Amnesty
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Subject Areas
Citizenship,Relevant for
KS3, KS4
Human Rights Resources for Citizenship from Amnesty International
This website offers great teaching resources for the Citizenship programme of study, at Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. Amnesty International provides a wide range of resources for teachers of Citizenship with an angle on human rights issues.
The resources cover some delicate issues in the world today such as asylum, torture, the arms trade and refugees. Such subjects can be sensitive to some students but all the resources made available are adaptable to different age groups. Within the human rights lesson plans, teachers will find materials relating to poverty and discrimination, as well as instigating challenging debates to the students.
There is also a ‘Shared Resources’ section on the webpage that allows teachers to contribute their own resources to the site. This is helpful and only enables more free resources on Citizenship to be made available to other teachers visiting the site. Downloadable resource books, that are also available in the form of PDF files, are available to aid teachers in introducing the issues of human rights to students.
