For Schools

What can you do if you are a teacher?

See our Links section for websites dealing in particular with bringing the issue of child soldiers into the classroom. They often have lists of further resources and links. Some of these websites are run by students.

Educational guide for teachers - English Español Francais

Youth friendly guide to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict - English Francais (Note: Produced in Canada so has some Canadian references but a useful reference for all.)

Jimmie Briggs' Innocents Lost curriculum guide

Amnesty International USA has produced a curriculum guide to to be used with Jimmie Briggs' book Innocents Lost: When child soldiers go to war.

Amnesty USA says:

"Together with Briggs, we have put together this specific Human Rights Education guide to be taught in high schools, colleges, non-formal educational institutions, and cultural associations throughout the country as a way of educating individuals about the global crisis of children forced to fight in conflict.

Our hope is that reading Innocents Lost and learning about child soldiers, young people of different ages will not only be affected by the issue, but also be moved to action. Amnesty International believes that learning about human rights is the first step toward respecting, promoting and defending those rights; for that reason, Amnesty established its Human Rights Education program (HRE) to facilitate the teaching of human rights. We have used Briggs' extraordinary book about child combatants as an entry way into the larger issue of children's human rights and other interrelated human rights issues, such as the role of girls in conflict and the question of justice and impunity."

Cyberdodo

www.CyberDodo.org is a community-based, multimedia and multilingual internet platform intended for all.  It offers a significant multi-media content (over 10 hours of cartoons, on-line games, information files, bonuses, etc…) and is available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.

Who is CyberDodo?

The goal of CyberDodo, the Defender of Life, is to make the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as information regarding our main environmental challenges, accessible to all.  Indeed, to be able to live on a healthy planet is also a fundamental Right.

Rendered virtual given his demise at the hands of man, CyberDodo has come back to make sure that what happened to his kind does not happen to any other living species… starting with Children.

He is a Universal Ambassador for the Defence of Life with no particular affiliation concerning race, religion, nationality, sex, social standing or political orientation

CyberDodo is a global information tool dedicated to the Defence of Life, because freedom is born of knowledge.

Watch the CyberDodo cartoon on Child Soldiers.