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Human Rights today: Discussing the issues, Accepting the Challenge is a curriculum resource developed for use by teachers and students in years 9 and 10. Developed by Curriculum Corporation for Amnesty International, Human Rights today is designed to be used in Humanities/Social Science, History, Geography, Health, Civics and Citizenship Education, Religious Education and Values Education.
Authors: Robert Baker, Beth Gilligan, Kathleen Gordon, Brian Hoepper.
Each chapter in Human Rights Today is outlined below.
Download the full sample chapter: Tuning in to human rights
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Children rely on their families and other adults for their needs for survival and protection, and for reaching their full potential. They can be more vulnerable than adults in situations where human rights are abused, and they usually lack a voice in decision-making. Education is a fundamental right for children as it provides them with opportunities to reach their potential and break out of poverty. Around the world millions of children miss out on education as they are trapped working, often in dangerous situations, because their families are poor and their countries are unable to enforce laws to protect them.
This chapter explores the right to education, types of work children do, reasons why they work and some of the difficulties in addressing these issues and protecting children's rights.
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Indigenous peoples globally face unequal access to justice and government services, as well as the loss of their identity as a result of policies designed to assimilate them by destroying their culture. In Australia the dispossession of Aboriginal Australians from their land and resources has contributed to their impoverishment and ill-health. From 1900 to 1969, Australian Aboriginal children were removed from their families to assimilate them into the white way of life. This chapter explores how this experience of forced assimilation has affected many Indigenous people's lives and some of the efforts to redress this historic abuse of their human rights.
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This chapter explores discrimination against women and girls and addresses political, cultural, social and economic dimensions to this issue. It includes a focus political and civil rights for women, and on women in the economy. It addresses an extreme form that discrimination can take: violence against women and girls, given how widespread it is and how much it has been ignored. The chapter explores how discrimination can be challenged and overcome.
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"Conflict" includes conventional war, rebellion against an occupying power or dictatorship, clashes between ethnic groups, terrorism, and the responses to terrorist attacks. In each situation, governments, communities or individuals see others as a threat and take action to protect themselves.
These are situations in which human rights often come under pressure. Words may be censored, movement restricted and people imprisoned without a fair trial. Torture is one of the extreme human rights abuses that can occur in conflict situations.
This chapter explores how fundamental human rights can both be threatened and defended in times of conflict.
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This chapter explores how students can make a difference and includes ideas for what they can do, including:
You will find ideas, guidelines and an example to indicate what students can do for each of these forms of taking action
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