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This is a collection of sites where you can research human rights from different perspectives. This group of web sites offers articles from different institutions that fight for and support human rights. These sites give you concepts of universal human rights. You will also be provided with a list of links to different organizations in which you can even find human rights areas for education, material resources and planned activities for teaching human rights.

"The goal of the project is to help human rights practitioners be more effective in advancing human rights. The organisers believe that by connecting innovative practitioners and sharing new approaches and skills involved in tactical thinking, the human rights community will have greater tactical flexibility and ultimately be more effective in human rights work."

A detailed framework for the study of women´s human rights is provided here. The activity to be used is called: Walking Reflection Teacher distributes article and asks students to read it. Teacher hangs pieces of flip chart paper in four different areas of the room. Each piece of paper should have a different heading: (1) A short history of Human Rights; (2) The Concept of Women`s Human Rights; (3) Applying the Human Rights Framework to Women and (4) The Movement for Women`s Human Rights. (these are the headings in the article) Students will travel from each piece of paper and take turns writing down the points/ideas for each heading that attracts their attention.

If we have to look for a renowned institution in human rights around the world, there it is Amnesty International. It has been all around the world denouncing all kinds of human right violations. They are specially interested in crimes against humanity due to war, political unrest, terrorism, hunger, etc.

Human Rights Watch is one of the world's leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. There is a lot of information here about what this organization does, the results, a lot of articles and videos. A good source to find materials for the lesson about human rights.

Violence and abuse inflicted on women by men is not treated with the same seriousness accorded to a human rights violation, or torture, or terrorism, or a war crime, or a crime against humanity, or an atrocity, despite resembling each of these things closely at least and precisely at most. Press Releases is a task that be used with this article. The article is presented to students and they have to research on a woman that has suffered abuse and violence during the terrorists attacks of Shining Path and MRTA. Students have to write a press release about their findings This will provide reflection and publicity! .

Several points of view on how to teach Human Rights in an English class.

Amnesty International is a global movement of people fighting injustice and promoting human rights (http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work). This website offers lesson plans that have been carefully planned by professionals. It also offers Film Curriculum Guides and Teaching Guides for Educators.

There seems to be a wide variety of lesson plans on many issues dealing with human rights and for many different levels of students. I don't know whether these lesson plans could be used as presented, but they appear to provide at least a blueprint for a lesson plan. I also like the references given in the lesson plan, and the plans are easily downloaded.

I had a look at this site after seeing it recommended here on Diigo (thanks!) and it seems to have a lot of potential.  I agree with Richard that teachers would probably need to adapt some of the activities. There are some nice materials though and the 'Rights & Responsibilities' and 'The Right to an Education' are a nice lead-in to the topic of human right as they use the familiar topic of school to get students thinking.

Human Rights Humane Education Activities feature lesson plans & activities that explore issues related to the rights of all humans of all ages and types. Activity topics include everything from discrimination and genocide to oppression and sweatshops. Activities are organized by general grade categories. Some activities are in more than one issue category, as well as in more than one grade category.

A great website containing lesson plans and activities on human rights. They are divided into lessons for all ages, elementary, middle school, high school and college/adult categories. All files can be easily downloaded in PDF.

The International Human Rights Movement believes it can improve the lives of women, but is it in fact responding to their needs? In my class a Debate will be set up. Teacher distributes article that will serve as input for the activity. Students will debate the pros and cons of: Should minorities be treated differentially?

Provides examples of service learning projects Service-learning is a powerful and provocative way for people to learn about human rights-related issues. Working in both the classroom and the "field," establishes a crucial link between the content of curriculum learned in school and the various realities that exist in the world.

The ultimate compilation of activities for our students applied for human rights. Easy to follow. Hope you like it.

Excellent site to start teaching our little children our rights as human beings. We can print out some of the exerpts they have and use them as reading exercises. Then, Have them worjk in groups, so they can act out their interpretation of the human right they read. Else, we can also follow the lesson plan they have in the site. hope it is useful.

"This lesson foster students to analyze technological innovations, scientific discoveries, and environmental crises from a human rights perspective. "

The main document of human rights. 

Organized Lessons

Hello Everyone! Well I found this great site that not only allows you to research and find some insights about Human Rights, but alo it helps you to work with them as a series of classes designed for classroom use. I found them very interesting.

Lesson Plans for classroom usage.

These are organized lesson plans for teaching human rights, once again aimed to be used in classroom usage. I have read most of the activities and I found that there are plenty of good examples, disscussions and group work activities that could be implemented without big efforts.

This seems to be a place to start with for high level ESL students. The site lays out a wide range of issues, there are many articles to read, and the site appears to be very user-friendly. Look at the geographical organization. One can also search by category of human rights. Perhaps as an initial exploration of the topic, students could choose an issue they found interesting and report back to their small groups what the issue is and why they chose it. This might encourage other students to become familiar with that issue.

If you are an ESL-EFL teacher and the topic/theme of interest is Human Rights, this website may work for you. It offers a number of activities that can be adapted to any age or level and it is updated regularly.

My topic is Violation of Human Rights in Peru (1980-2000). I found this lesson plan from a project in Austrailia. I would change this lesson plan slightly. Instead of people in" another country" I would ask my students instead to talk about Peruvian Andean people.