These resources offer sensitive entry points to confront troubling violence, bigotry and hate, including terrorism, genocide, and attacks on human rights.
These resources offer sensitive entry points to confront troubling violence, bigotry and hate, including terrorism, genocide, and attacks on human rights.
Students create a definition for a "right" in order to explore the challenges faced by the UN Commission on Human Rights to create an international framework of rights for all human beings.
Students learn about two millennia of LGBTQ history and reflect on how that history is represented in their textbooks and curricula.
Students learn about two millennia of LGBTQ history and reflect on how that history is represented in their textbooks and curricula.
Students analyse four rights in the UDHR and decide whether they are universal and enjoyed by all in the world today.
Students place this ongoing crisis in historical context, view footage from a refugee camp, and reflect on survivor testimony.
Students use videos and readings featuring US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power to develop a historical and human understanding of today’s global refugee crisis.
Read Eleanor Roosevelt's reflections on her visit to the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp, ten months after Nazi concentration camps were liberated.
Immigration lawyer Hope Frye describes the conditions at child migrant detention centers in her congressional hearing testimony.
Eleanor Roosevelt writes about the importance of equal opportunities and economic security for the strength of a democracy.
Examine the historical context leading up to the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and understand how Eleanor Roosevelt became involved in the process.