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This is a page on Amnesty International's website. It is full of lesson plans that explicitly teach human rights. There are two separate sections - one for elementary students and one for middle school/high school students. The elementary lessons involve games and songs. This is a great resource for classroom teachers - lessons would need to be modified for distance learners.

HumanRights.gov is the official United States Government website for international human rights related information.

Film English by Kieran Donaghy features a media lesson on Human Rights and street art. This time a lesson is designed based on an award-winning video for Amnesty International by Carlos Lascano. On this section, you can find the link for the video to project in the classroom and a worksheet with activities mainly designed to generate discussion among the members of the group. The activity is intended for students in upper-intermediate level onwards. These activities will reinforce the listening and speaking skills.

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.

This is the website of Humanium. It's an international child sponsorship which supports projects for children on a global scale. The projects aim to put an end to the violations of children's rights. You can find Fundamental rights of children there, the International Convention on the Rights of the Child.

This website has a small section/page about "Children and Human Rights". It lists and describes some of the human rights that are violated in many children's lives. It's a good page with facts about Human Rights for children.

This site gives cool visual descriptions of where people migrate throughout the world.