Conversation Starters: Rights-based conversations for mixed youth groups
This game designed for youth aged 12-19 invites them to reflect on fairness, respect, inclusion, and rights in their everyday lives while learning about children’s rights. It works well with mixed groups, including newcomer and non-newcomer youth, recognizing that youth spaces are shaped by many different experiences and backgrounds.
Allyship Sparks: Conversation Cards for Youth and their Adult Allies
These cards help young people aged 12+ and the adults who support them: parents, guardians, youth workers, teachers, coaches, mentors, etc. engage in honest, open and constructive dialogue about allyship across generations and in various settings.
Celebrate National Child Day: Let’s Make Sure Kids Are Heard!
This activity, divided into two parts, invites young people to first discover or remember their rights, before letting them express themselves on a postcard to be sent to the federal Prime Minister. Also available in French.
Needs & Offers Activity: Strengthening Ally Relationships Between Youth and Youth Workers
Equitas and Éducaloi present this interactive activity, supported by the City of Montreal, aimed at strengthening relationships between young people and youth workers. Through a collaborative matching exercise, participants explore the strengths of the allyship, while acknowledging its limitations and identifying areas for future growth. Also available in French.
Needs & Offers Activity: Strengthening Ally Relationships Between Youth and their Caregivers
Equitas and Éducaloi present this activity, supported by the City of Montreal, aimed at young people and the adults who accompany them. The objective is to strengthen their relationship as allies by exploring the responsibilities of guardians, the needs of young people, and the limits and strengths of their bond, to better support their development […]
Peace by piece: Youth voices for fighting racism, discrimination, and exclusion
This pamphlet is a human rights education tool designed and authored by an intergenerational team of BPOC activists, educators and allies from across Canada as part of the Equitas’ National Dialogue Against Racism Collective 2023, in partnership with Concordia University. Also available in French.
Where I Live: A Community Mapping Activity
The goal of this activity on children’s rights is to map areas in communities where children and youth face exclusion, discrimination, and where their rights are not respected, while also providing them with the opportunity to discuss the changes they want to see. Also available in French.
From Saturn to Jupiter
Activity to help foster respect for children’s rights and diversity by inciting children and youth to reflect on their peers’ similarities and differences. Also available in French.
Cellphilm, a Participatory Visual Technique for Human Rights Education
This document is an introduction to a participatory visual method called cellphilming and its application in the context of human rights education. Also available in French.
Strategies to enhance participation of women and marginalized people
This good practice explores the creation of inclusive conditions for greater participation of women and traditionally marginalized people in human rights education activities. It proposes tangible measures to reduce barriers before, during and after a human rights education activity. Available in French.