"We have started to educate them about human rights. "That's why we have to make them understand what harassment, rights violation and human rights really mean," the director-general said. As a government body responsible for protecting people's rights, the director-general said his staff have worked with the National Human Rights Commission and the Ministry of Education to publish a guidebook on human rights education for students, starting from the kindergarten level. The department has trained teachers on the human rights curriculum in universities and schools in 10 provinces across the country. "In pilot schools, secondary education students who have learned about human rights first asked their teachers about school rules and issues like bullying.

Source: Bangkok Post October 25, 2020 23:15 UTC