HUMAN RIGHTS AWARENESS AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS OF HIMACHAL PRADESH

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.