Human Rights
What are Human Rights?
Human rights ensure that all people are treated with dignity and equality. We all have the right to access basic needs such as food, water and shelter. These rights protect us from violence and abuse and work towards the end of ignorance and hatred. No matter what country we live in, who our parents are or what religion we practice, human rights are essential.
They are universal and should never be denied. Human rights are about compassion, understanding and respect.
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Explore the Issue
Freedom from Fear
Everyone in the world has the right to live without fear of violence and war. Yet for so many, it is a daily reality.
Freedom of Expression
Throughout the world, many people face violence and imprisonment as a result of exercising their right to freedom of expression. Everyone should have the right to educate themselves through receiving or sharing information and ideas without fear of persecution.
Gender Equality
According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights all people are born equal regardless of gender, race, religion or age. However women, the world over, experience violations of their human rights ranging from subtle discrimination in some countries to being treated as second-class citizens in others.
Child Rights
Around the world, there are children who are denied their human rights. They are forced to work without hope of an education, they are forced to be child soldiers, or they are abandoned and left to make a life for themselves on the streets.
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Questions about Human Rights
- Do our rights as Canadians differ from those who live in other countries?
- What affects these rights?
- Why do some countries not follow the guidelines of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
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Resources for Grades K-6
Activities
Amandla!
Sing along with a South African song and fill in blank words. Source: Amnesty International
Teaching Children’s Rights Through Art
35 art lessons and activities that explore children’s rights through drawing, photography, sculpture and collage. Source: UNICEF
The Convention on the Rights of the Child
Stop motion animation created by a grade 10 student for elementary students on the UN Convenion on the Rights of the Child. A great introduction. Source: Andre Farstad
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Resources for Grades 7-12
Activities
Where do you stand?
An activity designed to introduce the subject of human rights, as well as the UDHR and other Human Rights instruments and documents. Source: Amnesty International
Teaching Children’s Rights Through Art
35 art lessons and activities that explore children’s rights through drawing, photography, sculpture and collage. Source: UNICEF
Resources
Bullying, Discrimination and Human Rights
Young people have the right to be safe, strong and free. Bullying is the loss of basic human rights.Source: OTF and COPA
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Links to Partner Resource Libraries
Links to more Educational Materials KGG Partner? Country John Humphrey Centre yes Canada
Change for Children yes Canada

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11NGO Partners
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25Act Out the Issue
- A Play to Play - North Haven’s 50 Gifts for 50 Years of Love and Learning
- Bully Busters
- Child Power - North Haven’s 50 Gifts for 50 Years of Love and Learning
- Death of the First First Nations
- Helping Hands
- Kids Go Global - Closing The Gender Gap - Valley Creek School
- Kids Go Global - Community Helpers are Super Heroes - Rundle School
- Kids Go Global - Education is Love, Education is Life - Connaught Community School
- Kids Go Global - Feed the World - Capitol Hill School
- Kids Go Global - From Dictatorship to Democracy - Rundle School
- Kids Go Global - Heal the Homeless - Capitol Hill School
- Kids Go Global - Heavy Baggage - Valley Creek School
- Kids Go Global - McKenzie Towne School - Home is Where We Belong
- Kids Go Global - McKenzie Towne School - How the Homeless Survive
- Kids Go Global - Paper Thin - Valley Creek School
- Kids Go Global - Suffering Children; How Can We Help - Rundle School
- Kids Go Global - The Flipsters in M.I. Bazaar - Rundle School
- Kids Go Global - Water You Thinking - Valley Creek School
- Our God is the Only God; Our God is One
- Raise Your Voice - North Haven’s 50 Gifts for 50 Years of Love and Learning
- The Kids Go Global Experience
- Wake Up!
- We Are NOT For Sale
- We Art Not a Category
- We Were Forced to do This