Lesson Plan: Human Rights
Lesson Plan: Human Rights
Topic: Key Topics and Contemporary Issues: Human Rights | |
Week #: 11 | Estimated Time: 150-180 minutes |
Assigned Readings:
Total page count: 28 plus 1 online text (36 pages if all printed) Online documentary, option a: approximately 55 minutes Online documentary, option b or option c: approximately 1 hour, 55 minutes
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Learning Objectives: By the end of this lesson plan, students will be able to:
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Misconceptions of Topic:
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Lesson Component | Ancillary(ies) |
Lecture: Review learning objectives | Lecture slides |
Lecture and discussion: What are human rights? How has the international community sought to protect human rights legally? | Readings 1 and 2 Lecture slides
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Think-Pair-Share: UDHR | Reading 2 Lecture slides |
Lecture and discussion: How has the international community sought to protect human rights institutionally?
| Reading 1 Lecture slides |
Activity: Responsibility to Protect (R2P)--comparing Libya and Syria | Readings 1 and 3 Worksheet 1
The full resolution used in worksheet 1 is available online at https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/generalassembly/docs/globalcompact/A_RES_60_1.pdf
Optional documentary about Syria:
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Lecture and discussion: Given that human rights violations continue to occur, what tools does the international community use in response?
| Reading 1 Documentary (resource 4) Lecture slides
Current data on UN peacekeeping operations is available online at |
Lecture, online video, and discussion: Evaluating UN operations--Why is protecting people so difficult? | Readings 1 and 3 Worksheet 2 Lecture slides
Online video resource (approximately 5 minutes, from 7:27-12:33): Frontline. 2018. “UN Sex Abuse Scandal.” PBS documentary. Available online at https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/un-sex-abuse-scandal/. |
Lecture and discussion: Given that human rights violations continue to occur, what tools does the international community use in response?
| Reading 1 Lecture slides |
Conclude and wrap-up | Lecture slides |