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Human Rights Detective:
Your job as a human rights detective is to uncover two cases of abuse or denial of
human rights and report back to the Chief of Detectives (your
teacher). Your "Chief " may assign two or more detectives to work together
on the cases.
Here are some clues to work with:
- The Big Picture
- Start by getting some background information on Human Rights by looking
at Understanding Human Rights.
- Refer back if you need to, there are lots of useful links to follow.
- Human Rights Poster
- Find out about the
Declaration of Human
Rights.
- Choose one of the rights that you think is very important and make an A4
poster to show why you think it is important.
- Include three suggestions of how you might protect that right (without
breaking the law)
- Find two cases of abuse or denial
- Crime Scene: What has happened and who is involved?
Find out:
- Who are the victims?
- Where did the incidents occur? Include a
map of the country's
location.
- What happened to them, what were they doing, where, when?
- Why did they get involved?
- Who is guilty or accused?
- Were they accused of breaking the law? Explain.
- Why did they do what they did?
- What human rights have been broken?
- Action Plan:
How can we help?
- Suggest three things that could be done (without breaking the law) to help
the victims or bring the guilty to justice.
- Choose your best idea, and give three reasons why it is the best action
to take. Prepare a sample of your action.
- Witness Report
- What organisations are involved in helping the victims?
- Who are they and what do they do?
- What are their reasons for getting involved?
- Prepare your final report for the Chief of Detectives (your
teacher).
Your final report must contain:
- Human Rights poster
- Crime Scene Report for both cases (who, when, what ,where, how , why)
- Your Action Plans (what could you do and what would you do)
- Witness Report
This material has been produced by UNITEC Institute of Technology
under contract to the Ministry of Education.
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