Human rights timeline

Participants contribute individually to creating a joint human rights timeline that shows key events on three different levels: national, regional and global.

About the exercise

  • Plenary exercise
  • Time required : 60 minutes
  • Target audience : This exercise is best suited to audiences for whom knowledge of a range of human rights documents is important – for example, civil society or decisionmakers. It is less suited to grassroots groups and unsuitable for groups that have little or no prior knowledge of human rights.

Purpose

  • To enable peer-to-peer learning and draw out participants’ pre-existing knowledge about human rights.
  • To introduce knowledge about the right to freedom of religion or belief (FORB).

Description

Participants contribute individually to creating a joint human rights timeline that shows key events on three different levels: national, regional and global.

Source: Adapted from The Human Rights Education Toolbox (2012), Danish Institute of Human Rights.

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