HRCSL to conduct Youth Camp
The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) is organising a Youth Camp to mark the 70th Anniversary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights at which youth from 25 districts will be brought together. During the camp, participants will take part in an experiential learning process and acquire competences in the fields of intercultural learning and dialogue within a human rights framework.
Interested parties aged between 18 and 25 years can collect the Application from HRCSL website (www.hrcsl.lk) or Divisional Secretariat or HRCSL Regional Offices.
The Camp’s main objectives are to develop awareness and basic competencies (knowledge, skills, and attitudes, and also appreciation of human rights value base that respects equality of freedom of choice, freedom of speech, association and assembly, the right to a decent life, respecting other’s rights) of participants in human rights, diversity and pluralism, intercultural learning and dialogue, including a critical understanding of personal and collective identities and their role in different human rights situations.
To enable participants to share personal experiences of human rights issues and violence and develop strategies in a positive and safe atmosphere of living and learning together; To motivate and support participants in their role as multipliers and peer leaders to stand for human rights with the youth by encouraging them to implement follow-up initiatives; To promote and share existing youth work practices and experiences of young people working on dialogue and human rights protection in their home communities; To strengthen the role of the HRCSL, in particular through the youth for the protection and promotion of human rights, in its efforts towards strengthening youth work in the field of human rights, social cohesion and intercultural dialogue.
Application will be received on or before 31st August 2018 either submitted to regional office or Education and Special Programmes Division, Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, No 14, R. A De Mel Mawatha, Colombo 4 or send via email: youthcamp.hrcsl@gmail.com