April 24, 2014 -- To implement the relevant provisions about “at least five new national human rights education and training bases will be opened by 2015” in The National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2012-2015), the Review Meeting of the second batch of national human rights education and training bases held in Beijing on March 17th. The relevant departments responsible person, scholars from China Society for Human Rights Studies, expert review panel as well as the representatives from 10 candidate universities, including Peking University, Fudan University, East China University of Political and Law, Jilin University, Sichuan University, Shandong University, Wuhan University, Northwest University of Politics and Law, Southwest University of Political Science and Law and Renmin University of China attended the meeting. The representatives from universities introduced the mechanism of the existing configuration, specialized characteristic, management and operation mechanism, funding sources of the human rights study institutions, and answered questions of the experts.
Mr. Luo Haicai, the president of China Society for Human Rights Studies, pointed out that the review and establishment of the bases is to promote the comprehensive, balanced and orderly development of the human rights study institutions throughout the country. He stressed that the overall planning and layout of the bases should be strengthened while maintaining its own characteristics.
The main tasks of the bases includes the promotion of the human rights education of university and theoretical research, development of the human rights education of primary and secondary school and the research experimentation of methods, compiling teaching material, organizing teacher training and all kinds of social training, providing consultation for the society, especially providing the consulting report regularly to the relevant departments of the state, and carrying out international exchanges and cooperation in the field of human rights.
On October 13, 2011, the Ministry of Education approved to establish the first batch of national human rights education and training bases in Nankai University, China University of Political Science and Law and Guangzhou University.
