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National committee HRERLIC-Nepal
Background
National Committee of Human Rights Education Radio Listeners’ Club (HRERLIC) Nepal is a youth leads and youth focused human rights organization, is a national network of 1 thousand 3 hundred and 93 local human rights clubs and 32 District committees as well. It was formally established in 2057. It is working joining hands with 15,000 youth Human Rights Defender all over the country.
HRERLIC - Nepal is a non-profit and non political youth led organization. It is a platform for the youth to help them develop themselves and make necessary positive changes in their societies and communities. The conceptual idea of the organisation goes back to 1998 when young people living in grassroots level voluntarily organized themselves and formed the radio listeners club. In 1998 with the participation of 200 youths of 3 hundred clubs formally formed the organization and got a concrete shape.
Vision
HRERLIC-Nepal envisions society as a abounding civilized through marvellous and prosperous Human Rights culture where respect, cooperation, freedom and peace are prevailed.
Objectives
The major objectives that the organisation looking to fulfil are:
- To educate people on human rights in the grassroots.
- To utilities and mobilisation of the potential power of youth in the field of human rights to increase them to action against human rights violations.
- To strength local human rights clubs and their leadership capacity and personality development skill.
- Selection and document of local human rights activities and work for the upgrading of there personnel skill
- Network building among different local, regional, national and international like-minded organisations as to build up networking and solidarity of varied human rights and youth issues in different level.
- To organize capacity building programs, trainings and workshops to strengthen the network and its clubs
Major Concern Issues
- Democracy
- Peace and Human Rights
- Youth
- Development Rights
- Conflict
Target Group
The major groups targeted by the programme builders are definitely the general public but more specific important and case is given to the youth development with the realistic that they are the future citizens of the country. Gravity for educating the women, children and minorities is also realised as they are and are considered as deprived group from national mainstream of development process.
Methodology
HRERLIC based its actions plan in such a way that in spite of the beginning analytically it is informative supports and easy to understand for the common project with own basis formal education. Organization mainly deals with subjects related to rights them. Rights Based Approach (RBA) i.e. the current HR affairs specifically in the rural area and thus many people know of it as "Youth Initiative for Human Rights Movement in Nepal”. Here the implies is grounded on the principle of “planning for participatory programme " (PPP) where in the programme contents are planned according to the needs of the local community and the target groups are given the freedoms to participate in it the way that suits them giving equal opportunity all the members of groups. At the end of programme the targets groups themselves becomes aware of the problems and the way in which to take action. Thus eliminating the need for proper legal and cultural education thus the moderator of the programme just acts as a facilitator so as to reach down to the lowest level of approach.
Consequently the use of culture variety to project makes it easier for the general purpose and revitalized. In the programme the down- to- earth approach of the programme has to wide spread as a mean for the success of the organisation.
Major Activities
- First national conference was held in Narayangadh, Chitwan. Human rights education radio listeners’ club in 1998 with the participation of 200 youths where the organisation have got a concrete shape, formed a national body, discussed on human rights issues and formulate policies and programmes.
- Second and third national conference of HRERLIC Nepal in 2000 and 2003 with the participation of 300 youths including 123 girls, which was held in Pokhara, Kaski. The conference declared a manifesto under the theme of youth initiative of rural level human rights movement in Nepal. They also discussed on to get a comprehensive picture of the situation in Nepal.
- Fourth national conference and youth camp, a campaign for Constitutional Assembly, Democracy, Culture of Peace and Non-Violence, which was held in Lalitpur on 2–3 November 2006. The conference brought 350 youth delegates from 68 district of Nepal and some international delegates as an observer. The international delegates have an opportunity for cultural exposure as well as learned the current human rights situation of Nepal. This also provided them an opportunity for networking and collaboration with the Nepalese youths.
- On March, 2003, HRERLIC-Nepal conducted a national level and four regional level interaction programmes under the theme of the “Role and Responsibility of Youth for Restoring Peace”. The major aim of this programme is to highlight the role of youth during peace process and make it as a focal point of conflicting parties during the peace dialogue and for peace building activities.
