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Teaching students about human rights

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Giving college students of the Capital a lesson or two about human rights, Amnesty International, India, has as a prelude to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights next year started a unique campaign in the city called the “Kabuliwallah Express”.

“A celebration of this kind has been organised for the first time in the Capital where we are reaching out to the youth to tell them about human rights. It is in prelude to the International Week of Justice Festival being organised in January 2008 to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The festival has as its main theme ‘voices of dignity’. The caravan activities are a curtain raiser to the festival. Through art, education and entertainment, the caravan and festival will take up issues of right to life with dignity,” said Sana Das of Amnesty International, India.

From September to December, the International Week of Justice Caravan will visit campuses and key public sites in Delhi carrying ‘Kahani Kabuliwalleh Ki’, that comprises theatre, exhibition, films, talks, signature campaigns, competitions on music, theatre, screenwriting, short film, photography, painting, posters and caricatures and an educational module on media and justice.

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