Teaching young people

This page is for teachers looking for ways to talk about human rights in the classroom.

Amnesty's Education team produce creative and engaging teaching resources for a wide range of issues suitable for ages 5-18.

Invite an Amnesty Speaker to talk to your class or assembly, or find out more about our professional development courses for teachers to help you teach human rights with confidence.

Teacher training

Amnesty Teacher Programme

Our pioneering continuous professional development programme will help you gain expertise and skills to explore human rights in your school and give you lots of exciting resources and techniques to use with your students.

Teaching resources

Teach human rights with fiction

Resources to support students to explore human rights fiction and develop their own writing style.

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Education

Order hard copy educational resources

Use this form to access a selection of our key educational resources available to order in hard copy. Your request will be sent to our Supporter Communications Team who will then place the order with our warehouse.

Campaigning

Start an Amnesty youth group

Discover the big difference Amnesty youth groups makes to its members and those you campaign for. We provide all the materials and support you'll need along the way.

Remote learning

Words That Burn – introducing our bitesize poetry series

Our new bitesize poetry series supports secondary school students to independently watch, explore and create poetry in response to human rights. Written for the learner, the series includes an introduction followed by seven bitesize sessions.

Teaching resources

Support your students to make a difference with poetry

Amnesty's national project Words That Burn for young people to explore and express human rights through poetry.

Resources

Education resources for all ages

View all of our education resources by human rights theme.

Find educators

Invite an Amnesty Activist to your school

Our activist educators offer your school the opportunity to engage and immerse your pupils in human rights education for a lesson, workshop or assembly.