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"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."

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

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.

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.

It's a good site for those who encounter problems working with a new auditorium/ Though the text is mainly about substitute teachers there are a lot of good ideas for everyone