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10 Most Racist Moments In TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMvfEdTUO6Q
10 Most Racist Moments In TV

The HUB : global platform for human rights media and action
http://hub.witness.org/
The HUB : the global platform for human rights media and action
Welcome to the Hub -- the world's first participatory media site for human rights. Through the Hub, individuals, organizations, networks and groups around the world are able to bring their human rights stories and campaigns to global attention and to mobilize action to protect and promote human rights.
Watch and forward the 60-second Hub video.
Anyone with a valid email address can join the Hub. Users of the Hub include human rights workers, students, academics, filmmakers, journalists, activists, teachers and concerned citizens worldwide.
The Hub is a project of WITNESS, an international human rights organization that uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations.

Stand Up for Your Rights
http://pbskids.org/wayback/civilrights/
Stand Up for Your Rights
This site covers three important issues, brought to life through individual stories. The issues include women's right to vote, explored through the stories of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony; religious freedom, examined through the trial of Anne Hutchinson in Puritan New England; and the battle for civil rights, told through the story of school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas.
An interview with Melba Beals, one of the Little Rock Nine, tells how she felt as one of the first African American students to attend Little Rock's Central High. Kids can find out more about the many struggles as well as the personalities involved in the civil rights movement through games and quizzes that will pique their interest to find out more.

The difference between men and women's brains
http://video.learnedvalue.com/videos.php?id=230
The difference between men and women's brains ... online video

aVataR@School project
http://www.avataratschool.eu/mod/resource/view.php?id=83
The overall goal of the project is to use virtual role plays to find a new way for conflict resolutions with a playful and cooperative approach.
The aVataR@School project aims to establish virtual role plays in which pupils, teachers and others try out strategies for conflict resolution by means of the School Peer Mediation approach.
Each virtual role plays will take plave in the most popular 3D online digital world: SecondLife (http://www.secondlife.com). For each of the role plays a scenario will be worked out to represent a typical conflict in school (e.g. social exclusion, bullying or violence). In each scenario players will try to find common solutions in a cooperative and collaborative way.

What About Prejudice? (1959 film)
http://www.archive.org/details/WhatAbou1959
What About Prejudice? (film made in 1959)
Pioneering film that encourages youth to look into themselves for the causes of prejudice.
Since they never actually show the individual it is directed to, you don't know if is racial, religous, or ethnic.

Girl Power (video/presentations)
http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/
Girl Power (video/presentations)
Eve Ensler is the playwright of "The Vagina Monologues" and founder of the global movement, V-Day. (Recorded February 2004 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 21:11)
Helen Fisher is an anthropologist with Rutgers University, specializing in gender differences and the evolution of human emotions. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 24:13)

This Charming Couple - film made in 1950
http://www.archive.org/details/ThisChar1950
This Charming Couple
Marriage training film dramatizing a partnership too fraught with conflicts to survive. Produced as part of a post-World War II initiative to make marriages more sustainable in the face of postwar dislocation.
A series of films based on the textbook "Marriage for Moderns," Made in 1950
social | marriage | gender roles | equal opportunities | stereotypes |

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
http://www.hreoc.gov.au/
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (Australia)
Disability Rights | Human Rights | Racial Discrimination | Sex Discrimination |

Women in the Ancient World
http://www.womenintheancientworld.com
Women in the Ancient World
Dowry and Bride Price in the Ancient World | Women in Ancient Egypt | Women in Ancient Rome | Women in Ancient Greece | Women in Ancient Israel | Women in Babylonia under the Hammurabi Law Code |

Single-Sex Education
http://www.nea.org/neatoday/0604/singlesex.html
Single-Sex Education and single-sex classrooms
Boys go here, girls go there, as across the country (USA), schools embrace single-sex education in hopes of boosting achievement.

Good practice in promoting race equality in schools
http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/pressreleases/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.details&id=1731
OFSTED (UK) Reports Nov 2005 : Good practice in promoting race equality in schools and colleges highlighted by Ofsted
Race Equality in Further Education highlights | Race Equality in Education |

Equal Opportunities Policy Archives (UK)
http://www.schoolpolicy.co.uk/
Equal Opportunities Policy Archives (UK)

TeacherNets equality area (UK)
www.teachernet.gov.uk/equality
TeacherNet? equality area features updated information on gender, religion, sexual orientation and equality in the curriculum.
Schools have a duty to promote equality of opportunity for all students and staff, regardless of their sexual orientation, race, religion or disability. This promotion of equality should be enshrined in school policies on equal opportunities, behaviour and the curriculum.
The framework for Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) and Citizenship aims to teach pupils to understand and respect diversity and differences. Pupils learn to recognise the effects of bullying, stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination of any kind, and to develop the skills to challenge discrimination assertively.

