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Organised by

International Association for Religious Freedom

(IARF) - London

Human Rights Education & Training Program

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Program Profile

Venue : Danielson Degree College, Chhindwara, M.P, India

Date : 28-29 Jan 2013

Facilitator : Bro. Albert Xaviour

Participants : 40 Degree Students from 9 different colleges

Age Group : 18-24

Local Supporters : Danielson Degree College

Organizer : Dr. Brown, Immanuel Manish Daniel (who participated Madurai YA conference) Shashank Thakur &

Sanjeev Swami (who participated Kolkata YA Conference)

Where was the Program held?

Chhindwara, M.P, India

Chhindwara district was formed on 1st November 1956. It is located on the South-West region of

'Satpura Range of Mountains'. This District ranks 1st in area (11,815 Sq. Km.) in Madhya Pradesh

State and occupies 3.85% of the area of the state. There are 1984 villages in the district, out of which

1903 villages are habituated. Chhindwara District has majority of tribal population. The tribal

communities include Gond, Pardhan, Bharia, Korku. Hindi, Marathi , Gondi, Urdu, Korku, Musai,

Parvari etc. languages dialects are in use in the district. Majority of the tribals speak in Gondi and

Hindi mixed with Marathi. Among the cultural functions festivals in the district Pola, Bhujalia,

Meghnath, Akhadi, Harijyoti etc. are famous ones. 'Gotmat Mela' of Pandhurna is unique and world

renowned fair. On Shivrathri day 'Mahadev Mela' will be celebrated each year on "Choudagadh".

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Danielson Degree College

Danielson College was established in 1970. It offers a few important, latest undergraduate and postgraduate courses in science, arts and commerce

for the talented student who could not afford expensive and quality education. The institute has highly qualified teachers appointed on full time

basis. Their positive attitude and friendly approach will help students to learn fast and in easier methods. The college is affiliated to Doctor

Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya was established in 1946 by the life time savings of Dr. Harisingh Gour. The University is the 18th University of

India as well as the oldest and the biggest university of Madhya Pradesh. The University is also known as University of Sagar.

Who are the Participants?

The participants are from nine different institutions (Danielson Degree College, FDDI College, LNCT College,

RABL Nursing College, Sony College of Management, Indira Priyadarshini College, P.G. College, SVS College, and

NIIT College) and also they are from four different religions.

Organisers

This HRE&T program was

organised by the Young

Adults Immanuel Manish

Daniel, Shashank Thakur

and Sanjeev Swami (who

participated in Kolkata and

Madurai YA Conference)

with the support of Dr.

Brown the former principal

of Danielson College and

IARF- Chhindwara branch

member.

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The Program Outline

PowerPoint presentation was used throughout the 2-day program, to allow participants a better grasp of HR concepts, UN literature, etc.

The first day program includes…

Inaugural Celebration (see:- Video ),

Introduction about IARF, RFYN, UN

Three Documentaries, & discussion on UDHR (See:- Video / )

Ice-breaking sessions (See :- Video ).

The second day program contains the sharing of Current Human Rights issues and stories, practicing UDHR to bring peace and harmony among the

religions and in the society (See:- Video ) and also the future plan and selection of members to support existing HRE&T young adult team in

Madhya Pradesh.

Issues Discussed in Detail

1. Social Security: though we celebrated 60 years for UDHR, but still the society is facing number of human rights abuses. There is no social

security for a common person. The participants discussed two issues regarding social security. 1). Many young adults were arrested by the

police in the name of enquiry. They also some time torture them without any reasons. The consequences met by the young adults are

countless. 2). Thousands of young adults had delight to go for Indian army, but now non one is ready to go for, because of social security.

Recently some of the Indian soldiers were killed in a very crucially by the neighbouring country.

2. Inter-Caste Marriage: The issue about inter-caste marriage was shared by Suchita Mishra, who experiences her neighbouring man who

married a girl from other caste. These two young married couple was affected by the local community including their own family people.

They were not given house for rent and people were talking negative about them. The particular family was criticized very badly and it made

them to move to other place to find better resident to have better life without any discrimination. Even in this developed society the young

adults are not having the freedom to marry to whom they like. (See:- Video )

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Challenges adopted by the Organizers

By understanding the local financial situation, the local HRE & T organisers have taken the effort to get the local sponsors for this program. The

college has also agreed to sponsor one lunch for the participants and also some local organization has sponsored for stationeries. The organisers

visited 12 institutions in Chhindwara district and received the registration forms from nine institutions. They also had interview with all the

participants regarding their interest to participate this training program.

Feedback

The feedback sheet was given to the participants and evaluation for the two days HRE &T program took place. The Feedback from of few

participants is given here…

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What decision taken for Future?

Our local young adults are doing many activities with Mrs. Brown, who is doing Human Rights advocacy with the state government. She also is

ready to support our young adults to go to human rights victim rural communities to create awareness among the treble communities. With the full

support of the Gujarat Young Adult HRE&T team, the participants came forward to visit many tribal communities to introduce these HRE&T

programs.

Existing HRE&T Team at Chhindwara, M.P

Dr. S.A. Brown - Program coordinator

Immanuel Manish Daniel - Team Leader

Shashank Thakur - Secretary

Sanjeev Swami - Treasurer

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New Members

Shalem Peter - Member Suchita Mishra - Member Supriya Gupta - Member Vaibhav Sanodya - Member

Divya Rathi - Member Sourabh N. Prasad - Member

Varuna Kabra - Member Salman Khan - Member

HRE& T program in the News Papers

Interviews with the Participants

1. Supriya Gupta – Video

2. Vaibhav Sanodya - Video

3. Suchita Mishra - Video

4. Divya Rathi - Video

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Event Costs

Group Photo

Thanks and appreciation to Mr. Immanuel Manish Daniel and Team for

taking trouble to organise the HRE&T program and also to the

Management of Danielson Degree College and Dr. Brown for their

spontaneous support and contribution for the success of this program.

Bro. Albert Xaviour