HRE-RFYN Ahmedabad

@St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
25-26 Jan 2013

Facilitator: Bro. Albert Xaviour

 This report is one of five recent Human Rights Education training events organised entirely by our Young Adult program RFYN  (therefore “HRE-RFYN”).

They lead a new initiative within the total IARF HRE program to match IARF central funding with self-funding / local contributions.
They are also the first reports to feature all event costings & expenditure.
Please see the table on the final report page for figures that show how these events have achieved this self-funding initiative’s goal.

 Report  (PDF 7 pages, illustrated, video links)

HRE-RFYN Chhindwara

@Danielson Degree College, Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh
28-29 Jan 2013

Facilitator: Bro. Albert Xaviour

 This report is one of five recent Human Rights Education training events organised entirely by our Young Adult program RFYN (therefore “HRE-RFYN”).

They lead a new initiative in the IARF HRE program to match IARF central funding with self-funding / local contributions.
They are also the first reports to feature all event costings & expenditure.
Please see the table on the final report page for figures that show how these events have achieved this self-funding initiative’s goal.

Report (PDF 8 pages, illustrated, video links)

RFYN Interfaith Peace Rally

Chennai seafront
23rd January 2013 
Co-ordinators:  Krishnan Ramachandran, Anbumani Arumugam, Nitya Saheba

The rally was held in consonance with the UN declared Interfaith Harmony Week (February every year) to be observed by organisations across the world.

We are happy that the rally attracted 800-odd students from 3 districts in and around Chennai city. There was representation from the Ramakrishna Math, Brahma Kumari’s, Jain monks, Buddhist monks from Burma based in Chennai, from the Archbishop of Chennai, from Islam.

All the religious and inter-faith leaders present agreed to meet again in the near future for a longer  program to create awareness among the younger generation for a better environment.

Report (PDF 7 pages, illustrated): RFYN Interfaith Peace Rally Report (23 January 2013)

Photos (Picasa link)

HRE-RFYN at three locales

Three Human Rights Education & Training (HRET) events run by HRE Facilitator & RFYN representative on IARF Council, Bro. Albert Xaviour, with the assistance of Support Facilitator Ms. Janhvi Gupte.

These events were organised entirely by our Young Adult program RFYN (therefore “HRE-RFYN”).

They lead a new initiative in the IARF HRE program, to match IARF central funding with self-funding / local contributions.
They are also the first reports to feature all event costings & expenditure.
(Please see the table on the final page of each report below for figures that show how these events have achieved the goal of this self-funding initiative).

1. Chennai, TamilNadu:

   @Sri Venkateshvara College of Engineering and Technology, Tiruvallur  (PDF 5 pages, illustrated)
   22-23 Nov 2012
   Event report page with slideshow

    

2. Hindupur, Andhra Pradesh:

   @BIT Engineering College   (PDF 3 pages, illustrated)
   26 Nov 2012 

3. Ahmedabad, Gujarat: 

   @St. Xavier’s College Ladies’ Hostel (PDF 5 pages, illustrated)
   29-30 Nov 2012

HRET at Sri Venkateshwara

@Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering & Technology (SVCET), Tiruvallur, Chennai: 

Human Rights Education training
 22-23 November 2012

Facilitator: Bro. Albert Xaviour

This training event is among the first in a new initiative in the IARF HRE program, by the young adult network RFYN, to match IARF central funding with self-funding / local contributions.
Its report below is among the first in the overall IARF HRE program to feature all event costings & expenditure (Please see the table on the final report page for figures that show how these events have achieved this self-funding initiative’s goal).

Sri Venkateshwara College HRET – slides from IARF on Vimeo.

Report (PDF 3 pages, illustrated)

Related HRE-RFYN events

International Human Rights Day
10 December 2012

 IARF Council member Adv. V. Rengapashyam and college Placement Officer James Manoharan spoke to an audience consisting of the participants in the above HRE training plus other interested students. The founder and Chairman of Sri Venkateshwara College, Dr. K.C. Vasudevan, attended together with other staff.

SACC-RFYN Conference, Mysore 2012

@Adhichunchanagiri Mutt, Mysore, Karnataka, India
30th – 31st Oct 2012

Organiser:  Prof. Anbumani Arumugam, International Young Adult President, IARF-RFYN.

Report (PDF, 11 pages illustrated)

Photos

RFYN International Youth Conference 2012

24 to 28 September 2012 
@Nobili Pastoral Centre, Madurai, TamilNadu, India

• Organized in association with the Angelo Province of the Institute of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, India.
•  A historic gathering for IARF in being a first attempt to be self-funded (that is, funded entirely from local member group contributions).
• 21 different Sacred Heart bodies around South India contributed generously. The 85 young adult participants themselves raised $900.

RFYN Madurai 2012 Report (PDF 22 pages, illustrated inc YouTube links)

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Bangladesh Chapter launches young adult branch

23-25 September 2012
@Department of World Religions, Dhaka University, Bangladesh

A reception for the visit to Bangladesh by IARF-JLC member Rev. Takahiro Miwa (accompanied by Mrs. Yukari Miwa and IARF-SACC president Dr. Thomas Mathew) was organised by the head of the Bangladesh Chapter of IARF-SACC, Dr. Kazi Nurul Islam (of the Department of World Religions, Dhaka University, Bangladesh).

Also part of the visiting delegation was Anbumani Arumugam, International President of RFYN and Assistant Professor at Annamalai University in Chennai.

• Her event report: Report on Bangladesh Chapter visit by SACC/Rev.Miwa

• Her seminar contribution: Paper given to Dhaka seminar by Anbumani Arumugam
  
  
• Photos of the occasion  (link to Picasa)

Further reporting on this and related events by SACC president Dr. Thomas Mathew:

• Seminar on Human Rights & Religious Freedom in South Asia – Dhaka, September 2012 (PDF, 4 pages)

 

• “Human Rights & Religious Freedom in Bangladesh”, by Jannatul Maoa (PDF, 5 pages)
• Words by Ms. Amin Tahsina Ferdous, Vice President RFYN Bangladesh (PDF, 2 pages)
• Organising committee of RFYN-Bangladesh (PDF, 1 page name list)

Hiroshima-Nagasaki Memorial Day 2012 Bangalore

@Infant Jesus Matriculation School, Bangalore
6 Aug 2012

Organized by Janhvi Gupte (RFYN Indore)

Report (PDF, 3 pages illustrated)

See also the related events in Chennai, Mysore and Tamil Nadu.

International RFYN Conference 2012, Madurai