Material Resources

This is My Home - A Minnesota Human Rights Education Experience

New! Close the Gap Video and Curriculum Resources!

The 5-part Close the Gap documentary series on race, class, and place disparities was created by the Twin Cities Public television (tpt) in close partnership with the Itasca Project and Twin Cities Compass & Wilder Research. The University of Minnesota Human Rights Center designed two companion guides to foster dialogue on ways to recognize and eliminate these race, class, and place disparities in our schools and communities.
 
The Educator Guide provides curriculum resources for engaging youth in grades 8-12.

The Community Guide offers key discussion activities for Human Rights Commissioners, community leaders, and other interested individuals to better understand these disparities and their causes, as well as to work to overcome them.

The Human Rights Education Series:
Resources for the ever growing body of educators and activists seeking to build a culture of human rights in the U.S. and abroad. The Series is published by the Human Rights Resource Center with different partners for each topic book.

• Foundation Volume: Human Rights Here and Now
• Topic Book 1: Economic and Social Justice: A Human Rights Perspective (also available in .pdf - 446k*)
• Topic Book 2: Raising Children With Roots, Rights & Responsibilities: Celebrating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (also available in .pdf - 669k*)
• Topic Book 3: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights: A Human Rights Perspective
• Topic Book 4: The Human Rights Education Handbook: Effective Practices for Learning, Action, & Change (also available in .pdf - 852k*)
• Topic Book 5: Lifting the Spirit: Human Rights and the Freedom of Religion or Belief (also available in .pdf - 1,669k*)
• Topic Book 6: Human Rights. YES! Action and Advocacy on the
  Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Featured Activities

• All Activities from HRRC Publications
• Take the Human Rights Temperature of Your School.
• Human Rights Squares
• Beyond September 11:
  • Human Rights through the Art of Storytelling
  • Identity and Society
  • Media Literacy in a Post 9/11 World
  • Remembering 9/11/02: Ideas for the School Community
• Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights Project

Other Online Materials:

• Witness to Barbarism by Horace R. Hansen, chief prosecutor at the Dachau Concentration Camp. He prosecuted Nazis and witnessed other war crimes trials.
• Becoming Human: The Origins and Development of Women's Human Rights by Arvonne S. Fraser

Center for Economic Conversion

• Sustainable Economics Curriculum: A supplementary curriculum for high school economics courses

HuRights Osaka

• Human Rights Lesson Plans for Southeast Asian Schools (PDF - 1.9MB)

International Human Rights Internship Program

• Circle of Rights - Economic, Social & Cultural Rights Activism: A Training Resource
• Circle of Rights - French Edition
• Ripple in Still Water - Reflections by Activists on Local- and National-Level Work on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Centers for Human Rights Research, Training and Education

Education and HRE Evaluation & Studies

Lessons/Syllabi/Manuals
Courses, lessons, training manuals, newsletters and research guides

Human Rights Resource Center Partners

Off-Site Education, Curricula, and Teaching Materials

Topic Guides

Search for Human Rights Documents

• Search from the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
• Other Document Resource Centers

The Human Rights and Peace Store
The Human Rights Education Series and various other Human Rights education materials are available for sale from our online collection.

Human Rights Presentations- in Power Point and PDF- NEW!

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