Human Rights

Pupils learn about rights and responsibilities within their own lives and the lives of others.

Extract from the DfES document Developing the global dimension in the school curriculum:

Knowing about human rights including the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

This can include:

valuing our common humanity, the meaning of universal human rights;
understanding rights and responsibilities in a global context and the interrelationship between the global and the local;
understanding that there are competing rights and responsibilities in different situations and knowing some ways in which human rights are being denied and claimed locally and globally;
understanding human rights as a framework for challenging inequalities and prejudice, such as racism
knowing about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the European declaration on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act in UK law;
understanding the universality and indivisibility of human rights.