Independent Mon News Agency (IMNA)
Students and displaced persons learned basic
human rights
Over 20 students and displaced persons
learned one week long basic human rights training course in a Mon refugee
resettlement site, Halockhani, that was organized by
the community education workers in the Thailand-Burma border area.
One week course of basic human rights
training started from August 17 and completed on August 23 and the high school
Mon students from various Township of Mon State and displaced persons from
border communities participated in training.
“The time is too limited and we have no
much resource here. The participants would like to know more”, said by a
training organizer in the site.
He added that the members of Human Rights
Foundation of Monland also acted as trainers or facilitators in the training.
Half of the participants were women and the organizers arranged for ‘gender
balance’ in the training.
The training provides about 30 Articles of
Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Convention of the Rights of the Child;
Human Rights and Gender Issues; and Human Rights and Health Perspectives.
Training organizers or education workers
in the community could organize students from
The organizer said that the young
generation of Mon people must know the concept of ‘human rights’, because many
of them have heard about it, but they did not really
know what it is.
According to a displaced person, she did
not really know about her villagers’ rights, which are daily violated in the
rural community and now she said he could understand more.
The organizers said that after getting
feedback from the participants, they would plan to have another training next
year by coordinating with Human Rights Foundation of Monland.