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Experience in Teaching Human Rights

Experience in Teaching Human Rights. Susanna Dehler Swiss Section. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( 1948 ) Article 3 Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. Human Rights Training: The 19th International Training Session on Human Rights and Peace Training

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Experience in Teaching Human Rights

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  1. Experience in Teaching Human Rights Susanna Dehler Swiss Section

  2. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( 1948 ) • Article 3 • Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person

  3. Human Rights Training: • The 19th International Training Session on Human Rights and Peace Training • Organized by CIFEDHOP (Centre International de Formation à l‘Enseignement des Droits de l‘Homme et de la Paix) in the Canton of Geneva from July 8 – 14, 2001

  4. 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

  5. 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 • …

  6. 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

  7. 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 )

  8. 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…

  9. 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 • Women‘s rights • Minority rights

  10. 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

  11. 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 • …

  12. Other Ideas for working with HR • The UN brochures about Human RightsEducation and Human Rights Treaties • Booklets The UN in Our Daily Lives and Tell me About the United Nations, with the preface by Kofi Annan

  13. 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

  14. A Special Experience with Literature • Waris Dirie, Desert Flower • Implications: FGM ( Female Genital Mutilation ) • Action • A Swiss student‘s exam paper • The latest news

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  16. Experience in Teaching Human Rights Thank you for your attention

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