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Feb 20 2017 2:53PM
LGBTI RIGHTS – educating about global dimensions

To celebrate LGBT History Month this February, we have pulled together a list of resources to support educating about the state of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights around the world.

Jan 30 2017 3:06PM
Nine videos to help you talk about women’s human rights in the classroom

By Bashayer Aljaber, Amnesty Speaker Programme Volunteer Short films and videos can be useful conversation starters for teachers, educators, facilitators or anyone wishing to learn more about human rights. Here are some freely...

Jan 30 2017 2:34PM
Seven short videos to introduce human rights in education

By Bashayer Aljaber, Amnesty Speaker Programme Volunteer Short films and videos can be useful conversation starters for teachers, educators, facilitators or anyone wishing to learn more about human rights. 'Human rights education is...

Jan 19 2017 1:25PM
Nine videos to help you talk about the death penalty

By Bashayer Aljaber, Amnesty Speaker Programme Volunteer Short films and videos can be useful conversation starters for teachers, educators, facilitators or anyone wishing to learn more about human rights. Here are some freely...

Oct 14 2016 3:13PM
10 Education resources on FGM

Written by Nora Helal, Education Workshops Volunteer More than 130,000 women and girls living in England and Wales have been cut, and 60,000 girls every year are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM). Despite being made illegal in...

Oct 14 2016 2:59PM
Education resources on forced marriage

Written by Nora Helal, Education Workshops Volunteer One in three girls are married before the age of 18 in the developing world. In fact, across Burkina Faso, more than half of all young girls are married off as children – some as...

Jul 12 2016 3:51PM
Opposing hate crime in the classroom - whether it’s trending or not

By Laura Newlyn, a volunteer on our Speaker Programme I’m suffering from referendum fatigue. I’m fed-up with the back-and-forth arguments and frustrated by the uncertainty of the future. But mostly I’m saddened by the divisions it has...

Jul 1 2016 2:51PM
Moves Like Malala – Mobilising Youth Activists

Written by Laura Newlyn, Amnesty Speaker Programme Volunteer Just last week, I stood among a thousand others in reverent silence on Trafalgar Square. I listened with heart-wrenching awe as Malala Yousafzai, Generation Z poster-child...

Jun 3 2016 5:38PM
Our tips for teaching human rights law

Getting to grips with understanding human rights law can seem somewhat daunting – well, at first glance, that is. You may be thinking "Where do I start?" We may not even recognise when, where and how our human rights are being...

Jun 23 2015 4:11PM
Amnesty Youth Awards: Creativity in the fight for human rights

Written by Dana Anderson, Youth Awards Communications Volunteer A young girl stands tall on the stage and takes a deep breath. Fully covered in a black and blue niqab , she stands out from the crowd of other young people who fill the...

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