The Gender Equity Handbook
http://www.ricw.state.ri.us/geh.htm
The Gender Equity Handbook : online version
This important new resource, developed for classroom teachers by 45 classroom teachers and educators, was released in June 1999. The 400-page handbook consists of time-saving, uniform lesson plans for teaching gender equity in K-16 classrooms.
The Handbook also contains information on gender issues in education, as well as information about print and online resources.
Equal Opportunities | gender | resources | educational standards |

Tolerance
http://www.tolerance.org/index.jsp
Tolerance
a principal online destination for people interested in dismantling bigotry and creating, in hate's stead, communities that value diversity. (Read more about how we define "tolerance.")
If you want to know how to transform yourself, your home, your school, your workplace or your community, Tolerance.org is a place to start ?and continue ?the journey.

Let There Be Equity : A Gender Equity WebQuest
http://www.esc2.net/TIELevel2/projects/gender/
Let There Be Equity : A Gender Equity WebQuest
This WebQuest was developed as a staff development tool for teachers at Robstown High School in Robstown, Texas.

Gender Equity : Lesson Plans and Teachers Guide
http://www.genderequity.org/book/contents.html
Gender Equity : Lesson Plans and Teachers Guide
Gender Equity- Lesson Plans and Teacher Guide is a lively, creative, and student-focused series of detailed and easy to use lesson plans, organized into topic categories of: gender role stereotyping, language, careers, employability, sexual harassment, gender and technology, and equity in the classroom. A matrix chart suggests the lesson plans that are best suited for certain classroom subjects. All teachers will find lesson plans that are well suited to their subject area.

Racism : No Way (Australian Site)
http://www.racismnoway.com.au/
Racism : No Way (Australian Site)
The Racism. No way! project aims to assist school communities and education systems to recognise and address racism in the learning environment.
What Schools are doing about racism | racism game | newsletter | Framework for countering racism |

Example and sample school policies from NCSL
http://www.ncsl.org.uk/index.cfm?pageID=managing-policies-documents
Example and sample school equal opportunities policies from NCSL National College for School Leadership (UK)

Online Support for Ethnic Minority Attainment (EMA)
http://www.emaonline.org.uk
Online Support for Ethnic Minority Attainment (EMA)
This online resource base for teachers has been developed by Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester LEAs with funding from the DfES. It aims to become a focal point for teachers and others supporting Black and Minority Ethnic pupils, by providing content, encouraging contribution and signposting to advice and guidance.

Test yourself for hidden bias
http://www.tolerance.org/hidden_bias/
Test yourself for hidden bias
In the United States, equality is protected by the Constitution and supported by civil rights laws. Yet reports of unequal treatment because of skin color, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, country of origin, ability and other differences persist.
This discrimination is based on stereotypes and prejudice that social psychologists believe linger in most of us. Even though we believe we see and treat people as equals, hidden biases may still influence our perceptions and actions.
Created by psychologists at Yale University and the University of Washington, this collection of Implicit Association Tests (IAT) measures unconscious bias. We invite you to test yourself and reveal what may be lingering in your psyche. Each test takes about five minutes, and your privacy is protected -- no identifying information is collected or distributed.
Equal opportunities |

Women's History - Virtual Field Trip
http://www.field-trips.org/ss/womhist/index.htm
A field trip created with TourMaker guides you through a sequence of Web pages on any given topic. For each page, there is simultaneous commentary in an accompanying frame. You move forward and back through the Field Trip using the tour Control Panel and you can leave the Tour to explore links and return to it whenever you want.
Women's History - Virtual Field Trip

Racism in Schools UK Leicester LEA Document
http://www.leicester.gov.uk/sys_upl/documents/departments/dpt_385.doc
This document provides assistance to schools in addressing the racial harassment that can affect anyone within the school community.
Racism in Schools UK Leicester LEA Document | Equal Opportunities |

School Policies for Race Equality and Cultural Diversity
http://www.runnymedetrust.org/meb/m_f_s/re_cd.html#state
The Runnymede Trust has produced a starting point for schools wishing to develop policies on race equality and cultural diversity.
School Policies for Race Equality and Cultural Diversity
Equal Opportunities |