- Providing training on HR issues, rights to development, youth rights, organizational management, capacity building and leadership to the youth.
- Regular publication of yearly magazine " listener's club " in Nepali version covering articles and information about current human rights issues and violations in various districts of Nepal to create awareness and educate the people.
- Formulation of Human Rights network in the regional and district level with a view to enhance the organisational coverage and potential youth led and youth centred human rights organisation in Nepal.
- National Level feature writing workshop for the members of National committee and HRE clubs to enhance the knowledge of creative writing and to develop the skill of journalism. Total 25 participants were involved and Mr. Vinaya Kasajoo worked as a resource person for a weeklong training. The fund was supported by INSEC (September 2001).
- Celebration of fifth anniversary and Listener clubs award - HRERLIC has celebrated its fifth anniversary on 12th June 2002. On the same day it also awarded the best HRE radio listener clubs showing their best performance for the protection and promotion of human rights in the grassroots. Total 17 clubs from around the country were awarded representing three from each development region.
- Fund raising campaign- this year HRERLIC initiated fund raising campaign mobilizing local resources. In the first phase it distributed T-shirts, logo and motto of the organization printed on. The T-shirts are sold to the members of local clubs and other interested. Fund has been collected through this campaign and soon HRERLIC is going to launch its own web site to disseminate the organizational information around the world. Seed money for the printed T-shirts was provided by INSEC that is to be refunded after selling the T-shirts. National Committee members are paying Rs 500/- every year. And this organization also takes Rs100/- ($1.3) for affiliation fee and Rs 50/- ($0.70) for Identity card to support its fund. (Started from April 2001).
- Training- National committee also organized some local and district level training during the year 2001 and 2002. Total five district level training and nearly two dozen local level training were launched on behalf of this organisation. Mostly the subject matters of training were historical perspectives of human rights, child rights, women’s rights, National and international human rights instruments, role of human rights defenders, leadership and so on. National committee members work as trainers in all these activities. Nearly 2,000 people attended our awareness classes and most of the participants were youths, children and women.
- Rural communication training- On behalf of this organisation, this training was organised in Dhanusha District including the participants from five districts. Total 30 people attended this training for five days. This training developed the participants’ skills about feature writing, rules of journalism, wall magazine publication and interviewing techniques (February 2002).
- Wall magazine publication- various human rights education radio listener clubs are publishing wall magazine to share the local information where the printed educational materials are not easily accessible to the community people. Another advantage of this magazine is that the people can get medium to express their views and experiences against social evils and better ways for their solutions. It has been developed as a direct means of communication among the community people. Energetic youths and creative school children are involved with this campaign and in some clubs we have supported educational materials to publish it. Nearly 45 clubs are publishing such magazine regularly.
- Monitoring the local human rights listeners club, documentation and dissemination of the activities done by the member activities and supporting them physical materials to organise their campaigns in the grassroots.
- Support on the Community conferences and workshops, Street drama demonstration, library settlement, advocacy and awareness campaigns.
- Monitoring and observation of April movement throughout the country.
- Conducted a national level Human Rights Conference and Youth Camp program under the theme of A campaign for Culture of Peace and Non-Violence! A campaign for Culture of Peace and Non-Violence, which was healed in Pokhara on 15 – 16 March 2004. Daman Nath Dhungana, Senior Human Rights Leader and Former speaker of House of Representatives was inaugurated this conference among 450 delegates and observers. This Programme was jointly organised by HRERLIC-Nepal and INSEC. The conference was brought together 450 youth delegates from 70 district of Nepal and some international delegates as an observed. The conference was focused on Human Rights, Institutional Democracy, Peace building, Media, Social Justice and Youth issues.
- Monitoring and observation CA election 2008. On monitoring and observation 539 youths were mobilized in 35 districts of the country and published the CA Observation report.
