How to educate children on human rights

As an adult, how can I best educate children and adolescents on human rights?

As we move further into the topic of Human Rights, we realize how deep and complex this content area is. Because CISV is an educational organization, we must talk about Human Rights in a simple, effective and engaging way while respecting and protecting Human Rights at all times.

This post is especially dedicated to trainers and adults who are preparing for local, national and regional trainings or for being super ready for this year’s CISV programmes. We can imagine that you might have asked yourself some questions during this preparation phase such as “How can we train and talk about Human Rights in a training?” “How can we prepare leaders and staff to develop Human Rights activities in camps?” “What is the appropriate way to talk about Human Rights with children and youth of a certain age?”.

We want to help answer those questions and support your preparation for trainings and camps. To that end, we share with you some Guidance for trainers and adults educating children and adolescents on human rights, developed by Sarah Laughton and Rupert Friederichsen – please find file here: Human_rights_education_guidance_for_adults (2017). We strongly recommend reading and thinking about the issues it raises and sharing it with your fellow trainers, staffs and leaders.

Next week, we are going to bring more tips, hints and thoughts for trainers and adults on applying this Guidance in your trainings and in your camps! Stay tuned!

The Human Rights team 🙂