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Exercises to introduce human rights
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Freedom of religion or belief is just one of our human rights and it's closely intertwined with many other rights. It's important that participants in FORB trainings have a basic understanding of human rights in general, before going looking at the topic of freedom of religion or belief in particular. Here are some exercises to help you introduce the history, contents and purpose of human rights.
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Exercises
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Human rights timeline
A useful exercise to introduce the subject of human rights in which the participants create a joint human rights timeline that includes both personal and global events. 
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Human rights squares
A good ice-breaker exercise for human rights trainings, in which participants ask each other questions about human rights. 
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The human rights balloon
An imaginative discussion game in which participants have to rank how important different human rights are to them. 
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The newspaper exercise
A group work exercise that aims help participants to recognise human rights/freedom of religion or belief violations in different contexts, understanding that they occur all over the world and in all sectors of society. 
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Human needs - human rights
A really good interactive exercise that combines group work and plenary discussion to help participants identify the connection between their felt needs and the rights given in international law. 
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Paradise island
Another great interactive exercise that combines group work and plenary discussion to help participants identify the connection between their felt needs and the rights given in international law. 
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