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HRERLIC-Nepal Networks |
A Brief
Introduction of HRERLIC-Nepal
Background:
 National Committee of Human
Rights Education Radio Listeners’ Club (HRERLIC) Nepal is a youth
focused human rights organisation aiming
at youth development and awareness for the protection, promotion and
application of human rights. The conceptual idea of the
organisation goes back to 1998 when a
group of young volunteers working with INSEC (Informal Sector
Service Centre) got involved with the
radio listeners club and came the idea of educating the people by
radio the then only means of communication reaching out the general
public due to the restraints pond by the geographical and socio
cultural reasons of accessibility.
The major stress of the radio
programme has been on the involvement of
people at the grass root level, by means of providing information
and then getting feedback from the general man people. The radio
programme was great appreciated by the
people, which led to formation of local radio listeners’ groups in
different districts and local comities. This appreciation gave rise
to the need for very coherent networking among the varied groups
than the formation of human rights organisation
with a well defined structure from top to bottom (grass root level)
with responsibility going hand n hand with accountability and legal
registration of the organisation.
The potential strength of awareness
and education was realised with the desire
of the youth, women and children to break the schedules of living an
apprised life. Now the organisation boasts of more the 75,00 of
young members and around 650 HRE radio listeners’ club have
formulated with the initiative of the youth with desires.
Vision
We the members of this organisation
imagine of society where……………
1. Every
citizen is free in an unconditional unsound and rational way.
2.
Every citizen enjoys
the rights to him or her by inherent
of being born as human being.
3.
Every one is able to
preserve their identity and of their colour
status and religion.
4. Every
citizen is not only aware of his rights, duties and
responsibilities but also tales the initiative of other aware
of their rights and means as to how to protect there
rights.
Objectives
The major objectives that the organisation
to looking to fulfill are
1.
To educate people on
human rights in the grassroots.
2.
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.
3.
To strength local
human rights clubs and their leadership capacity and personality
development skill.
4.
Selection and
document of local human rights activities and work for the
upgrading of there personnel skill
5.
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.
Major Concern
Issues:
·
Youth Rights.
·
Development Rights.
·
Peace and Human
Rights.
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.
organisation 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 Rural Level’s 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
revatilied. 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
a.
First national
conference of 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.
b.
Second national
conference of HRERLIC Nepal in 2000 with the participation of 288
youths including 70 girls. 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.
c.
Providing training own
HR issues, rights to development, youth rights, organisational
management, capacity building and leadership to the youth.
d.
Regular publication of
yearly magazine " listener's club " in Nepali version covering
articles and information about current human rights isues and
violations in various districts of Nepal to create awareness and
educate the people.
e.
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.
f.
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).
g.
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.
h.
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).
i.
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.
j.
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).
k.
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.
l.
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.
m.
Support on the
Community conferences and workshops, Street drama demonstration,
library settlement, advocacy and awareness campaigns.
Recent Activities:
·
Recently HRERLIC, Nepal
has been conducted a national level and four regional level
interaction programme under the theme of
the role and responsibility of youth for restoring peace has been
organised. 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.
Regular Activities:
·
Various kinds of training,
interactions, public hearing and workshops in the local community.
·
Wall magazine
publication through its local network.
·
Library establishment.
·
Lobby, advocacy,
pressurising and campaigns for peace,
human rights and youth issues.
·
Creative competitions.
·
Celebration of world
human rights day.
Resources:
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i)
Human Resources: - This
is must integral past in the working of the
organisation and the organisation
has no shortage of it. At percent there are more then 600 local
human rights clubs with more than 7 people as general member in each
club. The latest data shows than more then 8,000 youths have been
directly affiliated in organization. This is quite enough manpower
for grassroots campaign. There are 13 district committees with more
than 13 people involved in each district committee. Like wise 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 500
activists 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 mainstay 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 11 youths by democratic process .The
delegates of national committee represents
The
national committee selects and forms a secretariat to handle the
daily administration 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
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HRERLIC-Nepal Network
: HRERLIC-Nepal has created its own network
for
Youth Initiative
for Human Rights movements in Nepal . HRERLIC-nepal has 13
district committee and more than 750 local clubs.
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NGO
Federation of Nepal : A federation of NGOs working in
different sectors in the various districts of Nepal.
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