Human Rights Education: The 4th R
Get Up, Stand Up! Celebrating 50 years
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
vol. 8, No. 2, Fall 1997.

AIUSA Resources


Human Rights Education Resource Notebooks

• Children’s Rights • Conflict Resolution and Peace • Death Penalty • Economic Rights • Gay and Lesbian Rights • HRE in College Classrooms • Indigenous Peoples’ Rights • Race, Religion, and Ethnicity • Teaching Human Rights through Literature • Teaching Young Children about Human Rights • Women’s Rights

HRE Resource Notebook Introductory Packets: Introducing Human Rights in the Elementary School, Introducing Human Rights in the Middle School, and Introducing Human Rights in the High School.

Order resource notebooks from HRUSA Resource Center: 1–888–HREDUC8.


Curriculum Guides

The Uprooted: Refugees and the United States, A Multidisciplinary Teaching Guide by David M. Donahue and Nancy Flowers with the Amnesty International Human Rights Education Steering Committee.

Human Rights for Children by the Amnesty International Human Rights for Children Committee, with illustrations by Marsha Sinetar.

Ordering information: both curriculum guides are available from

Hunter House Inc. Publishers, P.O. Box 2914, Alameda, CA 94501
phone: 1–800–266-5592.


Books, CD-ROM, Video, Newsletter

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Adaptation for Children • Amnesty International Annual Reports • Amnesty Interactive CD-ROM • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Animated Video • Human Rights in Plain Language

Order from: AIUSA Publications, 322 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10001
voice: 212–807–8400, fax:212–627–1451.

Forsaken Cries: The Story of Rwanda (video) and Educating for Action (accompanying educational packet/study guide has background materials and activities for high school, college, and community settings).

Order from the distributor: The Video Project, 200 Estates Drive, Ben Lomond, CA 95005.
Francesca Wright, Marketing Director: phone: 408–336–0160, fax: 408–336–2168.


The Human Rights Education Team at Amnesty’s International Secretariat is launching a human rights education newsletter for AI members around the world. HRE is available by request only.

Order from: Vienna Colucci, AIUSA Midwest Office, 53 W. Jackson, Suite 1162, Chicago, IL 60604 phone: 312–435–6338, fax: 312–427–2589.

AIUSAhuman Rights Education on the Web: http://www.amnesty-usa.org/education/



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