Human Rights Education

Resources for educators and students about how to defend dignity and equality at home and abroad

The Basics: What are human rights?
What are human rights?
Who has to uphold human rights?
Are some rights more important than others?
Do human rights reduce poverty?
How do you know if something is a human rights violation?
How do human rights evolve?
Children’s rights around the world

The Expert: Hone your activism skills

 

An Introduction to Human Rights Advocacy

Take ouronline seminar for human rights advocacy. This series of 7 short videos, hosted by Human Rights Watch’s children’s rights advocate Jo Becker, will give you an insider’s look at how you can work to bring meaningful change to people’s lives. The videos were made in conjunction with Columbia University. Also, check outBecker’s book,Campaigning for Children.

Our Foundation: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Learn More: How children’s rights are impacted worldwide

Start a book club

Read, discuss, and share these books on human rights, many written by HRW experts
1.The Courage of Strangers Jeri Laber
2.A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah
3.Torture: Does It Make Us Safer? Is It Ever OK? Kenneth Roth and Minky Worden, ed.
4.King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa Adam Hochschild
5.Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement Roberta Cohen and Francis M. Deng
6.Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy Kevin Bales
7.The Unraveling: Central African Republic Marcus Bleasdale & Peter Boukcaert
8.The Evolution of International Human Rights Paul Gordon Lauren
9.War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror, and the Struggle for Justice Aryeh Neier
10.A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide Samantha Power

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