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This worksheet offers a great (and creative, too) activity for you to try with young learners.

This site goes over the general facts about NSA surveillance programs. It describes the basic metadata that is collected for US phone calls:"the telephone number of the phones making and receiving the call, and how long the call lasted." It mentions the NSA program PRISM which collects emails, instant messages, and both private and public facebook data. It also mentions the program XKEYSCORE which gathers massive amounts of data from internet traffic. This FAQ also mentions what sort of things can be revealed by metadata and why critics of these programs find them alarming and illegal. This is a great article that covers the basic issues and concerns associated with NSA and mass surveillance. You could have students read it as a way to prep them for a project or discussion on this topic.

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.

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.

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.