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The article gives a context and background to the Supreme Court of India's decision to recognise transgenders as a legal third gender. Since the article is succinct can be used for activities such as reading comprehension, debate and discussion, and for building vocabulary around the issue of rights and equality.

This is a good reading comprehension activity regarding the life of Martin Luther King Jr. ( I wanted to stay with the Dr. King theme!) I really like this ESL library because it has a lot of relevant material for ESL students of all levels.

In 1845 Frederick Douglass published what was to be the first of his three autobiographies: the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself.

This lesson plan is prepared with an overview of the topic with some questions to guide reading comprehension. I think you can find many ideas for developing your culture and literature classes.

The worksheet contains a short article about Halloween and two exercises on reading comprehension. It is good for low elementary students, just present simple was used. Vocabulary is includ

Useful website where you will find different biographies of African American people who fought for their rights. You will also find important historical events that marked the process of having equal human rights for all American people. In this website, there are also printables with short reading comprehension activities and pictures to color about human rights history for your students.

This ESL listening Web site created by Randall Davis helps ESL/EFL students improve their listening comprehension skills through practice with self-grading quiz pages.

learnenglishfeelgood.com - ESL/ELL-English Grammar and Vocabulary Tests, Worksheets, Free ESL Resources, Video-based listening comprehension tests, lists of American Idioms and phrasal verbs, ELT, and more

One of the most comprehensive sites on human rights around. Contains current human rights reports on most countries and articles on human rights violations worldwide. This is a really useful site for those who want to deepen their understanding of human rights issues. The site contains a lot of videos, photos, some statistics and testimonies. Without doubt teachers can offer their students to work together on a project "Human Rights" in order to raise their awareness of the issue. In addition, teachers can use the site to teach university students how to analyze and synthesize material.