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Long Live Human Rights Learning: in memoriam of Shulamith Koenig
For Shulamith, human rights learning was an ethics of care and not just an ethic of legal rights.
(Reposted from: India Legal Live.
August 6, )
By Prof Upendra Baxi
Shulamith Koenig—who since was the founding president of PDHRE, a movement for Human Rights Learning (formerly known as People’s Decade for Human Rights Education)—has moved into infinity, but hers was a life lived exceptionally well.
She has left the world which she reshaped with the quest of human right to have human rights education and learning.
As we well know, one may be educated but never learn to care for hapless others; and formal education about human rights may still leave wholly behind rightless human beings and disadvantaged people.
For Shulamith, human rights learning was an ethics of care and not just an ethic of legal rights.
She leaves behind many difficult legacies, including one (where to invert the phrase of French philosophe