HUMAN RIGHTS AWARENESS AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS OF HIMACHAL PRADESH

Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies, Online ISSN 2278-8808, SJIF 2018 = 6.371, www.srjis.com PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL, JULY-AUG, 2018, VOL- 6/46 HUMAN RIGHTS AWARENESS AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS OF HIMACHAL PRADESH Balwant Sadrate, Ph. D. T.G.T (Arts); Govt. Model Senior Secondary School (Boys) Lalpani, Shimla Abstract The rights of man have been the concern of all civilizations from time immemorial. The concept of “rights of man” and other fundamental human rights were not unknown to the people of earlier periods. These “rights of man” had a place in almost all the ancient civilizations of the world. The concept of Human Rights was also there perhaps 2500 years back, when a Greek Philosopher Sophocles wrote a drama made „Antigone‟. It is the king of Apes who ordered to prosecute a person by declaring him as a traitor and to throw his dead body in the middle of the city. But the person‟s sister raised voice against it and called for his proper funeral as it was his right. This paper highlights the human rights awareness of senior secondary school students of Himachal Pradesh. Keywords: Human Rights, Senior Secondary, Gender, Neurotic Pattern of Personality, Himachal Pradesh

Scholarly Research Journal's is licensed Based on a work at www.srjis.com Introduction Much of the modern human rights law and the basis of most modern interpretations of human rights can be traced back to relatively recent European history. The Twelve Articles of the Black Forest (1525) are considered to be the first record of human rights in Europe. They were part of the peasants' demands raised towards the Swabian League in the Peasants' War in Germany. The British Bill of Rights ‘An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown’ of 1689 made illegal a range of oppressive governmental actions in the United Kingdom. Two major revolutions occurred during the 18th century, one in the United States (1776) and the other in France (1789), leading to the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen respectively, both of which established certain legal rights. Additionally, the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776 encoded a number of fundamental civil rights and civil freedoms into law. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” United States Declaration of Independence, 1776

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HUMAN RIGHTS AWARENESS AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS OF HIMACHAL PRADESH

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The rights of man have been the concern of all civilizations from time immemorial. The concept of “rights of man” and other fundamental human rights were not unknown to the people of earlier periods. These “rights of man” had a place in almost all the ancient civilizations of the world. The concept of Human Rights was also there perhaps 2500 years back, when a Greek Philosopher Sophocles wrote a drama made „Antigone‟. It is the king of Apes who ordered to prosecute a person by declaring him as a traitor and to throw his dead body in the middle of the city. But the person‟s sister raised voice against it and called for his proper funeral as it was his right. This paper highlights the human rights awareness of senior secondary school students of Himachal Pradesh. Keywords: Human Rights, Senior Secondary, Gender, Neurotic Pattern of Personality, Himachal Pradesh