2008 Conference Resources

These Facing History and Ourselves' Resources touch upon some of the issues related to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the upcoming conference, Hope Critique and Possibility: Universal Rights in Societies of Difference.

Video Clips

• Mary Ann Glendon and Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Kofi Annan and the UN Declaration of Human Rights
• The Legal and Educational Legacies of The Nuremberg Tribunal
• Educating for Human Dignity: Learning to Participate

Study Guides

• Stitching the Truth: Women's Protest Art in Pinochet's Chile
• Totally Unofficial: Raphael Lemkin and the Genocide Convention

Lesson Plans and Units

• Totally Unofficial: Raphael Lemkin and the Genocide Convention: A Series of Three Lessons
• Why is Civil Society Important?: The Arpilleristas in Pinochet's Chile

Facing Today

• Strategies Differ At Two Islamic Schools in England
• A Veil Closes France's Door to Citizenship
• Mapping Diversity
• Remembering the Holocaust: Six Key Lessons
• The Responsibility to Protect