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Partners in Human Rights Education
FIRST STEPS:
A Manual for Starting Human Rights Education
This manual is for teachers and others who work with young people
and who want to introduce human rights in their educational practices.
It is designed to be a basic introduction, with age-specific activities for
younger and older children. There is also advice on methodology, and help
for those who want to go further into this subject. The approach stresses
the practical rather than theoretical.
The manual was written in response to a need expressed by Amnesty International
members and other Human Rights Education activists in the region of Central and
Eastern Europe. The material has therefore been adapted or specially written for this
region. Please bear this in mind if you use the activities in another region.
It could not have been written and produced without the hard work of
Nick Wilson and Branka Emer i .
Valuable comments were made by Felisa Tibbitts, Nancy Flowers, Hugh Starkey,
Jana Kvie inska, Corina Leca and Jana Ondra kova. Kerry Howard, Ulrike
Zimmermann and Anna Henry typed much of the text. Special thanks are due for
some activities to the Citizenship Foundation, William Kriedler and Thomas Lickona.
You are encouraged to photocopy, translate and adapt this text for your own use.
If you live in Europe, please check with the Amnesty International Europe
Program Regional Development Team at the address below before translating passages
which might already be available in your language, and send a copy of your
completed translation/adaptation to the Team, who can also supply you with more
copies in English.
Enquiries about the content of the manual and its use outside Europe
should be addressed to:
Human Rights Education Team
mnesty International International Secretariat
1 Easton St, London WC1X 8DJ
United Kingdom
London, August 1996
Amnesty International Index Number: POL 32/04/95
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Part One: First Steps