights Education on Right to Food and Human Rights Education - Posted By: Santigie Bayo Dumbuya
Section of participants after five day training of trainers
The definition of food security now most commonly used, that of the 1996 World Food Summit, bears considerable resemblance to the definition of the right to food. Yet a right-to-food based approach to food security is distinct from other approaches to reducing hunger and malnutrition and complements food security considerations with dignity, rights acknowledgment, transparency, accountability, and empowerment concerns.
It is based on commitment to the value of human dignity and makes the individual an agent of change in a way that enables him or her to hold governments accountable and to seek redress for violations of his or her rights. A right-to-food approach is not based on vague and replaceable policy goals subject to periodic redefinition, but on existing, comparatively specific and continuously becoming more precise obligations undertaken by governments. Therefore, the right to food cannot only be regarded as a means to achieve food security, but must be seen as a wider, more encompassing, and distinct objective in itself. Realizing the right to food should, furthermore, be part and parcel of rights-based approaches to development that aim to implement all human rights obligations which States have committed themselves to under human rights law.
Conscience International has facilitated the right to food training in Kabala, Portloko, Kambia and Makeni in the Northern part of Sierra Leone.
The objectives of this training was to create the awareness amongst farmers, Community based organizations and market women on the practical realization on the right to food as been reaffirmed during the 1996 world summit facilitated by FAO, “every person have the fundamental right to be free from hunger and have access to safe and nutritious food” as enshrined in the social and economic rights.
Conscience International facilitated several focus group discussions, workshops and symposiums.
Section of students of the Leumas Vocational Centre after the session on human right education.
Human Rights Education (HRE) is the key to securing human rights in Sierra Leone, and indeed the world.
The “Right to Education” encompasses many of the principles outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and Convention on the Rights of the Child, and as a starting point argues for compulsory consensus that education in and for human rights is essential and can contribute to both the reduction of human rights violations and building of free, just and peaceful societies. Human Rights Education is also increasingly recognized as an effective strategy to prevent human rights abuses. HRE embraces this right and advocates for human rights approach in all learning, so that human rights values and principles can be applied in our everyday lives. Specifically on education the Preamble states:
….The General Assembly proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights….. 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…..
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights of the African Union considers that Human Rights Education is itself a human right within the framework of the fulfilment of the right to education, which is one of the priorities of the Millennium Declaration. Articles 17 (1) of the African Charter similarly state: “that every individual shall have rights to education”.
Conscience International conducted a human right education session for the students of the Leumas vocational Training Centre on the rights for women.
What can you do for us and with us?
Rights Education (HRE) is a long-term process. We are asking partners to assist us in building the competence of Conscience International to conduct effective HRE.
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