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Human Rights Day Assembly

This Human Rights Day assembly is for teachers looking to raise students’ awareness about human rights, and the history of human rights. The assembly can link to certain topics in PSHE, Citizenship and History.

The assembly begins with a speech from Martin Luther King, which may point the students in the direction of what the assembly will be about. The assembly plan makes use of quotes from high UN officials as well as historic figures, such as Thomas Jefferson, to give a feeling of how wide-ranging and how far back the subject of human rights goes. The assembly also takes excerpts from 1789’s Declaration of the Rights of Man, 1948’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 1998 Human Rights Act to highlight the key issues that people around the world believe make up human rights.

Before it ends, the assembly takes the students through the idea of people losing their human rights, or forfeiting them, as well as the rights of children and what rights children don’t have. The thought for the day takes the assembly plan full circle and is from Martin Luther King. Vocational Qualifications

This human rights day assembly can be used to support learning outcomes for Key Skills and Workplace Core Skills - Individual Rights and responsibilities from City & Guilds. These assemblies are also suitable for use with Skills Towards Enabling Progression "Step Up" - Rights and Responsibilities from NOCN; Citizenship Studies - Rights and Responsibilities from OCR.