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Business and human rights. Resourse Centre ( selected by countries, activites, companies and topics). Good resourse for Business English studies ( ESP). The site is localized into several languages, including Russian.

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.

in this web page we can find useful activities to teach human rights, and connect the rights in our lives

This is a very interesting web site about Human Rights that has interesting ideas on how we can teach them in the classroom. It includes a wide variety of links with lessons and activities we can adapt in our classrooms.

This site gives good overview and understanding of human rights. It covers topics like; Human rights in the news, history and human rights, mapping human rights in our community, etc...

Introduce or review key grammar concepts with Flocabulary's educational rap songs and videos. Discover parts of speech, capitalization, prefixes and suffixes, synonyms and antonyms, commas and more.

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.

This a good educational website about human rights. A variety of topics related to human rights such as discrimination, equality and prejudice and stereotypes are discussed in the lesson plans