Human Rights and Sanitation: WaterAid Lesson Plan Secondary

Access to water and sanitation are a basic human rights, yet in many parts of the world clean water and access to a toilet is a luxury. These lesson plans introduce the idea of human rights in the context of basic sanitation.
   
This lesson plans aims to consider what the differences are between needs and wants and whether these are different according to where you are, to think about whether adults and children share the same needs, to understand what is meant by human rights and introduce the UN declaration of human rights and the Convention on the rights of the child, to understand that access to the most basic of needs is often denied in developing countries, to consider how best to raise awareness of important issues for different audiences, and to plan an awareness raising campaign around an issue of interest related to sanitation either at home or abroad.

This set of lesson plans introduces students to human rights through the issue of toilets and sanitation in both a UK and global context. It also allows students to express their opinions about the issues and draw upon their own personal experiences so that they are able to compare and contrast these with other people’s experiences. The lessons act as a stimulus for debate and discussion around many development issues and can be used as they are or can be adapted and extended to explore the subject in more depth.

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Introduction

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Lesson plans

Notes for teachers

Resources

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