- The one-year campaign that started from Kohalpur of Banke in 25 November 2006 ended after reaching Taplejung in 2007. During this one year, 65 awareness programmes were conducted across the country. Gaun chautari (village discuss), interactions, rallies, wall paintings, newspaper publishing, trainings, vote surveying were among the programmes that were conducted. Except these, trainings on loktantra, CA election system, and federal system were also given to students of secondary schools and +2 students under the school awareness programme. Programmes focusing on illiterates, women, dalits and people from backward community were conducted as they were planned.
Recent Activities: HRERLIC Nepal has started one-year long YOUTH CHAUTARI FOR NEW CONSTITUTION CAMPAIGN and started from 13 August 2008. The campaign had been inaugurated in Lalitpur. On the occasion 30 leaders were announced as YOUTH AMBASSADOR and they will raise the youth issues nationwide.
Regular Activities:
- Various kinds of training, interactions, conferences, public hearing and workshops in the local community.
- Wall magazine publication through its local network.
- Library establishment.
- Observing human rights violations event
- Lobby, advocacy, pressurising and campaigns for peace, human rights and youth issues.
- Creative competitions.
- Celebration of world human rights day.
Resources: -
- Human Resources: - This is must integral part in the working of the organisation and the organisation has no shortage of it. At percent there are more then 1393 local human rights clubs with more than 7 people as general member in each club. The latest data shows that more then 15,000 youths have been directly affiliated in organization. This is quite enough manpower for grassroots campaign. There are 32 district committees with more than 13 people involved in each district committee. Likewise in the central level there are 13 members and five advisors. National /central committee is the apex body of all the clubs. Similarly HRERLIC-Nepal has distributed identification card for nearly 1500 youth human rights defenders as their best recognition and working responsibility on human rights actions. The secretariat of national committee is responsible for academic activities where as it’s regional members are responsible for grassroots campaigns and coordination.
Financial resources
At present affiliation fee and membership fee along with the income generated from marketing of some local resources are the foundation of our resources .The other major expenditures of the administrative material and physical are provides by INSEC
Organisational Structure
National conference is the supreme power at the top of the organisation and it selects a national executive body of 13 youths through democratic process .The national committee selects and forms a secretariat to handle the daily administrative activities. National president leads the secretarial board. It is also responsible for policymaking, fundraising, managerial works and for national and international relationships.
The regional members are endowed with the responsibilities of reporting, monitoring and evaluating the activities of their own local region. District committee and local clubs are the complementing bodies of national policies.
Advisory Board
The advisory board has been nominated by the central committee with comprising of notates and educated people from different background helping out with export suggestions and comments from the very beginning.
Networking
It is just the preliminary stages of the formulation of the organisation. There has been a dearth of networking at the national as well as in international level. As of now only INSEC is the major supporters and contributors to our organisation but at the district and local level we have our own networking system trust of our radio listeners’ club .etc
Thus we would also like to make an appeal to all the governmental, inter- governmental, non-governmental organization and international agencies for this extend support in emanate possible for the betterment Nepalese youth the lights for the times ahead.
National Networks
- HRERLIC-Nepal Network: HRERLIC-Nepal has created its own network for Youth Initiative for Human Rights movements in Nepal. HRERLIC-Nepal has 15 district committee and more than 950 local clubs.
- NGO Federation of Nepal: A federation of NGOs working in different sectors in the various districts of Nepal
- AYON: An association of different youth NGOs working in different sectors.
- NAINN: An NGO working in different district of the country on appreciative Inquiry.
- INSEC: Human rights organization working 75 district of the country.
- HRTMCC: 45 National Human rights Organizations umbrella Network.
International Partners
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For More Information and contact
HRERLIC, Nepal
P.O. Box- 4906, Kathmandu, Nepal
Phone: 977-01-4278770, Fax: 977-01-
Email- hrerlicnepal@gmail.com
Web-site- www.humanrights.org.np
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