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UDHR Infographic

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948. It states the basic rights and freedoms to which all people are entitled.

Last Updated: June 30, 2022

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English — US

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History
Social Studies

Human & Civil Rights

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Facing History and Ourselves

Lesson

Students explore the strategies, risks, and historical significance of the 1963 Chicago school boycott, while also considering bigger-picture questions about social progress.

Crowd fills LaSalle Street between City Hall and building housing Board of Education as hundreds of demonstrators marched in Chicago on Oct. 22, 1963 following a one-day boycott of public schools.

Mini-Unit

Lessons and resources help you explore the sanitation workers’ strike and other events that brought Dr. King to Memphis in the spring of 1968. This lesson is part of our partnership with the National Civil Rights Museum's MLK50 initiative.

Photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. marching arm in arm with a crowd of men participating in the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Worker's Strike.

Mini-Lesson

Help students understand what human rights are and how people are working to promote them.

Classroom for Displaced Girls in Afghanistan

Mini-Lesson

This mini-lesson helps students define the term, learn what forms reparations can take, and consider what reparations should be offered for slavery and other racist policies.

Mini-Lesson

This mini-lesson provides an overview of the ERA and a look at the history behind the struggle to ratify the amendment that would formally guarantee women equal rights to men under the US Constitution.

Black and white photo of women's rights protestors.

Lesson

Students consider what it means to be free by learning about the choices and aspirations of freedpeople immediately after Emancipation.

Black students standing outside in front of a clapboard school house

Mini-Lesson

This mini-lesson invites students to synthesize their learning about the causes of racial injustice in policing and reflect on the implications these causes have on the individual and collective choices we make today.

Black and white image of time for change protestor.

Mini-Lesson

This mini-lesson prepares students to engage in conversations about policing and racial injustice by inviting them to co-create class norms and reflect on the emotions and experiences they and their classmates bring.

Photo of students seated in a classroom.

Lesson

This lesson provides students with an opportunity to reflect on the relationship between statues and the UK’s colonial past.

Mini-Lesson

Help students understand how the United States’ complex asylum process works. Invite them to consider the question, who has an obligation to asylum seekers?

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In this Mini-Lesson, students reflect on stories of migration and learn about migration from El Salvador to the United States as a means of exploring the underlying factors that drive migration.

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Help students understand the Chinese government’s violations of Uighur people’s human rights, hear the voice of a young Uighur woman, and consider the international community's response.

Two ethnic Uighur women pass Chinese paramilitary policemen

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Subject

You might also be interested in…

10 Questions for the Past: The 1963 Chicago Public Schools Boycott

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Human Rights in the News

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