martes, 9 de octubre de 2012

Young Human Rights Reporter Competition


This past year International Amnesty recognized a competition in which more than 3,000 students joined. The topic was the Human Rights, and issues were diverse, for example sexism at schools until aborts in Kenya.

The inscriptions are opened for all those who want to join the year 2013. The students must write news or talk about the Human Rights, on their experience, and so on. For further information please visit: 

www.amnesty.org.uk/youngreporter.

The Guardian Teacher Network has one-hour lesson plan which purpose is learn deeply the human rights. Each day is one article of human rights. The program has two versions: one for younger children and the second is for older students. 

The best entries of 2012 may be a big help for those who wants to enter to the competition. Jack Shenker, amnesty media award-winner, gave an advice saying: “bring your own voice to the story”.

For those who want to start their studying on Universal Declaration of Human Rights may visit this page which explains in an easy way the summary of UDHR.

Martin Powell, an activist interpreted Write for Human Rights. This poem is very useful to learn about human rights. Also Amnesty’s guide may help you to teach controversial issues.

Save the Children has made some films. Stories about life is Syria for example are recommended for older students who wants to learn deeply human rights. Save the Children Untold stories has many stories about the children at Syria’s war and how they did lived it. It has powerful stories but it’s necessary that all those people who wants to use as resource understand it also has many shocking stories of tortures and massacres.

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