Human Rights Day
Saturday is Human Rights Day! From Human Rights Day 2022 | OHCHR , “Every year on 10 December, the world celebrates Human Rights Day , the very day when, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). ” While you won’t be at school on Saturday, you can still have your students learn about Human Rights Day. I would start by asking my students what they know about human rights. Let students reflect and share out, and then share this definition (or modify it to make it work best for your students): Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world, from birth until death. I’ve paraphrased for students that human rights are the things that every human being is entitled to have. Next, I would ask students what rights they think are the most important. They can make lists in small groups and compile