The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child emphasized that one aim of the school to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms, to promote that all children enjoy. They noted that to truly understand and promote human rights, they need to live in relation to others.

The New York City schools has taken this directive seriously and through the creation of their school for human rights, a combined Middle and High School Academy, which is built around the concept of the human heart, man. It is a little of almost 150 public schools open, through concrete initiatives in the past three years by the New York schools, with its doors opened in September 2004. During the school year, the New York City Schools’ 2005-2006, the School of Human Rights had over 180 students.

Located in Brooklyn, the School of Human Rights rare, even for schools in New York. The core values of dignity, respect and responsibility, to learn that the driving force behind the program, such as teachers and teach students how to deal with each other, and the types of adults in New York City schools hope that the students become. Human rights are demonstrated for students how the school educational needs of individual students in these practices, such as discipline met with dignity examples given in the class, raised questions of teachers, active discussions, critical thinking and reflection that are part of the curriculum-based projects are, and to enrich themselves human rights trips.

The School of Human Rights is the only New York City, one that schools and curriculum includes social skills-based. It appears even the human rights in their extracurricular activities, such as film festivals and workshops with the defenders of human rights.

The School for Human Rights Challenges of the New York City students to become compassionate, socially engaged young adults committed to equality, dignity and social consciousness. Amnesty International USA, Human Rights Education Association, and New Visions for Public Schools, who have worked with schools in New York and from school is possible hope many students from these schools in the city of New York to meet to see what they in their adult life to learn and to pursue careers in social justice.
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