Human Rights Lessons from UConn

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Here are a series of lessons that are available from clicking the link with the lesson below.  You can also obtain them from https://teachinghumanrights.uconn.edu/browse-all-lesson-plans/

Since teaching HRE can sometimes be seen as controversial, teachers may find the following reading materials to be useful:

Human Rights 101 offers an overview of human rights intended for a one-day or two-day reading and discussion for any interested class. It may be downloaded and distributed without cost to faculty or students.

Facing State Violence: Truth, Justice, and Healing: Reader compiled in conjunction with an interdisciplinary conference held at Pacific School of Religion on November 17, 2007.

Radical Teacher 103 (2015): Volume on the “Radical Teaching about Human Rights” with theoretical and practical insights into the teaching of different human rights issues and documents.