KALADAN NEWS

Dated- 20th February 2003

ROHINGYA AND RAKHINE YOUTHS JOINTLY COMPLETED A HUMAN RIGHTS WORKSHOP

Chittagong, February 20: Rohingya and Rakhine youths

successfully completed a joint human rights workshop

at Dhaka from 4th to 8th February 2003, according to a

participant of the workshop.

Six youths from Rohingya Youth Development Programme

under the Arakan Education & Welfare Association

(AEWA) and nine youths including two females from

National United Party of Arakan (NUPA), in total 15,

were participated in the workshop and there were two

instructors from the Nationalities’ Youths Development

Programme (NYDP), he further added.

The workshop aimed to develop the economy, to

understand the civil societies and the quality

development of the participants from the angle of

human rights, another participant told Kaladan press.

 At first, participants were being introduced to human

rights and detailed discussions were going on, in the

recognition, protection and promotion of human rights,

he further added.

 There were also rendering the basic concept of human

rights and regulations, history of the development of

human rights, the Universal Declaration of Human

Rights (UDHR), International Convention on Civil &

Political Rights (ICCPR), International Convention on

Economic, Social & Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

Furthermore, the topics on Convention on Elimination

of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW),

role of citizens to promote the human rights,

equality, promotion of collective rights, ethnicity,

nationalities and indigenous rights, rights of women

and gender discriminations and the advocacy programs

and its ways and means in both theoretical and

practical bases were discussed, according to the

participants.

Editor

Kaladan Press Network