Toolkit - Our activities

The Human Rights Academy has been teaching young people, teachers, minorities, persons with disability and activists in Norway and Europe for years. In the TOOLKIT you will find our best activities, providing you with endless possibilities to put together your own program!

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Human rights and the environment

Human rights and the environment

Activity: Disability and identity. Illustration of a variety of people with disabilities

Disability and identity

Disability rights

Timeline: Climate and human rights

Timeline: Climate and human rights

Human rights • Human rights and the environment

Activity: Minority, majority and minority stress. Image: Four women holding a large sheet of paper, and presenting their group work.

Minority, majority and minority stress

Disability rights • Culture and identity

Actitivity: The dialogue exercise. The illustration shows a group of women standing in a ring.

The dialogue exercise

Human rights • Democracy and citizenship

Activity: What is universal design? Description of the picture: A brown dog sits in the foreground. Behind sits a woman with black sunglasses and a book on her lap. Illustrate a person with blindness or impaired vision.

What is universal design?

Disability rights

Be part of solving climate and environmental issues

Be part of solving climate and environmental issues

Human rights and the environment

Activity: Some people in our city. Picture: Four people standing in front of three posters with drawings of people. On each person there is post-it notes with different identities.

Some people in our city

Culture and identity • Disability rights

Activity: Timeline, the rights of people with disability. Image: Woman standing in front of a group of people sitting around a table. Screen in the background showing picture of Louis Braille

Timeline: The rights of people with disability

Human rights • Disability rights

Activity: Woman, life, freedom. Picture: A mural shows a Kurdish woman and the slogan of "Woman, Life, Freedom" (in Kurdish)

Woman, life, freedom

Democracy and citizenship

Introduction to climate and human rights

Introduction to climate and human rights

Human rights • Human rights and the environment

Activity: My Human Rights Organisation. Image: Light pole with a sticker that says "Every human has rights".

My Human Rights Organisation

Democracy and citizenship

Activity: Human Rights Cards. Picture: Three women sitting around a table discussing human rights cards.

Human Rights Cards

Human rights • Democracy and citizenship

Activity: Freedom, Yes! Image: Three women stand in a row and present their group work.

Freedom-yes!

Negative social control

Juggling three thoughts at the same time

Juggling three thoughts at the same time

Human rights • Human rights and the environment

Identity and minority stress

Identity and minority stress

Disability rights • Culture and identity

Activity: What can we do? Photo of a teaching situation. Woman speaking. Man listening.

What can we do?

Human rights • Democracy and citizenship

Activity: Female role models. Photo of activist Malala Yousafzai

Female role models

Culture and identity • Negative social control

Screen break

Screen break

Activity: Analysing the human rights situation. Image of group work. A woman in a yellow sweater is writing on a large sheet of paper.

Analysing the human rights situation

Activity: Which type of freedom is most important. Photo of a group work. Three women discussing.

Which type of freedom is most important?

Negative social control

Getting to know each other

Getting to know each other

Let´s talk human rights

Let´s talk human rights

Human rights • Democracy and citizenship

Activity: What´s on the news. Illustration: A hand holding up a newspaper. Colorful pattern in the background.

What´s on the news?

Human rights • Democracy and citizenship

Activity: Human Rights in Europe. Picture of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (France)

Human Rights in Europe

Do as I do

Do as I do

Making groups

Making groups

Two lines of flag poles displaying flags of UN member states at the Palais des Nations

Human rights timeline

Which right is the most important?

Which right is the most important?

Activity: Brainstorming on human rights.

Brainstorming on human rights

Earthquake

Earthquake

Activity: Analysing the rights of people with disabilities. Picture: Woman standing in front of a colorful graffiti wall.

Analysing the rights of people with disabilities

Human rights • Disability rights

Timeline: Women´s rights

Timeline: Women´s rights

Human rights • Negative social control

Guess the song

Guess the song

Activity: The others in history and today. Picture: People in a demonstration. A person is holding a poster with "Black lives matter" written on it.

The others in history and today

Culture and identity

Activity: Take pictures of human rights. Picture: Close-up of person with black hood and mask (to prevent the spread of COVID-19) looking into camera.

Take pictures of human rights

Clap on shoulder

Clap on shoulder

Activity: Analysis of children's rights. Picture: Child looking out the window this his head leaning on his hand.

Analysis: children’s rights

Human rights • Negative social control

One minute

One minute

Activity: Timeline on children's rights. Image: Mural by the environmental activist Greta Thunberg.

Timeline about children’s rights

Human rights • Negative social control

Activity "How to influence society?". Image: Group of people discussing.

How to influence society?

Democracy and citizenship

Workshop: Freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech

Human rights • Democracy and citizenship

Activity: 100 % freedom of expression? Image: Woman participating in a demonstration is being interviewed by a reporter.

100 % freedom of expression?

Human rights • Democracy and citizenship

Activity: Cultures in change. Image: People demonstrating against racism and discrimination.

Cultures in change

Culture and identity • Negative social control

Bag of peas

Bag of peas

Activity: The civil society. Image: A man an a woman standing in front of the facilitator. They have post-its on their sweaters describing there imaginary identities.

The Civil Society

Democracy and citizenship

The wind is blowing

The wind is blowing

Activity: One, two, three: Play! Image: Four course participants show a pantomime in which one is arrested by two others.

One, Two, Three: Play!

Human rights • Democracy and citizenship

Workshop: Freedom. Description of image: An illustration showing a diversity of women.

Freedom

Human rights • Negative social control

Cooperation

Cooperation

Who can violate human rights?

Who can violate human rights?

Human rights • Democracy and citizenship

Activity: Facts about the world. Image: Classroom with students, and a teacher in front. One of the students raises her hand.

Facts about the world

Democracy and citizenship

Activity: Care or control? Description of image: A group of women stand in a circle. Three of the women hold their arm on the back of the person next to them.

Care or control?

Culture and identity • Negative social control

Activity: Children´s right to co-determination. Description of picture: Impressions of two children's hands in blue paint.

Children’s right to co-determination

Negative social control

Activity: The identity exercise. Description of image: A group of women stand around the course leader who is standing on a chair.

The identity exercise

Culture and identity • Disability rights • Negative social control

Activity: The new planet. Description of image: Drawing of a planet with tall houses, trees and sea. A spaceship is headed for the planet. The planet is called "Life". Planetary rules are written in Arabic.

The new planet

Human rights • Democracy and citizenship

Activity: Children's rights. Description of the image: Wall painting of a child with helmet and a book on the back illustrating wings.

Children´s rights

Human rights • Negative social control

Human Rights Lens

Human Rights Lens

Human rights • Democracy and citizenship