Experience in Teaching Human Rights

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Experience in Teaching Human Rights
Susanna Dehler Swiss Section
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• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( 1948
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• Article 3
• Everyone has the right to life, liberty and
  security of person

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• Human Rights Training
• The 19th International Training Session on Human
  Rights and Peace Training
• Organized by CIFEDHOP (Centre International de
  Formation à lEnseignement des Droits de lHomme
  et de la Paix) in the Canton of Geneva from July
  8 14, 2001

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• CIFEDHOP an NGO - with advisory status with the
  UN participants in the English speaking section
  from all over the globe
• Course contacts continued by e-mail
  correspondence
• Continuous information by newsletters and
  publications, such as Ecole et Paix

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• Training Experience about the following topics
• Cultural Dialogue and the Fight against Racism
• Human Rights Education Methodology
• Case studies
• Session of the Human Rights Commission in Geneva

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• Training Experience about the following topics
• Introduction to Human Rights the foundation
  concepts
• The many forms of discrimination a challenge
  for equality of rights
• Methods for further action
• Complex instruction methods

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• A Short History of Human Rights
• Magna Carta ( 1215 )
• Petition of Rights ( 1628 )
• The Habeas Corpus Act ( 1679 )
• Bill of Rights ( 1689 )
• The American Declaration of Independence ( 1776 )

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The Human Rights Declaration of 1776

• We hold these rights to be self-evident, that all
  men are created equal, that they are endowed by
  their Creator with certain unalienable rights,
  that among these are life, liberty, and the
  pursuit of happiness. That to secure these
  rights, governments are instituted among men,
  deriving their just powers from the consent of
  the governed that whenever any form of
  government becomes destructive of these ends, it
  is the right of the people to alter or to abolish
  it, and to institute new government

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The UN Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and
its application to school lessons

• Essential rights
• Peace and the right to live
• Food
• Health
• Economic development and well-being
• Freedom from discrimination
• Womens rights
• Minority rights

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Founding a Human Rights Society/HRS

• Define the purpose of the HRS in detail
• Have a competition for a logo
• Produce membership cards with the logo
• Distribute jobs and responsibilities within the
  group
• Create a notice-board for your activities

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Other Ideas for working with HR

• Documentation from the Council of Europe in
  Strasbourg
• Documentation from Amnesty International in
  London
• Selection of International and Regional Human
  Rights Texts from CIFEDHOP, e.g. Education a
  matter of law

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Other Ideas for working with HR

• The UN brochures about Human Rights Education and
  Human Rights Treaties
• Booklets The UN in Our Daily Lives and Tell me
  About the United Nations, with the preface by
  Kofi Annan

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Experience with Literature

• Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
• George Orwell, 1984
• George Orwell, Animal Farm
• Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
• Bernard MacLaverty, Cal
• Claudia Miklowitz, The War of the Classes
• Billy Hayes / William Hoffer, Midnight Express

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A Special Experience with Literature

• Waris Dirie, Desert Flower
• Implications FGM ( Female Genital Mutilation )
• Action
• A Swiss students exam paper
• The latest news

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