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Friday, October 30, 2009
In 1989, world leaders decided that children needed a special convention just for them . The leaders also wanted to make sure that the world recognized that children have human rights too. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the first legally binding international instrument to incorporate the full range of huma...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
For Refugee Week 2009 the Year 7 class in Millennium Integrated took part in a number of activities, which helped them to try and understand some of the issues affecting refugees. They considered what life could be like for someone who has been forced to leave their home in difficult circumstances such as war or persecut...
Thursday, April 23, 2009
LIFT OFF was showcased by the United Nations as an example of combating racism through human rights education. LIFT OFF is an example of how human rights education can encourage attitudes of respect, mutual understanding and equality both within the school community as well as within the wider local and global contexts. The importance...
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Conference Theme: Mainstreaming Human Rights Education in Schools
This was the fourth annual human rights education conference organised by the LIFT OFF Initiative (Amnesty International, INTO, UTU) in conjunction with the Irish Human Rights Commission and the N.I. Human Rights Commission.
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Monday, September 22, 2008
At the forthcoming conference on 15th October in Maynooth, Ireland, to launch the new Level 5 FETAC Award in School Age Care, one of the workshops will feature a case study on the development of an after school service in partnership with a secondary school. For details of this conference conact training@barnardos.ie...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
The aim of our cross border linking project ‘Human Rights Friendly Playgrounds’ with our partner school in Belfast, Bunscoil an tSleibhe is to ensure that all the children in our school will be happy to come to school to learn and play with their friends. Last year’s sixth class in St Catherine's NS ha...
Monday, March 03, 2008
The boys at Star of the Sea are taking part in Friendship Day on the 29 th February. The school councillors are organising the day for the rest of the school. The boys from the school council with some other pupils from their classes will play cooperative games with the younger classes and talk about friendship with...
Monday, March 03, 2008
Conflict in and of itself is not positive or negative. Rather, it is the response to conflict that transforms it into either a destructive experience or a challenge offering the opportunity for growth. Learning how to respond to it constructively is a skill that should be taught in school. A school mediation program is one meth...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Our 2007 Cross-border Human Rights Education Conference took place on 13th December in the beautiful surroundings of Dublin Castle. Over 100 delegates, mostly from Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland attended workshops and presentations around the theme of building leadership capacity in human rights education. We were delighted to ha...
Thursday, January 03, 2008
This was a truly informative and enjoyable day. It is great to have the opportunity to exchange ideas with colleagues. Very often those of us who teach in smaller schools can tend to feel somewhat isolated. Occasions such as these provide a very positive and relaxed atmosphere in which to develop strategies and approaches to using the Li...
