Curated OER
Protection
Students create dolls in a variety of skin tones to help reinact different community helpers. They make a helping hands mural on butcher block paper. They adopt a doll and demonstrate how to treat others gently. They discuss along...
Curated OER
Transcription of the Virginia Declaration
In this teaching primary resources worksheet, students read a transcription of the Virgina Declaration . Students read the excerpt and discuss its significance.
Curated OER
Breaking News English: Israel And Hamas Reject Amnesty Report
In this English worksheet, students read "Israel And Hamas Reject Amnesty Report," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
Curated OER
Pinochet Indicted for Murder
In this ESL worksheet, students read the given article and its presented vocabulary throughout. Students respond to 51 short answer, matching, true/false, and fill in the blank questions.
Other
Enough Project: The Project to End Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Find out about efforts being made to eradicate genocide and other crimes against humanity by activist group Enough.
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch: Macedonia
An account of the six-month struggle in 2001 between the Macedonian government and Albanian insurgents, the National Liberation Army. What caused this to happen? What crimes against humanity did each side impose on innocent civilians?...
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: The Holocaust:nazi War Crimes & Trials
A reference to Nazi War Crimes & Trials.
The History Place
The History Place: Nuremberg War Crimes
This site from The History Place provides a summary of who was charged in the Nuremberg War Crimes' trials along with excerpts from the official charges against them. Links are provided throughout for additional information on related...
A&E Television
History.com: 10 Things You May Not Know About the Nuremberg Trials
The post-World War II trials marked the first-ever prosecutions for genocide and crimes against humanity. Held directly after World War II, the Nuremberg Trials were a series of 13 military tribunals in which nearly 200 German...
US Department of State
U.s. Dept. Of State: 2018 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: China
A comprehensive account of human rights practices in China for the year 2018. Per the US Department of State, China's "human rights record remained poor and worsened in some areas." Sections of the report include: Arbitrary or Unlawful...
Other
Amnesty International Usa
Amnesty International USA is a consciousness-raising organization for human rights. Its goals are lofty and may make many people uncomfortable as they read stories of grotesque crimes against human kind. This is an excellent site to...
BBC
Bbc: The Charges Against Charles Taylor
Describes the crimes that Charles Ghankay Taylor, former president of Liberia, committed during the civil war in Liberia. Outlines what the crimes were. Click on the links on the right for more information on Taylor and the crimes.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Hadamar Trial
Article about the first trial in the US zone in Germany for massed atrocities. In the Hadamar Trial, those responsible for the euthanization center at Hadamar were tried for the killing of foreign prisoners, because laws did not yet...
BBC
Bbc: Khmer Rouge Judges Begin Work
Presents the process of bringing the Khamer Rouge to justice. Discusses the fact that many people believed that the Khamer Rouge would never come to trial for their crimes against humanity.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Doctors Trials
Excerpts from official transcripts and photos from the trial evidence against twenty-three German doctors and administrators.
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: Nuremberg Trials 1945 49
A large selection of primary source documents, pictures, biographical sketches and much more about the famous war crimes trials held over a period of several years in Nuremberg after World War 2.
United Nations
Un: Sierra Leone: Un Backed Court Convicts Three Rebel Leaders for War Crimes
Briefly discussed is the trial of three men who led a rebel movement in Sierra Leone and were found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL). (26 February 2009)
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: The Judges Trial
The story of the "Judges Trial," a trial held at Nuremberg of German law judges who had worked for the Nazis during World War 2.
Other
Canada and the International Criminal Court
A comprehensive website from the Canadian Government FAIT Department detailing the nation's involvement in the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Lists important topics, news, history and other relevant information,...
A&E Television
History.com: Nuremberg Trials
Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949. The defendants, who included Nazi Party officials and high-ranking...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Marking the 50th Anniversary of Eichmann's Trial in Jerusalem
This online exhibit takes an in-depth look at the Eichmann Trial. Adolf Eichmann was a Nazi who had an active role the Final Solution. He was tried and convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death. Read background on how...
BBC
Bbc: Taylor Flies in for Hague Trial
A detailed account of the beginning of Charles Taylor's trial for war crimes. It also chronicles what happened during the Liberian civil war and how Taylor was brought to justice.
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Abpi: Biotechnology
Students read through a complete, interactive lesson on biotechnology. An activity at the end allows students to research and present arguments for or against statements about the ethics of gene therapy and gene manipulation.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Eichmann Trial
Describes the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann that took place in Israel in the early 1960s. He was indicted on 15 counts of 'crimes against humanity' and in 1962 was executed by hanging.