Teach about human rights in your classroom with these great resources!

• Discover Human Rights Toolkits - Free toolkits on teaching about human rights issues in the U.S. with lesson plans, facts sheets, quizzes, and more!
• Energy of a Nation - Free interactive curriculum that looks at immigration through a human rights lens.
• The Road to Peace -  Lesson plans, role plays, and case studies on conflict resolution and restoration of justice in the aftermath of war. 
• More Curricula and Lesson Plans - Other recommended curricula and lesson plans for teaching about human rights.
• Human Rights Web Links - Human rights links listed by issue area. 
• Human Rights Calendar - Celebrate a different human rights issue every month.
• Framework for Human Rights Education  - A comprehensive developmental and conceptual framework for HRE based on competencies at different grade levels.

Rights Sites Newsletters Free quarterly newsletter for teachers who want to bring human rights into their classroom. To sign up to receive Rights Sites News email: efarell@advrights.org.

Click here to view all past Rights Sites Newsletters.

Take Action Resources and ideas on how to get your students involved in taking action on human rights issues.

• Students as Human Rights Activists
• Take Action Ideas for Students
• Take Action Guides
• Youth Appropriate Web Resources

Human Rights Presentations Innovative lectures, workshops, and artistic presentations for you and your students.

• Moving Lives - Immigrant artists tell their own stories, share their artwork, and facilitate dialogue on human rights issues in your classroom
• Speakers Bureau - Tailored lectures and workshops for students and teachers on various human rights issues

Professional Development for Teachers Professional development courses, workshops and seminars for K-12 teachers.

• Human Rights Education Training - In-depth training for educators and school administrators on how to bring human rights education (HRE) into the classroom.
• Continuing Education Units - CEUs tailored to your professional developments needs on a full spectrum of topics related to human rights including service-learning, diversity, peace education, global perspectives, and more.  The Advocates also offers CEUs through our conferences and lecture series. To check out our upcoming events click here.

Human Rights Books Books are a great way to teach about human rights!  Here are few book lists to get you started.

• Advanced English Language Learner Books
• Equality and Tolerance Promotion Books
• Culturally-Specific Books
• Peace and Justice Books
• The Human Rights and Peace Store  -  a unique online store that offers more than 400 different human rights resources for people of all ages.

Human Rights Films Films are a powerful and engaging way to bring human rights into the classroom. 

• Amnesty International - a selection of resources that cover both Hollywood blockbusters and films made especially for schools.
• The Human Rights Video Project - a national library project created to increase the public's awareness of human rights issues through the medium of documentary films.
• The Hub - WITNESS' new video community for human rights, where you can upload, watch and share videos about human rights - and take action to help end human rights abuses.
• Plan USA -  Their film library includes films were written, directed and produced by the children in different parts of the world. Several of the films have won awards for their insight and honesty about sensitive topics such as child abuse, early marriage, the life of street children, HIV/AIDS and child labor.
• The New Heroes - a PBS four-hour series, hosted by Robert Redford, which tells the dramatic stories of twelve social entrepreneurs who bring innovative, empowering solutions to the most intractable social problems around the world.  Includes classroom materials written for students in grades 6-12 to deepen their understanding of the world and related social issues.