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Know Your Human Rights

MODULE 1 – Introduction to the Course

Topic 1 – What are human rights? They are rights you have just because you are human.

Topic 2 – Rights and Responsibilities.

Topic 3 – Protecting Other People’s Rights

Topic 4 – How did the Universal Declaration come about?

Topic 5 – Human Dignity

MODULE 2: Preamble (Introduction) to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Topic 1: Respect for Human Dignity (Preamble paragraphs 1 and 5, see MODULE 12)

Module 2: Topic 1 Activities

Group or class discussion or essay

Topic 2: Origins and Purpose of the UDHR (Preamble paragraph 2, see MODULE 12)

Quiz questions – Preamble Paragraph 2

Topic 3: Tyranny, Freedom and the Rule of Law (Preamble paragraphs 3 and 4, See MODULE 13)

MODULE 2, TOPIC 3 ACTIVITIES

Quiz questions – Preamble paragraphs 3 and 4

MODULE 2, TOPIC 4 ACTIVITIES

Quiz questions – Preamble paragraphs 6 and 7

Topic 5: Preamble Teaching and Education (Preamble paragraph 8, see MODULE 12)

MODULE 2, TOPIC 5 ACTIVITIES

Quiz Questions – Preamble paragraph 8

END OF MODULE ASSESSMENT

MODULE 3: Personal Safety Rights

Topic 1: Introduction to Personal Safety Rights

Topic 2: Easy Reading UDHR Article 1

Topic 3: Easy Reading UDHR Article 2

Topic 4 – Easy Reading UDHR Article 3

Topic 5 – Easy Reading UDHR Article 4

Topic 6 – Easy Reading UDHR Article 5

Topic 7 – Violence and Abuse

Topic 8 – Rights and Consent

MODULE 3 ACTIVITIES

Quiz question on Personal Safety rights

MODULE 4: Legal Protection or Rule of Law Rights

Topic 1: An Introduction to the Rule of Law

Topic 2: 4 Universal Principles for Maintaining the Rule of Law

Topic 4: Lord Tom Bingham’s Definition of the Rule of Law

Topic 5: Easy Reading Versions of UDHR Articles 6 – 11

Topic 6: Balance of powers and the European Union constitution.

MODULE 4 FURTHER ACTIVITIES

MODULE 5: Identity and Location Rights

Topic 1: An In Introduction to Identity and Location Rights

Topic 2: Privacy and autonomy

Topic 3: Easy Reading Versions of UDHR Articles 12 – 17

MODULE 5 ACTIVITIES

MODULE 6: Personal Space and Activity Rights

Topic 2: Easy Reading Versions of UDHR Articles 18 – 21

Topic 3: The Seven Principles of Behaviour in Public Life

MODULE 6 ACTIVITIES

Topic 1: An Introduction to Personal Space and Activity Rights

MODULE 7: Social Needs and Development Rights

Topic 1: An Introduction to Social Needs and Development Rights

Topic 2: Easy Reading Version of UDHR Articles 22- 27

Topic 3: Benefiting from Advancements in scientific research

MODULE 7 ACTIVITIES

MODULE 8: Bigger Picture Rights

Topic 1: An Introduction to Bigger Picture Rights

Topic 2: Easy Reading Version of Article 28

Topic 3: Review of Human Rights Categories

Topic 4: Easy Reading Versions of Article 29 – 30

MODULE 8 ACTIVITIES

MODULE 9: A 2,740-Year Timeline of Human Rights History

MODULE 10: Protecting Our Rights

Topic 1: The Price of Liberty

Topic 2: Genocide Watch

Topic 3: The 10-Stage Model for Genocide

Topic 4: Transactional Justice?

Topic 5: The Nuremberg Tribunals

Topic 6: Understanding the Nuremberg Code

Topic 7: Protecting Human Rights

Topic 8: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, a play by Bertolt Brecht

Topic 9: La Peste (The Plague) by Albert Camus

MODULE 11: The Seven Principles of Conduct in Public Life

Topic 1: Introduction to Reporting and Resisting Human Rights Violations

Topic 2: Examples of Violations

Topic 3: Remedies

Topic 4: International Human Rights

Topic 5: International Humanitarian Law – The Rules of War

MODULE 12: Reporting Human Rights Violations

MODULE 13: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Original Text

MODULE 14: Resources for Reading and Research

MODULE 3 ACTIVITIES

Know Your Human Rights
MODULE 3: Personal Safety Rights
MODULE 3 ACTIVITIES

Group or class discussion or essay on personal safety rights

How does human dignity connect with personal safety rights?

Quizzes

Quiz question on Personal Safety rights

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