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Make Your School Human Rights Friendly
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 3 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
- Ways to explain the importance of fostering a school environment that is human rights friendly
- How to assess the human rights friendliness of your own school environment
- Practical stepsyou can take to make your school more human rights friendly
- How to design initiatives for advancing knowledge of and respect for human rights in your school
- How to advocate for a whole-school approach to strengthening a culture of human rights in your school
- How to apply strategies for gaining supporters inside and outside your school
Prerequisite
Instructors
Amnesty International
Human Rights Education
Amnesty International
Editor
Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty and AI) is a non-governmental organisation focused on human rights with over 7 million members and supporters around the world. The stated objective of the organisation is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."
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