This section contains lesson plans, activities, and ideas which center around the teaching of human rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) to middle and high school students.  It also provides a list of human rights organizations to which one may write for additional information on human rights and human rights education.  

Only 8% of adults and 4% of young people have heard of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that came into existence through the work of an former American First Lady.  That's largely because of a lack of human rights education in American schools.

A teacher has influence and affects from fifty to one hundred students per day and an estimated one thousand students or more during his/her teaching career.  It is the hope of the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill that the information presented here will be used by educators and others to make students aware of their own human rights at home and human rights in general throughout the world and to become effective human rights advocates.  It is also hopeful that these same students who have been exposed to human rights teaching, will be able to educate their own children and future generations about he virtue and value of human rights education as a basis for freedom, brotherhood, and peace in the world for years to come.