SESSIONS

1. WHAT ARE HUMAN RIGHTS?
2. THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD: INTRODUCTION
3. THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD: REAL STORIES
4. YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT

• Vocabulary on human rights
• United Nations
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Names of different countries
• Human Rights Day
• Unfair treatment and discrimination
• Rights of the children (Convention on the Rights of the Child)
• Rights vs responsibilities
• Violation of children’s rights
• Child soldiers, child workers and street children

• Finding specific information on websites
• Reading for specific information
• Matching photos and texts
• Cut-and-paste exercise
• Speaking about the rights of the children
• Matching newspaper headlines with CRC (Convention on the Rights of the Child) articles
• Recognising true and false statements
• Writing their opinions
• Reciprocal dictation of a short text
• Writing a short diary imagining they are somebody else
• Working on projects in group work: designing a class-tile wall, a poster
• Working with photographs
• Taking decisions in a group

• Respect for human rights
• Justice, human dignity and well being of all people
• Comparison between our lives and the lives of other children in the world and appreciation of our lives here
• Respect and no discrimination on the grounds of the things that make us different (colour, race, ethnic or national origin, sex, sexual orientation
• Acceptance of rights and responsibilities
• Working in groups, reaching agreements, respect for other classmates’ opinions

1. To know about the human rights and list some of them
2. To use the internet to do some research
3. To write about the United Nations Organisation
4. To realise that there are some parts in the world where human rights are not respected
5. To give examples of places where human rights are not respected
6. To give examples of people they know whose rights have not been or are not respected
7. To learn about rights and responsibilities
8. To be aware that in some parts of the world even children’s rights are not respected because of their vulnerability
9. To learn about the Convention on the Rights of the Child
10. To know that there are different ways in which children’s rights may be seriously violated
11. To understand there are many problems associated with children being abused like bad health, poor education, parents’ carelessness, etc
12. To learn about child soldiers, child workers and street children
13. To present to the class group their projects about human rights and the rights of the children

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