INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION

IUS PRIMI VIRI

The international Association IUS Primi Viri is a non-party-oriented and non-profit-making organization based in Rome.

It was established by the will of some fifty founders (they were scholars and representatives of the juridical, scientific and political world) who had recognized the "Declaration of Intents for a joint Strategy" as the main operational tool for a true Human Rights Education, regardless of peoples’ race, colour and culture.

An intense activity developed from the close co-operation between IPV and CEU - the Centre for Human Evolution Studies which established IPV - both nationally and internationally, in the field of Human Rights Teaching.

Within the policies of States great contradictions have hampered a democratic consciousness to take place on the basis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: it seems that they did not understand that the quality of the development of both reason and consciousness of citizens depends basically on the quality of school and university programme, that is on educational policies.

The individual is potentially born endowed with reason and consciousness and a State’s policy is obliged to support this universal, sacred, absolute and unviolable principle. Such an obligation is the essence of the civil existence of a State’s organizations, which have the duty to allow - by means of education - the full and concrete achievement of that potential, wonderful project each human being is endowed with.

IUS PRIMI VIRI profound meaning encourages wishes the birth of the first Man who is truly aware of and responsible for his being and becoming within the framework of the values as expressed by Human Rights and acknowledged by the various democratic Constitutions.

Following a twenty-year multidisciplinary integrated study tradition conducted at C.E.U. we were able to ascertain that women’s and men’s universality is rooted on a biological programme (genetic Self) which is inherent in each human being. For this programme may develop an Education is needed that is able to integrate the fundamental aspects of life which are linked to the principles of dignity, freedom , justice and love. Therefore, human being is a psychophysical and spiritual entity and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights encompasses all values which can do justice to every people of the Earth.

The intense activity of IUS PRIMI VIRI is extremely wide both at national and international level. It is carried out in close co-operation with the main international organisms (UN, European Union, Council of Europe, UNESCO, OSCE).

Study meeting on "Physiology of a democratic State comparison between positive law and concrete reality (Palace of Justice, Rome, 1992) co-organized with the Supreme Court;

First European Conference for launching the Decade for Human Rights Education (Barberini Palace, Rome, 1993);

Establishment, as foreseen by the Final Statement of the European Conference, of an International Standing Committee for the implementation of the Decade for Human Rights Education (the Committee gathered together at the school for Advanced Studies for the Police Forces, Rome, 1994);

"Fifty years after the establishment of U.N., the proclamation of the Decade for Human Rights Education" (School for Advanced Studies for the Police Forces, Rome, 1995): this international Meeting was organized in co-operation with the Italian National Committee for the fiftieth anniversary of U.N. establishment. The introductory lecture was given by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights;

Human Rights as the political foundation for a democratic consciousness: intervention priorities" (Main Hall, "La Sapienza" University of Rome, 1996): this international Meeting was organized with the support of the European Union within the framework of the UN Decade for Human Rights Education and the semester of Italian Presidency to the European Union.;

Training course for trainers on "Human Rights Education" co-organized and held together with the University "Roma Tre" of Rome;

A three-part audiovisual programme on Human Rights Education:

1.Human Rights: relationship between State and citizens";

2. Racism, xenophobia, intolerance: education in the respect for diversities;

3. Human Rights: from legality to justice.

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