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Right Here, Right Now: Teaching citizenship through Human Rights
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home -so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." Eleanor Roosevelt
A new resource for schools Right Here, Right Now: Teaching citizenship through Human Rights has been published by the British Ministry of Justice. The resource is part of a project which is a partnership between the Ministry of Justice and the British Institute of Human Rights (and involving Amnesty International and the Department for Children, Schools and Families).
The contents include:
An introduction to human rights
Human rights education
Module overviews and curriculum links
Lesson Plans and Resources
School rules!
The human rights story
Human rights in focus
Human rights in the UK
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Balancing rights
Taking responsibility for human rights
Human rights issues including identities, diversity and common values,homophobic bullying and child poverty
Taking action for human rights
Assessment levels
The UK Human Rights Act
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
There is also an extensive Glossary.
For more information : Right Here, Right Now: Teaching citizenship through Human Rights
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