TEACHING HUMAN RIGHTS
Problems associated with teaching the Holocaust in the UK
Access Human Rights: A portal to human rights resources on the internet provided by Human Rights Documentation.
Access Human Rights
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): The American Association for the Advancement of Science, (AAAS), is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association. In addition to organizing membership activities, AAAS publishes the journal Science, as well as many scientific newsletters, books and reports, and spearheads programs that raise the bar of understanding for science worldwide.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science
BBC World Service: "I have a right to..." is a global education project, developed by the BBC World Service Trust. It is designed to assist people to make informed choices about their lives and participate in discussion and debate.
"I have a right to..."
Castan Center for Human Rights: Monash Law School’s Castan Centre for Human Rights Law is a non-partisan, non-profit organisation committed to the protection and promotion of human rights throughout the world. The centre uses research and public education to generate innovative theoretical and practical approaches to understanding and implementing the growing body of international and domestic human rights law.
Castan Center for Human Rights
Center for the Study of Human Rights: Established in 1978 at Columbia University, the Center for the Study of Human Rights is committed to three core goals of providing excellent human rights education to Columbia students, fostering innovative interdisciplinary academic research, and offering its expertise in capacity building to human rights leaders, organizations, and universities around the world.
Center for the Study of Human Rights
The Children and Armed Conflict Unit: The Children and Armed Conflict Unit is a project of the Children’s Legal Centre, a UK registered charity, and the Human Rights Centre of the University of Essex. The Unit now sits in the international section of the Children’s Legal Centre, which is the lead body in this project. Set up in 1997, following the groundbreaking report on the impact of armed conflict on children by Graça Machel, the Unit’s patron, we work around the world to improve the situation for civilian children caught up in armed conflict and civil unrest and for those emerging from years of violence.
Children and Armed Conflict Unit
Equitas International Center for Human Rights Education: Equitas was established as a non-profit, non-governmental organization in 1967 by a group of leading Canadian scholars, jurists and human rights advocates with a mandate to advance democracy, human development, peace and social justice through educational programs.
Equitas International Center for Human Rights Education
Facing History and Ourselves: Facing History and Ourselves is an international educational and professional development organization whose mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. By studying the historical development and lessons of the Holocaust and other examples of genocide, students make the essential connection between history and the moral choices they confront in their own lives.
Facing History and Ourselves
Human Rights Education Associates: Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) is an international non-governmental organisation that supports human rights learning; the training of activists and professionals; the development of educational materials and programming; and community-building through on-line technologies. HREA is dedicated to quality education and training to promote understanding, attitudes and actions to protect human rights, and to foster the development of peaceable, free and just communities.
Human Rights Education Associates
Human Rights Education Series: Published by the Human Rights Resource Center at the University of Minnesota in partnership with the Stanley Foundation, the Human Rights Education Series seeks to meet this responsibility by providing resources for the ever-growing body of educators and activists seeking to build a culture of human rights in the United States and throughout the world.
Human Rights Education Series
Human Rights Library: The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library houses one of the largest collections of more than twenty-five thousand core human rights documents, including several hundred human rights treaties and other primary international human rights instruments. The site also provides access to more than four thousands links and a unique search device for multiple human rights sites. This comprehensive research tool is accessed by more than a 175,000 students, scholars, educators, and human rights advocates monthly from over 135 countries around the world. Documents are available in six languages - Arabic, English, French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish.
Human Rights Library
Netherlands Institute of Human Rights: The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) was establishedin 1981. The institute aims to serve as a centre for human rights studies. It conductsand promotesresearch projects, and collects relevant documentation on international human rights issues with an aim to enhance and distribute the knowledge on human rights procedures and practices.
Netherlands Institute of Human Rights
The Open Archives Society: The Open Society Archives (OSA) is an archives and a center for research and education. Its collections and activities relate to the period after the Second World War, mainly the Cold War, the history of the formerly communist countries, human rights, and war crimes.
Open Archives Society
The People’s Movement for Human Rights Education: 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.
People's Movement for Human Rights Education
RightsMaps, headed by Michael Miller, provides geographical services to organizations monitoring human rights. Sample maps on this site are exceptionally useful for teaching about the crisis in Darfur and the Anfal, Iraq's campaign against the Kurds, 1988.
RightsMaps
Joyce Apsel and Helen Fein. Teaching About Genocide. This guide is available for purchase from the American Sociological Association.
Teaching About Genocide
Teaching Human Rights Online: Teaching Human Rights Online seeks to improve ethical reasoning and cross cultural communication for undergraduate students in philosophy, history, political science, psychology, international relations, and women’s studies; professional classes in law, education and business; as well as high school social studies.
Teaching Human Rights Online
The University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies: The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies was established within the College of Liberal Arts and is an Independent Center with its main administrative relationship with the Department of History. Rich in visual resources, teachers resources and comprising of relevant documents on the Armenian Genocide, Afro-Americans, Darfur, the Holocaust, Native Americans and much more. Especially look at their links on educational resources.
The University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
