ABC - Teaching Human Rights (Chapter 3)

Human Rights Topics for Primary & Secondary Schools

Elementary, Middle

Description

  • This resource is an excellent foundation for the myriad social responsibility and social issues resources available. It defines principles for the positive conduct of all human activity, and focuses students and teacher on creating a human rights culture within the classroom and community.
  • The resource provides ideas for meaningful activities that will help students to understand and name human rights. Each activity provides annotation of Human and Child Rights matching articles for ease of cross-reference.
  • Examples of the issues covered in the resource include:
  1. Protecting life - the Individual and Society
  2. Government and the Law
  3. War, Peace and Human Rights
  4. Freedom of Thought, Conscience, Religion, Opinion and Expression
  5. Social and Cultural Wellbeing

  6. Discrimination
  7. Development and the Environment
  8. The Right to Education
  • Chapters one and two are worthwhile reading for teachers of all grades and can be accessed by making a small change to the URL.

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