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31 March 2010


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Enter our competition!

You could be Secondary/post primary Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year!

For a chance to win you need to write between 200-250 words on a human rights issue and send it to us via our Be a reporter section. 

Make sure you put "Amnesty competition" as the headline for your article (you can add your own headline in the text of your article). Also be sure to include your full name, age, school and school address and postcode at the end of your article so we can get in contact with your school if you are shortlisted.

Don't worry, we won't publish your full name on the learnnewsdesk or anywhere else without your parent/guardian's permission.

The first thing your should do is check out the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR for short). Click here for a summary version of the UDHR.

Now think about what you want to write. Do you have a personal human rights story to tell?

Maybe you want to write a story about a specific case of human rights being broken, or about a human rights campaign you know something about.

If you haven't got any ideas straight away then look at some links in Find out more. You'll find lots of fuel for thought.

We can't wait to read your entries so get writing! For more details on the competition click here.

Remember your teacher or parent/guardian must read our terms and conditions before you enter the competition. Click here to view them.

Amnesty logo

Fighting for human rights... Amnesty International's logo is a flame of hope among the barbed wire

Picture: Amnesty International

Find out more

How to enter

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Terms and conditions of the competition

www.learnnewsdesk.co.uk

Universal Declaration of human rights

http://www.amnesty.ie/amnesty/

Amnesty education pages

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/cont

Video about schools who taking action for human rights

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/cont

The United Nations Cyberschoolbus is a website about global issues and the UN

http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSc

An interactive website from Oxfam UK exploring children's stories and Oxfam's work around the world

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolpl

Ayiti is a role-playing video game from UNICEF UK in which the player assumes the roles of family members living in rural Haiti. The main issue looked at is poverty and human rights

www.unicef.org

This website from Christian Aid includes educational games on human rights issues and stories from around the world that show how children are helping to end poverty in their communities

www.globalgang.org

This website has been created specifically for young people in Northern Ireland. It allows young people to explore global citizenship issues and to make the connections between the local and the global

http://www.bigpic.biz

UNICEF UK's TAGD website focuses on children's rights issues

http://www.unicef.org.uk/youth

J8 is the official youth summit of the G8 and an education programme providing information about issues on the G8 agenda

http://www.j8summit.com/

Learnnewsdesk lesson pack on Human Rights Day

http://www.learnnewsdesk.co.uk

NICCY: Make it Right campaign - Children's rights

www.niccy.org

NICCY: Make it Right campaign

www.niccy.org

Excellent teaching resources for 10 Human Rights lessons

www.liftoffschools.com

Teachers' notes

Secondary lesson objectives

  • that human rights play a part in everyday life
  • that every human being is entitled to certain basic rights
  • that not all countries recognise human rights in the same way
  • that specific rights may not be respected in some communities
  • that people may be denied their rights, and that this can result in them becoming refugees
  • about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Secondary curriculum links

Citizenship Unit 03: Human rights
Section 2: What are human rights?
Section 3: What happens when human rights are denied?

Glossary

Amnesty International an organisation that campaigns for human rights - it helps people whose human rights have been denied get justice

Exclusive limited, not many made

Human rights a list of rights for all humans that most countries in the world have signed up to under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (or UDHR for short)

Interpretation how you read or understand something

Refugee someone who has been forced to leave their home to seek safety somewhere else because something bad has happened, for example a disaster or threat

Showcased put on show, exhibited

VIP stands for Very Important Person

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