For Educators - Human Rights resources and links
AI Canada: Amnesty International Human Rights Kit - A Classroom Resource
A rich resource for introducing human rights concepts into the classroom. Includes information about human rights, the text of some of the key human rights instruments, and a wide range of workshop and activity ideas which can be adapted to different classroom settings and age groups.
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This section of AI Australia's website provides resources that may be freely downloaded and distributed for educational purposes. Includes resources for learning about refugees and asylum-seekers, for learning about human rights, as well as links to other Australian NGO sites dealing with human rights education.
AI Canada's Urgent Actions for Students
Urgent actions written for children and usually about a child.
AI Ireland: Teachers Corner
This section is dedicated to primary and post primary education teachers who wish to access useful resources, articles and classroom activities on HRE.
AI UK: Teaching Resources
This section of Amnesty UK's website provides information on human rights in the UK curriculum; human rights education packs; and publications for teachers and young people.
AIUSA: Human Rights Education
AIUSA's online resource centre for teachers and educators.
YouthRights
Find human rights projects, "free stuff", curriculum, inspiration and more at this website for Amnesty International volunteers and educators around the world.
Amnesty Publications
For Amnesty books, check out the Amnesty Online Shop. Topics include children's rights, women's human rights, business & human rights, books on the death penalty, torture, "disappearances" and country specific publications. If you are interested in receiving a print copy of Sources: AI Canada's Publications Catalogue, please email library@amnesty.ca
Amnesty Videos
The Amnesty Online Shop also includes Amnesty International videos. Videos are a great way to introduce human rights issues into the classroom and videos like Candle of Hope, Cry for Justice and Light in the Darkness have proven to be extremely popular with teachers across the country. Video titles are also included in Sources: AI Canada's Publications Catalogue.
Non-Amnesty Websites*
First Steps: A Manual for Starting Human Rights Education (HREA link)
The Manual is directed towards teachers with little or no experience in teaching human rights. The resource is divided into several sections, including the background for human rights education; tools for teaching human rights (including teaching methods, lesson development, evaluation and organisation of training seminars); sample lessons; key human rights documents; and other resources for promoting human rights education.
UN Cyberschool Bus
UN materials for teaching children and youth of different ages about UN activies, including human rights issues. Includes background information, materials for teaching, and interactive games.
Human Rights Education Associates
The HRE Library contains over 1000 full-text guides, curricula, textbooks and other documents that can be used for both formal and non-formal education in human rights.
Human Rights Resource Center
The Human Rights Resource Center makes excellent HRE resources produced by non-profit organizations and independent publishers accessible to all. These resources include more than 50 curricula, guides, videos, documents, and other educational aids.
Oxfam Canada - Educational Resources
A collection of teaching materials on world issues topics. Some are general, while others are designed for specific grade and subjects to meet curriculum needs.
Oxfam UK – Cool Planet for teachers
This collection of teaching resources includes printed materials, classroom activities, and background information on a wide range of topics relating to global citizenship.
The People's Movement for Human Rights Education (PDHRE)
Founded in 1988, the People's Decade of Human Rights Education (PDHRE-International) is a non-profit, international service organization that works directly and indirectly with its network of affiliates — primarily women's and social justice organizations — to develop and advance pedagogies for human rights education relevant to people's daily lives in the context of their struggles for social and economic justice and democracy.
UNHCR: Teaching Tools
Teaching Tools aims to:
- Help students understand some of the complex processes that lead to violence and conflict which in turn cause refugees to flee from their homes and from their countries of origin.
- Cultivate attitudes that lead to a preference for constructive, active and non-violent resolution of conflict.
- Help students develop the personal and social skills necessary to live in harmony with others and to behave in positive and caring ways that respect basic human rights.
This site provides full-text access to all international human rights instrument. It also includes ratification information for all international human rights declarations, conventions, treaties etc.
Online Resources for Human Rights
Additional non-Amnesty sites for more information on human rights.
Check out the Resources for Students page for links to some of the most requested pages on the AI Canada website.
Disclaimer: The external non-Amnesty sites provided above contain information related to human rights issues. The information contained on these sites is not controlled by Amnesty International. Links to these sites do not in any way imply Amnesty International supports either the organizations listed, or views presented.
