Twelve lesson plans developed with the Ministry of Justice and the British Institute of Human Rights. Encourages students to explore the role of human rights in everyday life. Topics include poverty, discrimination, the UK Human Rights Act and, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Available.

Downloadable activities to accompany the award-winning book We Are All Born Free of thirty beautiful illustrations that interpret our human rights for ages 5+. We Are All Born Free can be ordered from the Amnesty shop .

Amnesty International Literacy and Human Rights Resource. Empower students to take action for current up-to-date human rights issues by writing letters and developing key literacy skills. Resource contains powerpoint, current case study scaffolded reading and writing worksheets, lesson plans and teacher notes. Available in two versions for KS2 and KS3.

Explore the impact of poverty, and the changes needed to ensure everyone’s right to live with dignity with three lessons, an assembly and films about residents of a Kenyan community and their fight for human rights. Lesson 1 Film - Deep Sea: http://vimeo.com/6718856 Lesson 3 film - Nyamalo interview: http://vimeo.com/6719726

A human rights education resource focusing on refugees and asylum. For use with young people aged 11-16 across a range of subject areas or as part of a cross-curricular or drop-down day- updated August 2017.

Activities for one or two lessons exploring trafficking, a modern day slave trade and one of the fastest growing forms of slavery. Explores how traffickers use deception or coercion to take people away from their homes and how victims are then forced into a situation of exploitation, such as forced labour or prostitution.

A beautifully illustrated book for the primary classroom. Bob Graham’s story talks about caring for others with respect, patience and understanding. By using few words, and wonderful drawings, Graham allows children to explore how best to be active citizens and caring individuals in a very busy world. By rescuing a sick bird that no one else has noticed, the main character, Will, finds a way, with his parents’ help, to bring the bird back to good health, giving it its freedom once more.

Two one hour lessons for students to use UN Convention Against Torture definitions to judge which interrogation techniques amount to torture, then consider whether governments should be allowed to interrogate terrorist suspects using these methods.

Session 2 - being me In this session Dean Atta shows there are many ways to be a poet. After reading and discussing his poem I Come From, which raises interesting questions about identity, students collaborate to tell their own stories. About Words that Burn Words That Burn challenges you to take action for human rights through poetry. Using this resource secondary schools can explore human rights through poetry, with 10 free educational resources designed to help students develop their own writing and performance style. This is national project to explore and express human rights through poetry by Amnesty International in partnership with Cheltenham festivals.

Resources to accompany film screenings of Slumdog Millionaire, Blood Diamond, The Kite Runner, Hotel Rwanda, Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, Good and Persepolis including: Blood Diamond (15+) A comprehensive teaching resource including lesson plans, drawings by child soldiers and much more to support an indepth study of the film and the issues it raises. The Kite Runner (12+) Additional companion guide including activities and lessons to engage students in a discussion of complex issues such as ethnic diversity, gender inequality, and the interplay between upper and lower socio-economic and political classes in Afghanistan. Hotel Rwanda (12+) Three lessons and various activities for teachers to use in conjunction with a screening of the film.

Pack of six activities tailored to meet needs of different ages and curicula. Activities demonstrate widespread existence of violence against women, define these forms of violence and show what must be done to prevent it. Please bear in mind that some students may have witnessed or experienced violence against women. You may wish to display contact details for organisations that can offer help and support during your lessons.

Shadow, set partly in Afghanistan, partly at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre in the UK, is the story of Aman, an Afghan boy fleeing the horror of war. Told in his own words, it traces how Aman befriends a western dog which appears outside the caves where he lives with his mother. When Aman and his mother decide to make a bid for freedom, the dog, which Aman has called Shadow, will not leave them. Soon it becomes clear that the destinies of boy and dog are linked.

This resource is designed to be balanced and facilitate open debate and discussion for and against the death penalty for students aged 14+. It includes activities and facts to explore the death penalty. It looks at the arguments in favour and against, and asks how capital punishment has become a human rights issue. Students can also examine the impact of living on death row and consider whether it is fair to sentence children to death. The resource includes an assembly script and debate. It also uses films, case studies and data for young people to write about. Amnesty opposes the use of the death penalty in all cases and for all crimes, whether someone is innocent or guilty. The older version of this pack is also available in Welsh on our website and Arabic.

Set in Bootle, north of Liverpool, the book tells of two refugee brothers from Mongolia who are determined to fit in with their new schoolmates while they apply to remain in the UK. A wonderful friendship develops between the boys and Julie, a Year 6 girl in her last term at primary school. When the boys suddenly disappear one day, Julie struggles to separate truth from fantasy.

Read the Introduction To Using Fiction To Teach Human Rights guide and use our teachers notes to discuss and debate the book 'I Have a Right to be a Child&' by Alain Serres.

This resource enables teachers to explore the human rights of sexual and gender minority groups with primary, secondary and FE students. The pack consists of six activities, a list of useful organisations, a summary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an information sheet on sexual orientation and gender identity and a list of curriculum links. This activity pack can be used with the following resources LGBTI Q&A and Teaching notes for ‘Two weeks with the Queen’ by Morris Gleitzman which can both be found by searching on our website.

Education activities about a group of refugees escaping to freedom.

Read the Introduction To Using Fiction To Teach Human Rights guide and use our teachers notes to discuss and debate the book 'In The Sea There Are Crocodiles&' by Fabio Geda.

Flora Popescu’s parents are planning to defect when daily life suddenly brings frightening changes – some linked to a friendship between Flora and a new boy at school. Unlike his poor classmates, Daniel dresses and eats well, and his father ranks high in the secret police. Flora slowly realises that her father is in danger and only she can save him from the secret police.

A series of activities for one-two lessons to explore conflicting views on the land rights of Traveller groups, with a main activity to explore and try to resolve the issues through role-play and discussion.