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The Characteristics and Basics of Human Rights Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: Monwa3at The video provides an explanation of the human rights curriculum approved by the Ministry of Higher Education on all colleges and institutes of the Arab Republic of Egypt. The video consists of 3 chapters which are as follows: the legal system of the rules for the protection of human rights, the general rules of the idea of human rights and finally the characteristics.
Learning About Human Rights in the Primary School Year of publication: 2013 Corporate author: Amnesty International UK This booklet provides a sample of our human rights education resources produced for primary schools. It helps provide pupils with an understanding of their own human rights and the values and attitudes that underpin them. It will help to foster attitudes of respect and an appreciation of the uniqueness of each individual. Pupils will also develop skills to enable them to take action to defend human rights.You will find a set of 10 interactive lessons for children – five for age 5+ (England and Northern Ireland: Key Stage 1; Wales: Foundation Phase; Scotland: Early and First Level) and five for age 7-11 (England, Nothern Ireland and Wales: Key Stage 2; Scotland: Second Level). Please photocopy and adapt these exercises for your own classroom use.All the activities are designed to encourage pupils to take a basic starting point, often based on something close to home or an event or situation they’ve experienced or can relate to, and then develop it. Pupils are then invited to expand their understanding beyond themselves and to begin to think outwards and towards others, whether locally, nationally or globally.The final activity, Taking action for human rights, explains how schools can sign up to the Junior Urgent Action Network. It’s an opportunity for children to become more actively involved with Amnesty International’s human rights work through our letter-writing campaign. In addition, you can download free resources on a range of human rights issues and order free posters for your school from www.amnesty.org.uk/resources-schools.
Key Concepts: A Feminist Approach to Human Rights Education (Chapter 4) Year of publication: 2014 Author: Julie Maia Corporate author: Stanford Human Rights Education Initiative (SHREI) Developed for the Stanford Human Rights Education Initiative (SHREI), this curriculum project examines connections among Gender Studies, feminist theory, and human rights movements around the world. This SHREI project presents its four key concepts through four curricular units, or chapters, each with a series of activities that can easily be adapted for use in courses in many disciplines. Each chapter contains these elements: A definition of the key concept An example of the use of the concept in a human rights document A brief essay on the value of the concept for human rights education A series of activities that guide students in using gender, race/ethnicity/nation, and class as lenses for analyzing social justice issues include transnational and multicultural perspectives on gender and human rights issues use "best practices" pedagogies for teaching human rights topics in community colleges. Within each chapter, activities are orgaized from simple to complex. Most activities, however, have self-contained objectives and can be used independently of the others. Sections on “Extending the Learning” offer longer readings or in-depth material for advanced courses. The GCED Clearinghouse introduces only chapter 4, "global citizenship" of this SHERI project.
Human rights: questions and answers Year of publication: 2009 Author: Leah Levin Corporate author: UNESCO This 5th edition presents an overview of the scope and content of international human rights law, procedures to monitor its implementation, organizations and institutions working for human rights, major international events, as well as new developments and challenges. It also offers a brief commentary on the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights explaining their meaning and providing examples on their practical implications. A permanent feature of this publication, and one of the reasons of its success, are the cartoons of Plantu, a well-known French political cartoonist and a devoted human rights activist.
Promotion and implementation of global citizenship education in crisis situations Year of publication: 2017 Author: Robiolle Moul, Tina Corporate author: UNESCO Crisis situations affect the realization of human rights of many people and communities across all regions of the world. Within UNESCO’s relevant areas of work, GCED is a powerful approach to education that can empower people to recover from crises and transform their communities into peaceful and sustainable societies. UNESCO commissioned a desk study that aimed at reviewing existing research on the promotion and implementation of GCED and related programs in countries affected by crisis situations, with particular attention to initiatives benefiting the refugee population. This study unveils the key challenges these programs encounter in such contexts, as well as promising practices that can guide the design and implementation of future GCED in crisis situations.This report is a synthesis of this desk study and supports the evidence that, after analyzing the context and the available means, GCED and related programs can and should be systematically adapted and implemented in crisis situations, including in response to refugee crises.
Teacher Training for Multicultural Education in Favour of Democracy and Sustainable Development: the Territorial Approach Year of publication: 1995 Author: Raúl Galiardi | Paula Bernadini Mosconi Corporate author: UNESCO This publication is part of the book Teacher Training and Multiculturalism: National Studies. This book presents the outcomes concerning the initial training systems of teachers in eight countries at different levels of development in different regions of the world but who are faced with a common challenge to educate for cultural diversity. Both the conclusions of each particular study and the general outcomes demonstrate the complexity of the problems and the benefits of comparative analysis. Overcoming prejudices and stereotypes is not an easy task nor likely to be achieved in the short term. Mentalities change far more slowly than knowledge and, because of this, educational strategies need to be applied in the long term. This study also shows that it is necessary to improve the exchange of experiences as well as contacts between people and institutions who are confronted with the same problems in different contexts. The publication of the initial outcomes of this project is intended to enrich the quality of discussions between specialists and institutions who, in different parts of the world, are concerned by multicultural education as an instrument to promote understanding, respect and dialogue between cultures. 