NHRC's Winter Internship Programme commences
New Delhi, 17th December, 2009
NHRC's one month long winter internship programme on human rights was inaugurated by Mr. A.K. Jain, Secretary General of the Commission in New Delhi today. On the occasion, he said that human rights essentially rekflect the value system of a society. He said that human rights have always been either in practice or in debates in all the societies and civilization even before the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 after the World War II. Mr. Jain expressed hope that the interns will make the best use of their time during the programme and evolve themselves as ambassadors for the promotion and protection of human rights.
This is the 10th programme and will conclude on the 15th January, 2010. The aim of the internship programme is to sensitise the young students about the various aspects of human rights.
60 students from twenty states in the country have been selected to attend this programme. The interns include six girls and twenty four boys. These also include, for the first time, three students from foreign countries, currently studying in Indian Universities. One among them is from Indonesia and two are from Afghanistan. The interns mainly comprise post-graduate level students of law, political science, social work, criminology and human rights.
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NHRC's one month long winter internship programme on human rights was inaugurated by Mr. A.K. Jain, Secretary General of the Commission in New Delhi today. On the occasion, he said that human rights essentially rekflect the value system of a society. He said that human rights have always been either in practice or in debates in all the societies and civilization even before the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 after the World War II. Mr. Jain expressed hope that the interns will make the best use of their time during the programme and evolve themselves as ambassadors for the promotion and protection of human rights.
This is the 10th programme and will conclude on the 15th January, 2010. The aim of the internship programme is to sensitise the young students about the various aspects of human rights.
60 students from twenty states in the country have been selected to attend this programme. The interns include six girls and twenty four boys. These also include, for the first time, three students from foreign countries, currently studying in Indian Universities. One among them is from Indonesia and two are from Afghanistan. The interns mainly comprise post-graduate level students of law, political science, social work, criminology and human rights.
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