Education and learning resources

Daughter Of The Wind is a powerful story about a young girl’s struggle within the constraints of her nomadic society.

Red Leaves is set in an ancient wood in London and tells the story of three young people who seek refuge there.

Voices Of Silence explores themes of privacy, asylum, freedom of thought and expression, and the right to independence.

In The Sea There Are Crocodiles is the true story of an Afghani boy called Enaiatollah Akbari.

The Noughts and Crosses Series is set in a world of prejudice and distrust.

Two Weeks With The Queen is about a twelve-year-old on a quest to find a cure for his ill brother.

This is a heart-tugging saga about love, loss, family, truth, fiction and history such as the AIDS epidemic.

This heartbreaking story takes place during World War II.

Exploring the rights to freedom, equality, asylum, protection by law, food, clothing, housing and health care.

Poems from the Repeat Beat Poet and Mukahang Limbu on the theme of refugees.

Essays on Human Rights Defenders in Hull and East Yorkshire.

Football Welcomes Refugees supports teachers to encourage discussion about refugee rights and to celebrate the contribution that people of refugee backgrounds have made to the UK

Find out who our featured poets are and how to find them on social media.

This resource provides an overview of how Words that Burn plays it's part in human rights

Short films are a useful and fun education resource that can help teachers, educators and facilitators to engage students with their own rights.

In this session, students are encouraged to explore how words can help process feelings of anger and helplessness, building self-empowerment, and supporting social change through poetry about racism, police violence and disability.

Poet Emtithal Mahmoud asks students to ‘bear witness’ to her experiences of genocide in Darfur. Students can then explore poetic responses to war and human rights abuses to understand how poetry can destroy silence and create remembrance.

This session encourages students to explore how everyone has a role to play in upholding human rights in their school, community and wider world, using poetry that acknowledges struggle whilst also recognising the possibility for change.

This session encourages students to look at the subtleties and connotations of language, the impact words have in describing a person or event, and how that influences us.