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Why are rights important? This resource will help your class to think about the place of rights in their own lives, and see how young people from around the world are claiming theirs.
Useful for exploring issues such as equality, the right to education, and the balance between rights and responsibilities, the activities also use case study material from South Africa, Lebanon, and Ethiopia.
Supporting material about rights across the world.
Pupils will decide what rights they would set up on a new planet.
Exploring the differences between different rights charters.
Develops understanding that rights need to be safeguarded.
Resolving conflicts between rights.
Examining everyone's right to an equal, non-racist, non-sexist education.
Help pupils to understand what it's like to suffer discrimination.
Exploring how legal rights come into being.
Encourages pupils to think about what makes 'good' education.
Gives pupils the chance to plan actions they might take on rights issues.
Evaluating actions in terms of their consequences.
An alternative to lesson 10 that allows pupils to select possible actions.
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