Human Rights Day 2010 (December 10, 2010 Newsletter)
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Celebrating Human Rights Day
The theme for Human Rights Day 2010 is Speak up – Stop Discrimination. What better way to end discrimination than to educate? Let’s use this day as a reminder of the need to raise awareness about human rights through education, and to promote respect, dignity and diversity in our classrooms and communities.
To help guide your promotion of human rights, Teachers Without Borders has developed a podcast series exploring human rights education. While many international treaties, declarations, and conventions on human rights exist, they are seldom read and not easily enforced. Human rights education aims to inform people about these documents, but also to integrate their principles into daily life, in schools, communities, countries and beyond.
We recommend that you listen to these podcasts, and get inspired by the ideas and practices of the human rights educators interviewed.
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