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- Value placed on human rights
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- Ranking human rights: comparison with view from another culture
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- Definitions of human rights
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- Case analysis: categorising human rights
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- You may wish to show the film In the Name of the Father
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- Rights and corresponding responsibilities
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- Development of a set of responsibilities to correspond to given rights
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- Research task: Identification of human rights issues in the news, analysis of issues and types of rights involved
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- Ensure recent newspapers are available or students find them for homework
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- Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
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- Analysis of how the Declaration addressed abuses in pre-revolutionary French society
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- Download and duplicate the complete Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen from Stories of Democracy CD ROM
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- 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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- Comparison of United Nations Declaration with Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
- Creation of poster illustrating and explaining a human right
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- Download and duplicate the complete UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights from Stories of Democracy CD ROM
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- Comparison of Confucian 'relationships' with United Nations Declaration
- Development of a set of family relationships
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- Rights established in Australian Constitution
- Acts of Parliament (including role of Ombudsman and Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission) and court rulings
- Other organisations protecting human rights
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- Have answers and actual case decisions from 'Notes' section of unit available for yourself
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- David Irving case and freedom of speech
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- Application of knowledge of human rights issues to a case study on freedom of speech
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- Have actual case decision from 'Notes' section available for yourself
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- Arguments for and against a Bill of Rights
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- Situation analysis, applying a draft Bill to determine strengths and weaknesses of a Bill of Rights
- Debate preparation and participation: Australia should have a Bill of Rights
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- Provide access to library for research for debate preparation
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- Indigenous Australians and citizenship under the Constitution
- Indigenous Australians and human rights
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- Use of sources to identify human rights denied to Aboriginal people in the past
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- Changes to laws and establishment of new laws to protect human rights of Indigenous people
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- Comprehension task: Racial Discrimination Act
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- Study of one right: its importance; how it is protected in Australia; example of abuse; justification for abuse; response of individuals, other countries and organisations to abuse
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- Investigation of a right
- Report of rights investigation
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- Provide access to library for research
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