Resources

Free Lesson Plans

• Amnesty International has a variety of educational resources available.
• Amnesty International – United States – has a selection of film curriculum guides for Human Rights Education.
• Amnesty International – United States - also has lesson plans geared specifically for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• Human Rights Here and Now By the Human Rights Educator’s Network. A complete guide to Human Rights Education for elementary through high school students with lesson plans.
• The United Nations Cyber School Bus has resources for students aged 5-18.
• The United Nations Association of Canada (UNAC))
• UNICEF has a selection of educational resources.
• Youth for Human Rights has short videos and lesson plans on each of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Human Rights Declarations and Conventions

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• French language version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
• The Manitoba Human Rights Code
• The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.
• The Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
• The Declaration of Alma-Ata which expressed the urgent action necessary to promote the health and well-being of global citizens.

Professional Development

• The Human Rights Education Handbook By Nancy Flowers of the Human Rights Resource Center.  A complete handbook to teaching human rights, from ideas and resources for teaching elementary students to workshops for adults.
• Human Rights Internet - A Canadian site with recommendations for teachers, such as textbooks and other resources related to human rights education.
• The People's Movement for Human Rights Education - Dedicated to human rights learning for social and economic change.  Provides excellent explanations of a variety of human rights issues, including: the aged, children, development, disability, discrimination, education, environment, ethnicity, food, health, housing, indigenous peoples, livelihood and land, minorities, peace and disarmament, poverty, race, refugees, religion, sexual orientation, women, work and workers.  Good starting point for teachers looking to explore one or more of these issues.
• The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights supports the World Program for Human Rights Education.
• The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) has Four Pillars of Learning, learning to do, learning to know, learning to live together and learning to be. For more information on UNESCO’s Task Force for education in the 21st century see: (Link)

Aboriginal Resources

• The Manitoba Education document entitled “Integrating Aboriginal Perspectives into Curricula”.
• The Assembly of First Nations Call to Action for Educators
• The Treaty Relations Commission of Manitoba is a neutral body, created through a partnership between the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) and Canada with a mandate to strengthen, rebuild and enhance the Treaty relationship and mutual respect as envisaged by the Treaty Parties. They have a speaker’s bureau which will provide information about Manitoba treaties.
• The Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Center is a resource to help First Nations improve education for all learners to achieve.
• The Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Center is a provincial, non-profit, charitable and education center that works to promote an awareness and understanding of First Nation culture to all Manitobans. They have a library and community connection program.
• The First Nations Voice newspaper of Manitoba.

Mathematics

• Math that Matters by David Stocker is a math book which incorporates math and social justice issues. It is available at a cost at this website.
• Radical Math is a resource for teachers interested in teaching math and social justice. There are many lesson plans available on this website.
• Statistics Canada provides resources to teach about math and social justice.

Poverty

• Amnesty International Poverty Video
• Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba State of the Inner City 2009
  It Takes All Day To Be Poor - This report is available free of charge from the CCPA website at (Link)
• Social Planning Council of Winnipeg 2009 report
• Winnipeg Harvest has a number of resources that include poverty and hunger statistics that can be used to create math lesson plans.

Health

• An Economic Tsunami; The Cost of Diabetes in Canada. A 2009 Report from the Canadian Diabetes Association. Retrieved on December 16, 2009 from: (Link)
• Diabetes Report 2005 Retrieved on December 9, 2009 from: (Link)