June 12- The Textbook Monitoring Group for human rights was launched by the NHRCK, with a ceremony entitled “Tracking Human Rights in Textbooks: The Establishment of a Monitoring Group” on June 13. Some 100 students and teachers from elementary, middle and high schools across the nation will be appointed to monitor textbooks until December of this year.
The Textbook Monitoring Group will screen current textbooks as well as books that are in development and slated to be published between 2009 and 2011. The Textbook Monitoring Group will identify cases where text books evidence a resistance or indifference to human rights, and it will suggest ways to improve the books.
This December, the NHRCK will hold a meeting with the Textbook Monitoring Group to discuss the results. The NHRCK plans to take further actions to promote educational materials friendly to human rights and to create a culture of human rights in the schools. These efforts will include developing a textbook writing standard in collaboration with writers and publishers.
