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Title: 2007 Student Conference on Human Rights.
Description: Conference.
The 10th Annual United Nations Student Conference on Human Rights (UNSCHR) will take place 5-7 December 2007. The theme this year is “Recognizing the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.” Students can participate in the Student Conference discussion forums or by watching a live webcast of the student conference at UN Headquarters on 7 December, 2007 and sending text messages to the students’ leaders in NY while it is going on.
Language: English.
Web link: http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/student/2007/about.asp |
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Title: Child Soldiers WebQuest.
Description: Website.
For intermediate and high school students. The Child Soldiers WebQuest is a consensus-building task where students are given practice in communicating their position on this issue in a simulated governmental forum. Woven throughout is an exploration of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocol to the CRC on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict.
Languages: English, Russian.
Web link: http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/childsoldiers/webquest/ |
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Title: Cyberschoolbus.
Description: Website.
The United Nations Cyberschoolbus was created in 1996 as the online education component of the Global Teaching and Learning Project, whose mission is to promote education about international issues and the United Nations. The Global Teaching and Learning Project produces teaching materials and activities designed for students and teachers at primary, intermediate and secondary school level. This project aims at providing both online and print educational resources for an increasingly globalized world.
Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish.
Web link: http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus |
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Title: Ethnic Discrimination.
Description: Online Lesson.
The lesson begins by having students examine their own ethnic backgrounds, the causes and impacts of ethnic conflict around the world, and discuss ways to combat ethnic discrimination at the international, local, and individual levels.
Language: English.
Web link: http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/discrim/ethnicity1.asp |
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Title: Human Rights in Action!
Description: Website.
This site offers a general introduction to human rights, a “plain language version” of the UDHR as well as classroom activities designed to explore human rights in greater depth.
Languages: English, French, Spanish.
Web link: http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/humanrights/index.asp |
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Title: Racial Discrimination.
Description: Online Lesson.
Students reflect on their beliefs about racial differences and the sources of these beliefs, explore some of the causes and impacts of racial discrimination by studying apartheid policies in South Africa and/or the Holocaust in Europe, and discuss ways to combat ethnic discrimination at the international, local, and individual levels.
Language: English.
Web link: http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/discrim/race.asp |
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Title: Rights at Work.
Description: Website.
Developed by the ILO to explore the Declaration on Fundamental Priniciples and Rights at Work. Students can find out what the ILO is doing to support the Declaration, gives an overview of the world of work, examines how items like chocolate, footballs, toys and clothing are produced including the people who make them and the conditions under which they work.
Language: English.
Web link: http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/3PLUSU/index.html |
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Upcoming launches:
Curriculum on the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Nov. 2007)
Curricula on each of the 30 articles of the UDHR (mid-2008) |
