A Human Rights Classroom Activity
For many people, the term "human rights" sounds gloomy and depressing (kurai in Japanese). To offset this, human rights educators have designed a number of classroom activities that engage students with human rights in positive ways through games which include student interests from the world of pop culture (eg movies and songs). Here, we present a revised version of one such activity "Human Rights Squares , adapted from Teaching Human Rights by David Shiman (reference page 14). Try this in your class and let us know how it goes!