CITIZENSHIP AND HUMAN RIGHTS FOR 3RD ESO

HUMAN RIGHTS

Dear Teacher,

I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no man should witness:

Gas chambers built by learned engineers.

Children poisoned by educated physicians.

Infants killed by trained nurses.

Women and babies shot and burned by high school and college graduates.

So I am suspicious of education. My request is: Help your students become human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters, skilled psychopaths, educated Eichmanns.

Reading, writing, arithmetic are important only if they serve to make our children more human.

Letter written by an anonimous teacher to a U.S school, published in 1972

Television and internet bring the turbulent world close to our lives more than ever before. We see dictators on TV. We follow revolutions on Twitter. We observe the effects of terrorism and the fight against it. We engage with the fates of millions of people fleeing persecution, natural disasters and conflicts.  You, your families, neighbours or classmates may yourselves be refugees or asylum seekers. You are invloved in issues like war, toruture, poverty, migration, statues of women, freedom of speech.

UNDERSTANDING HUMAN RIGHTS, is not an abstract concept. It helps you understand the real world, your WORLD. The classroom is the perfect place for understanding them.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL's aim is simple: To end human rights abuse.