‘It should be posted in every classroom’ (Dec 2009)

‘It should be posted in every classroom’ (Dec 2009)

Unesco's Director-General, Jaime Torres Bodet, said of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948: ‘Every paragraph is a call to action, every line a condemnation of apathy, every sentence a repudiation of some moment of our individual or national history; every word forces us to scrutinize more closely the situation in the world today.' A growing number of teachers are helping students recognise this global taonga by posting it up in the classroom where it acts as a ready reference point for class discussions. You can order a poster from New Internationalist or, like a teacher at Motueka High School, create your own for school use!