During the meeting of the National Council for Human Rights with the Union of Students of Republic Schools
Today, Ambassador Moushira Khattab, President of the National Council for Human Rights, received Dr. Reda Hegazy, Minister of Education and Technical Education, at the headquarters of the National Council for Human Rights to attend the activities of the National Council for Human Rights meeting with the Union of Students of Republic Schools, and to discuss the role of youth in implementing the national strategy for human rights.
At the beginning of the meeting, Dr. Reda Hegazy welcomed the attendees, appreciating the efforts made by Ambassador Moushira Khattab, President of the National Council for Human Rights, and his happiness with the effort made between the two sides in order to achieve fruitful cooperation in implementing the National Human Rights Strategy.
Dr. Al-Wazir stressed that the development of education is an implementation of the state project, pointing to the ministry's efforts to develop curricula on an ongoing basis, and to provide school libraries with books that reinforce belief in human rights, call for the rejection of violence and extremism, and seek to form a different educational environment that does not allow extremism to prevail. way to our educational institutions.
Dr. Al-Wazir indicated that the curricula of the Arabic language, religious education, and national education include what deals with human rights and citizenship, in addition to confronting the phenomenon of bullying, pointing to the issuance of a periodic book instructing the commitment to holding exams for national identity subjects (Arabic language, religious education, and national education) in international schools and public schools. Distinguished, and the instructors of these subjects set exams for the second semester; In order to enhance interest in this material.
The minister also emphasized the ministry's interest in spreading awareness at the level of educational directorates and departments of the nature of people with special needs and the best way to deal with them. And facilitate their daily dealings, participation and integration as an authentic partner in society.
The minister explained that the ministry, in cooperation with the National Council for Human Rights, reviewed the school curricula from a human rights perspective. to purify textbooks from what may contradict these rights; Hoping to raise a generation fully aware of its true values, with the aim of developing curricula as a main tool for establishing human rights values and spreading their culture.
The minister emphasized the keenness to form elected student councils in a competitive context, through which students learn the values of participation, dialogue, discussion, tolerance, and the values of participation and belonging, and to enhance the status of the school because it is the natural place for learning.
The Minister also referred to the cooperation with the Ministry of Culture in promoting the strategy of building the Egyptian man, through the activities and events organized by the Ministry by specialists in all fields of creativity in discovering and refining the skills of talented people in the fields of arts and literature in the stage of adolescence and youth, in a way that helps to create an informed and enlightened generation. .
In her speech, Ambassador Moushira Khattab welcomed the attendees, stressing that human rights is a means to solve intractable problems and is the most important issue in the world, stressing the extent of interest that President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi attaches to this issue, and pointing to the launch of His Excellency the National Strategy for Human Rights.
This meeting comes within the framework of activating this strategy, spreading awareness of human rights, and addressing problems related to human rights.
The Ambassador, President of the National Council for Human Rights, said: "During this meeting, we are pleased to listen to the students present in the Council and follow up on the extent of development in education in the interest of students and the reflection of that development in their favor. Let us learn about practical simulation by listening and discussing students, whether questions or opinions, and asking students' opinions about The trade-off between the existence of classroom curricula for human rights or extra-curricular activities, emphasizing that duty is fully linked to rights, and everyone must be committed to applying rights with duties.
She also praised the Union students present from the participating governorates, describing them as ambassadors for human rights in their governorates, as they represent 25 million students from the strongest and most important segment of the population.
During the meeting, an introductory video was shown on the establishment of the Council, its objectives and activities, and the contribution to the preparation of reports submitted by the state in the field of state rights, and a free discussion with students about the concept of human rights and duties and how to achieve them on the ground in Egyptian society.
This came in the presence of Dr. Iman Hassan, Head of the Central Administration for Student Activities, Ambassador Mahmoud Karem, Vice President of the National Council for Human Rights, Ambassador Fahmy Fayed, Secretary General of the Council, Ambassador Ahmed Ismail, Advisor to the President of the Council, Mr. Ahmed Musa, President of the Student Union, and gentlemen members of the Council and students are members of the Student Union. Republic.
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