Some useful web links about Human Rights
About Human Rights:
Human Rights Education Association: a short video providing an introduction to Human Rights Education: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahE0tJbvl78
A short history of the evolution of Human Rights from Medieval times: http://rightsinfo.org/infographics/human-rights-101/
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR):
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Documents/UDHR_Translations/eng.pdf
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
UN Business Compact:
https://www.unglobalcompact.org/what-is-gc/mission/principles
For futher consideration of the UN Business Compact, this is a panel discussion of book about its development led by John Ruggie for UN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UjdBGg0Fd0
Human Rights Glossary: https://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/edumat/hreduseries/hereandnow/Part-5/6_glossary.htm
The Rights Respecting Use of the Internet Schools Project
(Click on each link to download)
Appendix 1: The Introductory Script
Appendix 2: Internet Safety Activity Cards (You will need to download each of these sets of cards):
Appendix 3: A Guide to writing a School Charter for the Rights Respecting use of the Internet
Appendix 4: Example of a School Charter for the Rights Respecting use of the Internet
Appendix 5: A Rights Respecting Learning Walk
EU Kids online: http://www.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/research/EUKidsOnline/Home.aspx
Evaluating impact of Human Rights based interventions in Healthcare (2012).
Alice Donald London Metropolitan University and references. http://www.humanrightsinhealthcare.nhs.uk/Library/a-z/Evaluatingtheimpactofhumanrightsinterventions.pdf
Human Rights in a Health Care Setting: Making it Work for Everyone (2012)
Scottish Human Rights Commission
http://www.scottishhumanrights.com/application/resources/documents/SHRCHealthCare.pdf
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
http://www.unodc.org/ropan/en/unodc-and-the-protection-of-human-rights.html
Human Rights Basics
There's lots of ways to start learning about what Human Rights really are - and that's the key phrase, what Human Rights really are, because if there's one thing we know, there's more opportunity out there to learn what they are not than what they are. Misinformation is rife - a quick read through the UK's tabloid press would give the impression that Human Rights are only there to protect foreign criminals from extradtion from the UK and that those who support Human Rights are only 'Left wing Luvvies' (Daily Mail 25 June 2015). To learn about Human Rights, you can click on the links below to find out more:
Human Rights Basics - Declarations and Conventions
These downloads will give you a quick introduction to our thinking and about who we are and what we do
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Human Rights as Global Values |
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Human Rights Education and Human Rights Based Approaches |
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Human Rights for Global Learning |
We are building up the resources and links on these pages to include our our publications and also links to Human Rights and Values sites that will support your journey. What we won't do is give you only one view of a particular issue, because in many cases, there are many different interpretations.