Human Rights Education: A Development Strategy for the Rights of Tea Garden Workers of Assam

Abstract

Human rights are rights availed to all human beings. Its application in human life enables all individuals to shape and determine their own lives in liberty, equality and respect for human dignity. Human rights encompass civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, as well as the collective rights of peoples. We know that the tea industry of Assam is considered as one of the country’s largest industry with intensive labour force. But these labourers under the industry enjoys  undermine  labour rights and many of the human issues confronting the  tea garden  workers relate directly to working conditions, widespread poverty, malnutrition, human trafficking and starvation, discrimination, employment, wages,h ealth  and safety. And thus deprive workers from basic needs and underscoring the desire for a better life.Human Rights Education for all, is only the way for promotion and propagation of Human Rights. This will, help to evolve effective solutions to wipe out the plight  of disadvantage groups whose rights are adversely affected, and who do not have adequate knowledge and awareness for the realization of their legally guaranteed rights.So, the focus of the paper is on understanding human right violations associated with tea garden worker population and find out the possible mechanism that can contribute to long term and sustainable development and  remedy of human rights through Human Right Education.