Our online human rights education library is a curated, resource-rich collection of HRE materials for K-12 educators.
Our library includes curriculum, lesson plans, documents, manuals, articles, books, and more. Whether you are seasoned veteran or just getting started, you can be sure to find something useful and relevant to enhance your HRE learning and practice.
Not sure where to begin? Check out Getting Started in Human Rights Education for all the basics on what to teach, how to teach, making connections, resources for program design and implementation, and comprehensive curriculum materials.
HRE USA’s Curriculum Integration Guide provides model lessons to help social studies and other educators implement human rights in their curriculum. Each lesson is tied to Common Core curriculum standards and contains suggested modifications for ESL populations and classified students, as well as suggestions regarding how each lesson supports literacy development.
Also see our news updates for the latest in human rights education materials and resources.
HRE USA offers these human rights education materials based on the following criteria:
- Overall usefulness, relevance, and quality;
- Relates directly to human rights documents and principles;
- Reflects methodologies appropriate to human rights education;
- Offers a variety of approaches, subject areas, and age levels;
- Is easy to access;
- Originates from a transparent source.
Teaching About Conflict, in Times of Conflict
To support educators, students, and organizations teaching about current global conflicts, HRE USA is in the process of vetting relevant curricula. We invite educators to submit human rights education resources to be considered for the forthcoming and/or existing HRE USA collections: Form Link
While this process is underway, we offer the following tips, consistent with HRE USA’s Guiding Principles and Values, believing that teaching about, through, and for human rights is transformative.
The following practices encourage respectful discourse:
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Establish agreed-upon norms for dialogue as a group;
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Use an inquiry-based approach to analyze local and global conflicts;
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Provide context for long-standing issues and their inherent complexities;
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Teach the principles of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the Geneva Conventions;
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Facilitate the development of informed conclusions.
Resources related to more complex topics such as Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law including the Geneva Conventions and the Nuremberg Principles will also be available among the curated list of resources at hreusa.org.
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