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papers written by Brazilian ELT teachers and teacher educators between 2001 and 2010 as part of their Masters studies in the UK, as beneficiaries of the British Council Brazil and the Hornby Trust Scholarship.

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

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.

Sabanci University School of Languages invites you to collaborate and focus on inspiring learners in our 2nd International Conference on Language Education. http://eclipsing-expectations.sabanciuniv.edu

It is a nice site where we can find some grammar focus exercises. Specially for teachers who do not have enough time to do them on their own. Moreover, it has teachers´forums where we can share ideas.

A great variety of samples to use with students for keeping them alive in english.