10 December - teaching resource for Human Rights Day
UNA-UK has teamed up with the UK National Commission for UNESCO to develop a series of activity sheets for schools to celebrate UN international days. The resource is intended to support teaching about international issues at primary and secondary school level.
The third activity sheet - on celebrating Human Rights Day - is now available.
Celebrating Human Rights Day - factsheet
Human Rights Day - primary school activity
Human Rights Day - secondary school activity
You can also click on the following links to access our comprehensive 'Learn about human rights' and 'The United Nations Matters' teaching resources.
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20 November - teaching resource for Universal Children's Day
UNA-UK has teamed up with the UK National Commission for UNESCO to develop a series of activity sheets for schools to celebrate UN international days. The resource is intended to support teaching about international issues at primary and secondary school level.
The second activity sheet - on celebrating Universal Children's Day - is now available.
Celebrating Universal Children's Day - factsheet
24 October - UN Day launches educational resource on international days
UNA-UK has teamed up with the UK National Commission for UNESCO to develop a series of activity sheets for schools to celebrate UN international days. The resource is intended to support teaching about international issues at primary and secondary school level.
The first activity sheet - on celebrating United Nations Day - was launched on UN Day 2010. More will come online over the course of the year.
Celebrating UN Day - factsheet
19 October - UNA-UK calls for continued inclusion of citizenship in education
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In a letter to Secretary of State Michael Gove, UNA-UK Chair Lord Hannay of Chiswick argues that citizenship education is an important step towards realising the government's vision of a 'Big Society', and that the subject should remain a distinct and statutory component of the National Curriculum. UNA-UK has recently joined the Democratic Life coalition, which brings together supporters of citizenship education, including the Citizenship Foundation, British Youth Council, Amnesty International and Community Support Volunteers. |
In late 2006, UNA-UK was concerned to learn of proposals to drop specific references to the UN from the revised Key Stage 3 citizenship curriculum. UNA-UK urged the government to reverse these plans, holding meetings with Lord Adonis, DfES Minister responsible for citizenship. And in December 2006 plans to remove the UN from the citizenship curriculum were ditched.
In 2008, the year the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turned 60, UNA-UK sent every secondary school in the UK its 'UDHR60' human rights teaching handbook.
Click to download UNA-UK's Human Rights Teaching Pack.
In 2010, UNA-UK worked in collaboration with the UK National Commission for UNESCO to develop a teaching pack on the UN.
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