1. Strengthening human rights content in secondary education curriculum, Grade 6 – 9
(life competencies and citizenship education subject) and Grades 10 -11 (civic
education) and any other relevant subjects;
2. Prepare an instructional package to be used in in-service training of teachers to
enhance capacity of teachers, teaching the above subjects.
The activities detailed herewith will be carried out to achieve the above objective;
a. Study the existing/proposed curriculum in Citizenship Education (CE) for grades 6-9
with a view to ascertain the following;
b. To identify the clauses in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) that
have been included and evaluate whether they are adequately covered;
c. To identify entry points to incorporate human rights which are appropriate for each of
the different grades;
d. Identify from the UDHR rights that can be best covered in other subjects; Eg. Article
25 (health)., could be covered in health education. Other rights that can be covered in
first language (Sinhala & Tamil) in order to prevent overloading of CE.
e. Identify the content which can be incorporated in the Civics Education subject at
grades 10 and 11.
HRCSL work with SLAAED to achieve above objectives and the project was in progress
during the year 2014.
2.4
Special discussion on workers’ rights and review the applicability of International
Labour Rights Instruments (9th May 2014)
The objective of the discussion was to enhance the labour standards of the country
according to the Intentional labour rights instruments. Government officials, civil society
representatives, representatives from Intentional Non-Governmental Organisations and
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