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it is rather an interesting discussion about the violation of minority rights in the former Soviet republics, that can be used in class

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.

This page has resources for us teacehrs to help students develop a critical understanding of human rights and responsibilities. Comprehensive, teacher friendly.

This article presents ways to prevent violence against women in post-conflict contexts, particularly by engaging men. The acitivuty to be used is called: FISHBOWL Teacher distributes the article to be read. Teacher sets up a fishbowl by having students get into two circles, one inside the other with the students facing each other. Teacher gives students a question relating to the article to discuss for two minutes with the person they are facing. After two minutes the inside circle rotates moving one person over so each person is facing someone new. For another two minutes they can discuss another topic or the same one. The inside circle continues rotating until they are back in front of their original partner. At the end teacher asks fro volunteers to talk about their impressions on the activity.

Human rights can be viewed with global perspectives. Our school uses this website as a resource for our global studies classes

this site can be used with EFl students as it is a resourse for language learners (like graded readers).the students can use it to enhance their reading and vocabulary skills, while the teacher can set it and a reading home task

Interesting activities that deal with the topic of Human Rights at Secondary level.

Teach yourself and teach others with the help of materials on the Website

A lesson plan with the activities and audio about the refugees. It has variety of activities, there's also a downloadable audio and a text of the article. It can be used to compare the words "imigrant" and "refugee" and to talk about the problems of these groups.

This is a ready-made lesson by Sean Banville about International Mine Day. It is quite accessible and there are different ways to use the material. I liked it because in addition to the reading / speaking / vocab activities it comes with an MP3 recording. Lots of potential!

Good selection of topics related to the freedom of speech, which is an always controversial subject, furthermore is a nationwide issue in my country

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was set up in Peru in order to investigate and present a report of what had happened in Peru as a consequence of the action of the Shining Path. The aim of the final report is that we should not forget our history so that we do not repeat it. The video shows an exhibit of photos and a survivor who speaks to the audience in Quechua.