Human Rights Education
Resources for educators and students about how to defend dignity and equality at home and abroad
The Expert: Hone your activism skills
Take our online seminar for human rights advocacy. This series of 7 short videos, hosted by Human Rights Watch’s children’s rights advocate Jo Becker, will give you an insider’s look at how you can work to bring meaningful change to people’s lives. The videos were made in conjunction with Columbia University. Also, check out Becker’s book, Campaigning for Children.
Our Foundation: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Get involved: What you can do
Learn More: How children’s rights are impacted worldwide
Start a book club
Read, discuss, and share these books on human rights, many written by HRW experts 1. The Courage of Strangers Jeri Laber2. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah
3. Torture: Does It Make Us Safer? Is It Ever OK? Kenneth Roth and Minky Worden, ed.
4. King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa Adam Hochschild
5. Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement Roberta Cohen and Francis M. Deng
6. Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy Kevin Bales
7. The Unraveling: Central African Republic Marcus Bleasdale & Peter Boukcaert
8. The Evolution of International Human Rights Paul Gordon Lauren
9. War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror, and the Struggle for Justice Aryeh Neier
10. A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide Samantha Power
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Start a film club
Invite people over for an evening viewing of these top picks from our International Film Festival 1. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry2. E-TEAM
3. Cartel Land
4. Enemies of the People
5. The Green Wave
6. Jung: In the Land of the Mujaheddin
7. Mediterranea
8. The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court
9. Return to Homs
10. Camp 14: Total Control Zone
11. The First Grader
12. War Witch
Attend Our Annual Film Festival in a City Near You!
