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

Collection of teacher resources that address the Millennium Development Goals

Great resource to develop PBL projects expanding the learning process outside the classroom. It covers 5 topics: environment, poverty, discrimination, children's rights to education and health, and law and justice

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.

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

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.

A great collection of printable worksheets for students of different age groups and with different levels of English. Registration is needed to use the resources (it's free of charge)

Free English grammar and vocabulary worksheets and printable handouts, for English language and English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers and instructors to use in the classroom or other teaching environment.

http://www.highlights.com/ is a great FREE learning site for children. There is also http://www.highlightskids.com/ which is for a little older children.

Agreat ReadWriteThink activity for students who are free to creat brochure, newspaper, booklet or flyer

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?

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! .

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.

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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.

An uncomfortable issue nowadays is student's disruptions during the period of class. This takes place for several reasosns. But the main one is when students do not have motivation according to their interests; something to keep them awake and active in class. The site above will give you a chance to have better perspectives in acting.

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.

This is a very useful website to create your own puzzles. They can help us spice up our lessons.

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