Transcript Human Rights

Experience in
Teaching Human
Rights
Susanna Dehler
Swiss Section
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 The
Universal Declaration of Human
Rights ( 1948 )
 Article
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 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
l‘Enseignement des Droits de l‘Homme 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
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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
 Food
and the right to live
 Health
 Economic
development and well-being
 Freedom from discrimination
 Women‘s 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 )
o Action
o A Swiss student‘s exam paper
o The latest news
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Experience in Teaching Human
Rights
Thank you for your attention
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