Patricia Thompson
NYS Educational Equity Director

Human Rights 101, a new initiative from Thirteen/WNET New York, offers students insight into such complex topics such as tolerance, racism, women's rights, refugees, and religious freedom, and helps show students how they can become effective catalysts for change.

Online, the Human Rights 101 website serves as a launching pad for project ideas and provides students and their advisors with tools to help them learn about human rights, focus their interests, and actively work for change. The site features a wealth of resources, ideas for projects that can make positive change, volunteer and internship opportunities and an interactive profile feature that uses human rights stories to help students focus their interests and goals. Teachers anywhere will be able to use the Human Rights 101 toolkit to guide the development of projects. The toolkit includes model projects, a list of PBS programs that address human rights issues and complementary teaching resources.

Human Rights 101 is an initiative of Thirteen's Educational Resources Center, a leading provider of innovative programming, online education, and professional development for educators. Major support for Human Rights 101 is provided by Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation and the Reuters Foundation.