Editor's Note: Overview
We are pleased to present this issue of The Fourth R, with its
focus on working for children's rights. Some of you who have been receiving
this publication since its early days may remember a previous issue (Winter,
1989) on the topic of children's rights. Later that year, the Convention
on the Rights of The Child was presented to the U.N. General Assembly,
and since has been ratified by more nations of the world than any other
international treaty. This issue includes articles about people of all
ages working on behalf of The rights of children as well as educational
activities designed to promote learning about rights.
On page 14, please find an announcement of educational resources created
hy and cr available from Amnesty international USA. We are always eager
to receive your feedback and, in the case of the Resource Notebooks and
The Fourth R, your contributions. If you have developed lessons
or other educational activities for any age level, we would be happy to
consider them for inclusion in an appropriate Notebook or future Fourth
R. Contact any Steering Committee member (see p. 15) with your ideas, comments,
or questions.
Thank you for your patience while we readjust our publication to a Fall-Spring
schedule. After much discussion, we concluded that it would be especially
useful for educators to receive The Fourth R when school begins
in the Fall. And, since Amnesty international USA's Annual General Meeting
(AGM) will now take place in the Spring, we will have the next issue ready
for the AGM and for educators who are looking for new ideas on teaching
human rights before the end of the school year
Janet Schmidt
Editor