Human Rights are: The basic rights and freedoms that all humans are entitled to. They include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.

Read the following link:
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Pair work: 
Along with rights, every citizen and every human being has responsibilities
that come along with these rights.
List 5 responsibilities which are important in your opinion and rank them
(1-the most important and 5 the least important).
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Which 3 rights are the most important in your opinion?

Why are human rights important?

Which human rights are well-respected in your community?

Which human rights are not respected in your community?

To learn more click here (PDF file).

Human Rights Project
Take action - change your community! Decide on a list of things you can do to
promote human rights in your neighborhood.
You can help new immigrants, foreign workers, older citizens, you can write letters
to your municipality or to the goverment.

Work with a friend or in a small group.
Choose one idea to promote human rights:
 

Decide on a plan. What will you do to promote the idea you chose?
  Write your draft here:
First we will Then we will

Tell us about your plan send to the

   
Human Rights and the Media

Together with a friend think of stories you heard in the news which demonstrate
abuse of human rights or on the contrary show kindness and tolerance.
Write one story here:


Look in the following links for stories about human rights issues:
www.timeforkids.com
www.ynetnew.com
www.jpost.com
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/pop
www.usatoday.com
www.washingtonpost.com

What other stories did you find which demonstrate abuse or respect of human rights?

Take Action Online  (Advanced Level)
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement that works to promote all the human rights
 written in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards.

In the following link you will read about a few cases of human rights violations. Click here to read.

Choose one case that you find especially interesting, and send an online letter. Change the offered letter
as much as you can to make it your own.
Send the copy of your letter to the

Links
AMIT Hebrew
AMIT Children's rights
The Media and human rights
AMIT Children's rights - children and work
bbc.co.uk
 human rights, Wikipedia
United Nations, Cyberschoolbus
Association for civil rights in Israel
hrw.org
Amnesty International
Lesson plan:  what are human rights
 

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