Human Rights Education Radio Program: INSEC has been running Human Rights Education Program through Radio Nepal (the only national broadcast media) and also Sagarmatha FM. These programmes have wider audience reach and are found effective to address the issues concerning human rights. The programme effectiveness has been reflected in the speedy formation of listeners’ club in jails and the communities. These clubs have been organised  into local and national chapters. They have emerged as active propagator of human rights messages to the community. At present, around 650 Human Rights Radio Listeners Clubs are playing active role at different parts of the country and also in the jails including in the women cells. About 6,000 persons have been organized through such clubs.

Human Rights Education Radio Program

Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) is actively working in areas of Human Rights and Social Justice. Believing Human Rights to be the direct concern of the people, this centre is focusing on making the people aware of Human Right class to the people of the rural areas with the help of its network centers 
Radio communication proves to be an effective medium due to the geographical terms of Nepal. Among all the means of communication, radio is the one that can be transmitted every corners of Nepal. In other words, radio is played in rural areas more than in towns. Keeping these things in mind, INSEC has been broadcasting Human Rights Education Programme (HREP) since 1994 through Radio Nepal.
From 1994 (2051B.S. Magh 7) INSEC along with the participation of other Human Rights Centers started to conduct this radio program through Radio Nepal, a national media. But from 1995(2053 B.S. Kartik 4) INSEC has been conducting this HR education program through Radio Nepal.
Now the Human Rights Education Radio Program has completed 7 years. It has succeeded in corresponding with many listeners. Every week, the best letter selected from the letters received by the listeners is broadcasted in the radio.
HREP is one of the most popular programs of Radio Nepal. According to ' Radio ownership and listening in Nepal: a National study survey conducted by Radio Nepal in 1997 the programs has been cited by 5 percent of regular listeners of Radio Nepal.
The content of the HREP includes HR concepts, evolution, National and International HR Instruments and current and various issues on human rights. It is being aired once a week on Saturday at 8.35 am.

Objective

The main objective of the Radio programs is to build Human Rights awareness among the general mass; to motivate listeners, to share information on human rights with other local people and to build up every listeners as a Human Rights Activists.

Procedure, Methodology
 

- HRE Radio Programs is running every Saturday at 8.35 am on Radio Nepal. The program has to be recorded on Thursday.
- There are 4 persons to broadcast the programs. One is coordinating the radio programs who write script two of them are presentator and another two are on drama. We are also broadcasting 5-8 minutes drama concerning various issues on human rights within 25 minutes
- Radio programs has to be renewed annually with Radio Nepal
The content of the programs is designed in such a way that it is simple, informative and easy to understand for the common people.

Listener's Club

HRE radio programs is not merely the radio programs, rather it is a part of broader HR campaign. The HR programs is disseminating through listener clubs. In the Year 1996 (2053 B.S.) Radio Listeners clubs were formed in 21 districts, which are affiliated with INSEC. These Radio Listeners club were distributed a radio. But afterwards, as the process of distributing the radios was not so effective, we stopped that system. At first, these Listeners Clubs were called Radio Listeners Club affiliated to INSEC. But now these as well as other Listeners Clubs are known as INSEC Campaign related Independent Listeners Clubs. Besides this, with an intention to form listeners clubs in the prisons, the center has formed listeners club in 54 prisons and distributed 50 radios. But now, we stopped to form listeners clubs and distribute radio in the jail.
We have around 650 listeners' clubs. These listeners' clubs are organizing district conferences, Quiz contests, Poetry competitions, debate competitions on different issues on human rights, legal literacy training, women empowerment programs from time to time and INSEC Radio Section is also participating in their programs .In this programs INSEC is providing them only INSEC publications and certificates to listeners clubs.

Focus Group

The focus groups of this program are the grassroots people at large and specially the high school students and students from initial level of college education. Radio is an effective means of communication especially in mountainous and hilly country like ours where most of the villages have no access to roads. As mass illiteracy is the common feature among the people of Nepal, radio broadcasting can play an important role in improving development messages and raising awareness. The program is affected over 75 districts.

Activities

- published " Hawaii Taranga"(An aerogram publication)
- " Listener's club (Mukhpatra of Listener clubs)" is publishing yearly (listener's activities is included in this magazine)
- published a song cassettes concerning on 30 articles of HR Declaration 1948
- Listener's conference is organizing in every 3 years by INSEC. Two conferences had already held.
- HR song competition was held in 1999 and has released an HR songs album.
- Monitoring the listener's club time to time.
- Published Sticker, Postcards, brochure vivid occasions
- Making other radio programs concerning on human rights, in parternership with other human rights organization. like National Human Rights Commission and Gefont.
- INSEC has conducted a listener's club survey in 6 districts in agreement with Media Point
- time to time conducting evaluation about this programs ourselves through questionnaire.
- Economically supporting to National Committee of Human Rights Education Listeners Clubs to organize trainings, meetings, interaction programs, to publish
"Listener's Magazine" and so on.

First National Conference of Human Rights Education Radio listeners' clubs was held in 2055 in Narayanghad
 
First National Conference of Human Rights Education Radio Listeners' Clubs conference was held in 2055 in Narayanghad of Chitwan district, Midregion of Nepal. And that was the First listener's conference of Nepalese history too. Mr. Mukunda Prasad Archery, former executive director of Radio Nepal inaugurated the conference. In that two days conference were discussed and giving training on different issues on Human Rights, group discussion on Human Rights listener's club working area, sharing information and experience etc. First listener's conference also forms an 11 member committee. During this period, committee has made a Listener's Club Act which has to pass from Second Conference, published a Magazine "Shrota Club" and communicating with whole listeners' clubs throughout the country by telephone, fax, mail etc. The first listeners club conference passed the planned to organize listener's conference in every two years . But lack of recourses we could not organizing the conference. First Radio listener's conference was successful. There were more than two hundred five participants participated in.

The second Listeners' clubs conference

Objective
The main objective of this conference is to gather whole human rights education listeners club's member in one place and share their experience themselves.
To give training various issues on HR and also the conference objective was how can we involve them in INSEC's HR campaign, which helps us to disseminate HR issues in grass roots.
Second National Conference of Human Rights Education Radio Listener's clubs was held in 2057 in Pokhara of Kaski district. Minister of information and Communication Mr. Jays Prakash Prasad Gupta was inaugurated the second listeners' conference.
the conference elected a New  National Committee of Listeners Clubs and passed the Act.