Professional development

Human Rights in Focus

The Human Rights in Focus DVD includes three short films about human rights. Developed by Amnesty International UK in 2007, a copy has been sent to every secondary school library in Australia. Download the accompanying curriculum resources and worksheets.

Right Here, Right Now

Right Here, Right Now: teaching citizenship through human rights is a downloadable resource designed for use in citizenship education in years 7-9. It links human rights concepts with everyday experiences and enables teachers to examine human rights issues such as identity and diversity, rights and responsibilities and child poverty.

Romani children drawing flowers in school

Ideas for Human Rights Education

Here are some practical classroom ideas on teaching for human rights. Produced by the LOTE, ESL and Multicultural Education Unit of the Victorian Department of Education and Training.

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Lesson plans

Downloadable lesson plans and resources for teachers on human rights issues.

Get up sign up event around the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Taking action for human rights

These resources have been developed by students at Deakin University's Graduate Diploma of Applied Learning and include information on taking action for human rights and organising an event.

Soldiers in Mongolia signing on to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Human rights - important in anyones language

Amnesty International Australia's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Here is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in different languages.

girl smiling at camera

Refugees’ rights

Are you a teacher looking for ways to engage your students about refugees? This page includes lesson plans and online resources formulated around refugee and asylum seeker's human rights.

Children and their teacher at a community school in the Nahr al Bared Palestinian refugee camp, Tripoli, Lebanon

Links to other resources

Would you like to find out more about human rights education? There are a large number of organisations that provide websites, books, videos and teacher's aids to help you. Find links to some of those resources here.

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