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Roads to Refuge: Refugees in Australia

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify terms asylum seeker, refugee and migrant, and discuss differences. Students examine significance of persecution in refugee context, explore concept of human rights and discuss some key articles from Universal...
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Human Rights Around the World and at Home

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Pupils research a set of statements from their worksheet. They generate a list of affirmations and abuses that are specific to their own country and ocmmunity.
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Echoes & Reflections

The Children and Legacies Beyond the Holocaust

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Using video testimony, primary source documents that detail international agreements, and structured discussions, learners consider the precarious position of children during the Holocaust and other international conflicts, and how to...
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EngageNY

Grade 10 ELA Module 2: Unit 3, Lesson 1

For Teachers 10th Standards
Scholars examine the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and analyze the ideas in the preamble. Readers define new vocabulary words, listen to a Masterful Reading, answer questions in pairs, participate in a jigsaw discussion, and...
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Human Rights, Human Wrongs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students consider the meaning of the term 'human rights'. They define human rights and research how international human rights doctrine has been established and what specifics are included.
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Social Studies: Human Rights Then and Now

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine past and present human rights issues in U.S. history. In reflection journals, they document both justices and injustices perpetrated on groups and individuals. Finally, students implement an action plan designed to...
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The Legal Challenge of Human Rights Protection

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students identify the types and extent of human rights violations that occurred in El Salvador . They will also analyze the various laws and statutes that dictate the processes to protect and punish war crimes and human rights...
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Human Rights

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the need for rules and human rights. They imagine what it would be like without rules or rights. Students complete a case study involving human rights in Afghanistan. Students share a top ten list of Human Rights.
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The Elderly Poor: Human Rights

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students examine facts about the elderly population of the United States that lives in poverty through the context of universal human rights. They participate in class discussion, review census records, read case studies, interview...
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Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights

Vaclav Havel: Free Expression

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Develop an understanding of universal human rights, particularly the freedom of expression, with the questions and activities that analyze the conflicts of Vaclav Havel. Learners define, interpret and rephrase the human rights article in...
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Education Evaluation

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders examine their human right to an education.  In this American Law lesson, 11th graders evaluate how well the world is doing when it comes to providing a free, equal, quality education to our youth.  Students...
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Introducing the 1981 United Nations Declaration on Freedom of Religion or Belief

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Young scholars examine the United Nations Declaraction on Freedom of Religion and Beliefs. As a class, they distinguish between the definitions of worship, observance, practice and teaching. In groups, they evaluate the definitions of...
Lesson Plan
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Freedom of the Press Around the World

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners research press freedoms in various countries such as Iran and North Korea. They create a freedom of the press report card for the countries examined.
Worksheet
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ESL Holiday Lessons

For Students 7th - 10th
In this language skills worksheet, students read an article on World Press Freedom Day. Students respond to 6 matching questions, 29 fill in the blank questions, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word scramble questions, 30 short answer...
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Religious Freedom and Persecution throughout the World

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the role of religion throughout the world. Using documents from the United Nations, they read through Article 18 and describe it in detail. In groups, they identify religions based on how much freedom or persecution is...
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Advocates for Human Rights

Deliberative Dialogue

For Students 8th - Higher Ed Standards
How do you create a classroom environment where hot button topics may be discussed in a respectful manner? As part of a series of lessons that focus on immigration issues, class members examine the rules for civil discussion before...
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Speak Truth to Power

Jamie Nabozny: Bullying: Language, Literature and Life

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Class members identify bullying in contemporary texts and role play how they might change those scenes to examples of anti-bullying. They then re-define their initial definitions of bullying and discuss what they...
Lesson Plan
Speak Truth to Power

Dalai Lama: Free Expression and Religion

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How is religious freedom connected to the conflict between China and Tibet? After reading an online passage of background information, your learners will divide into groups and both read and view an interview with the Dalai Lama. They...
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Family

For Teachers K
Students listen to a teacher read aloud of a book about families before discussing what a family is to them. They discuss how families can be the same or different, who they are made of, and what their traditions might be. They draw a...
Activity
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Family

For Teachers K - 1st
Students draw a picture of something they enjoy doing with their family, or something special about their family. Students share their pictures with the class, and then they will be displayed in the classroom.
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Human Rights Web: Universal Declaration of Human Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is the full text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Other

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the actual text of the declaration adopted in 1948. Each article has a link to a piece of artwork that symbolizes the idea expressed in the article.
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Women, Human Rights and Decision Making

For Students 9th - 10th
This article covers the issue of women's empowerment and their full and equal participation in public life, including Governments' obligations to ensure the Human Right to full and equal participation in power and decision-making.
Website
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Article 19: Promoting Freedom of Expression

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses right to information and freedom of expression issues. Bright, colorful, nicely designed with many resources.