Human Rights/Social Change: Why Isn't This a Required Course?

Human Rights/Social Change 

            I cannot understand how schools can require a credit for PE and not require a credit in Human Rights.  It's hard for me to even form an argument for such a thing because in my mind it goes without saying.  

Y's study of human rights and social change consisted of discussions and research of the events of The Peasants’ Revolt, the massacre at Wounded Knee, the Trail of Tears, the Armenian genocide of ,the Jewish genocide of World War II, the genocide in Cambodia, the Rwandan genocide, the Bosnian/Serbian conflict, the Civil Rights Movement including the murder of the civil rights workers in Mississippi, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the murder of Emmett Till,  the abuses at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo, and the founding and effects of Amnesty International. I recommend going directly to AI's website for more information and for ways to get involved in human rights.

Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Clapham,

Night by Elie Wiesel

Left To Tell by Immaculee Ilibigiza

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Y used various online sources to study the events listed above.

Some recommended movies:

"The Killing Fields" (Cambodian genocide)

"Hotel Rwanda" (Rwandan genocide)


For more information on human rights or to become involved, please visit: https://www.amnesty.org/en/