Lesson 1: What are the major Human rights issues in the world today?
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To have an understanding of a range of different human rights issues from a range of perspectives Lesson 1 Tasks What are the Human Rights? Think and write down a definition. Then share your answers with the class. Consider the different types of human rights. Are they different in the developed and developing world? Interview members of the family about their views on human rights and how they developed these views. Watch the video on the top right. Follow this link and complete the activities. Individual Research: Select a basic human right. Investigate how this human right is addressed in three to five different nations. Group Project: Create a poster, infogram, or other visual on a human right issue to post at school to raise awareness. |
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Lesson 2: How do human rights work?
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To understand where human rights came from, be aware of the laws that help to protect young people’s human rights, and understand how human rights work in practice. Lesson 1 Tasks Human rights quiz to check learning from previous lesson. (First slides in presentation) View the slides to introduce the long history of human rights, explaining that the modern concept was created to prevent the atrocities of the Holocaust from ever happening again. Discuss why laws are needed and the importance of human rights laws using the slides. Work in small groups to read a message from a child on Facebook asking for advice about a human rights issue. The messages are fictional but based on real-life case studies. Each group will review the messages on attached worksheets. They also need the fact sheet explaining the different human rights laws and they will use this to respond to the child explaining what laws help to protect their rights and action they can take. Individual Research: Use the slides to discuss whether they think the rights under the UNCRC should be law. Select one of the UNCRC rights to be better protected and write a short text message that can be used to campaign and spread the word for why it needs to be better protected. Group Project: Each group should present their response to their peers. Useful websites: xxx |
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