Human Rights Worker

[raj_karega_khalsa]

Sangat Jee, I'm in High School right now and have been thinking about what I wanna do when I'm done school. I've pretty much decided that I want to become a Human Rights worker, and do something similar to what Shaheed Bhai Jaswant Singh Jee Khalra did. The problem is that I'm not sure where to go to school for that or what courses I need to take or anything. I've emailed Amnesty International and Ensaaf several times asking them, but neither have responded. Any help would be very appreciated

[anjaan]

Dear veer it’s great to hear that you wish to become a human rights worker

It’s never too early to start, why not join AI? Become a local member; if you do not have a local group look into setting one up yourself, it can be a school/college society or a local neighbourhood project even

Also look into becoming a young ambassador for AI or any other human rights organisation

University wise you can look into legal subjects, history or politics maybe, or perhaps even cominbe? Over here (uk) you can specialise in certain areas such as human rights if you’re doing a law degree for example you can take specific modules in human rights or after your law degree you can go on to do LLM (masters in law) and specialise in JUST human rights, so may be worth getting a few college/uni prospectuses and checking out the different courses.

but i think school is not the be all and end all of it, volunteer work will open many doors for you and give you a better idea of what it all involves.

Check out the Canadian AI website or of any other human rights organisation, they may have projects ongoing which you can get involved with and they’re always on the look out for volunteers

Also try mailing United Sikhs, it’s worth a shot!

All the best

And sincere apologies if the above is of no use!!

[curious_man]

veer ji... since u r in canada... this might help :

http://www.top-law-schools.com/canadian-la...l-rankings.html

and yeah.. gud luck!!

[2desi]

Shaheed Bhai Jaswant Singh Khalra was a Bank Director in Amritsar by Profession before becoming a Human Rights Activist....watch the following video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yq3CVYAMWs