'No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.'
Article 5, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment is illegal the UN Convention against Torture. Yet each year Amnesty sheds light on cases of torture across the world. Use our range of resources to explore this issue with your students:
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Lesson plan: Torture
Age: 13+
Cost: FREE
Subjects: Citizenship/PSE/Modern Studies/Sociology
What is torture? Is it ever right to interrogate terrorist suspects using techniques that might be judged to be torture? Students will consider these questions through activities and debate.
Download: English (pdf) | Cymraeg (pdf)
Film: Stuff of Life
Age: Certificate 15
Cost: FREE
Subjects: Citizenship/PSE/Modern Studies/Sociology
This 2 min hard-hitting film has been made by Amnesty to show what waterboarding involves. It can be shown as part of the lesson on Torture (above) with students aged 15 +. We recommend teachers view this film first before showing it.
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Film clip: Freedom From Torture: Burma
Age: 13+
Cost: FREE
Subjects: Citizenship/PSE/Modern Studies
This is a clip from the Amnesty film <Life Study>, in which an artist celebrated the UDHR by creating an artwork inspired by human rights issues in his community. In this scene he watches a student talk on TV about her experiences living in Burma (Myanmar). As a 15-year-old she attended a student protest and was arrested, held without charge, and tortured. Use the film as a starter to stimulate debate or as an introduction to a research project on torture.
Find out more: Background info: Torture (pdf)
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Age: 14+
Cost: FREE
Subjects: Citizenship/PSE/Modern Studies
Torchure highlights the Chinese authorities' clampdown on peaceful protests ahead of the Beijing Olympics in 2008 with cartoon characters competing (and getting into trouble for protesting about human rights). It is one of four Amnesty films for the Human Rights For China campaign.
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Do your students feel passionately about speaking out against torture and other human rights violations?
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