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Lift Off: cross border primary human rights education initiative
Lift Off is a cross-border primary human rights education project in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, which promotes an understanding of human rights issues among primary school children.
Free primary materials prepared by teachers from the Irish National Teacher's Organisation (INTO) and Ulster Teacher's Union (UTU), have been distributed to all schools and are available to order.
The project aims
The principal goals of Lift off are:
- To promote an understanding among primary school children in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland of their rights and responsibilities - as articulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
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- To promote an understanding of human rights and responsibilities among teachers and to develop human rights education as an integral part of the work of primary teachers, especially through the primary teachers' unions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
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- To advise and support schools in developing their human rights education programmes particularly through whole school based approaches.
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