SFE: Stands for Education (UK)
http://www.sfe.co.uk/resources/default.cfm
SfE has collected some of the best resources on the internet and organised them into the easy to use Freeware Bank, Linkbank and Infobank.
Choose Freeware Bank for access a wide selection of free software and other IT tools related to the use of ICT in schools. All the resources have been sorted by subject relevance and assessed by our staff.
Choose Linkbank to begin your research and find useful online teaching resources. SfE has reviewed and assessed thousands of websites useful to school staff and all have been categorised to make them easy to find.
Choose Infobank for links to hundreds of official educational documents from central government, LEAs, universities, unions and associations.
websites | website | education | educational | review | reviewed | teachers | students | subjects | cross-curriculum | curriculum | equal opportunities |

The Gender and Achievement site (UK)
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/genderandachievement/
The Gender and Achievement site aims to help teachers by:
- sharing successful experiences of schools and LEAs;
- providing up to date information from the DfEE and its partners;
Boys' underachievement is a major concern. Nationally, boys fall behind girls in early literacy skills and this gap in attainment widens with age. Of course that's not the whole story, many boys are doing well at school, while some girls are failing to reach their full potential. Underachievement may also be linked with other factors, such as local context, social class or ethnicity. - offering an overview of recent research on gender and educational achievement.

Influential People of the Civil Rights Movement
http://trackstar.hprtec.org/main/display.php3?track_id=472
This track will have locations which contain information on various leaders of the civil rights movement. You will be required to analyze information and answer questions regarding each site.
Martin Luther King, Jr. | Coretta Scott King | Malcolm X | Thurgood Marshall | Rosa Parks | George Wallace | Medgar Evers | 4 Little girls |

Today's Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Rights
http://www.thirteen.org/wnetschool/origlessons/stonewall/
When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay nightclub in Greenwich Village, on June 28, 1969, gays and lesbians fought back. This marked a turning point in the struggle for gay and lesbian rights in the United States. And more than three decades later, the struggle still continues. In this lesson, students examine the issues that now surround the quest for gay and lesbian equal rights.

Gender and Achievement
http://www.standards.dfee.gov.uk/genderandachievement/index.html
Boys' underachievement is a major concern. Nationally, boys fall behind girls in early literacy skills and this gap in attainment widens with age. Of course that's not the whole story, many boys are doing well at school, while some girls are failing to reach their full potential. Underachievement may also be linked with other factors, such as local context, social class or ethnicity.

Is the Digital Divide the New Civil Rights Issue?
http://www.cosn.org/resources/022801.htm
Over the course of the last several years, politicians and citizens alike have grappled with the public policy issue commonly known as the digital divide. In today's digital economy, the question of whether or not people have access to information technology is no small matter. By the year 2006, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, 50 percent of all U.S. jobs will be in the IT sector or will require IT skills.

Human Rights Web
http://www.hrweb.org/
What are Human Rights? / An Introduction to Human Rights / A Short History of the Human Rights Movement / Biographies of Prisoners of Conscience / Human Rights Legal and Political Dosmileents / United Nations Doloveents / Human Rights Issues, Debates, and Discussions / What can I do to Promote Human Rights? / Getting Started: A Primer for New Human Rights Activists / Join a Human Rights Organization! / Human Rights Resources /

Human Rights
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/humanrights/
The United Nations CyberSchoolBus Project ... for all school levels.

Institute of Race Relations
http://www.homebeats.co.uk/
The London-based Institute of Race Relations (IRR) conducts research and produces educational resources which are at the cutting edge of the struggle for racial justice in Britain and internationally. It seeks to reflect the experience of those who suffer racial oppression and draws its perspectives from the most vulnerable in society.

Educational Equity
http://www.unr.edu/repc/equity/index.html
Some very useful resources and ideas about gender equity in schools.

Women & Social Movements in the USA 1820-1930
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/

"The Crosspoint"
http://www.magenta.nl/crosspoint
A very large collection of links to site srelated to : Human Rights / Ati-Racism / Refugees / Women's Rights / Antifascism / Shoah etc

DfEE Info on Equal Ops. (UK)
http://www.open.gov.uk/dfee/equal.htm
Department for Education and Employment

Anti-Defamation League
http://www.adl.org/
Fighting Anti-Semitism, Bigotry and Extremism Since 1913

Find It Quick : Equal Opportunities
http://www.finditquick.com/topics/6/27.html
Learn the history of the Women's Movement, Discover how women won the right to vote, learn about important firsts by women, read the biography of a great woman online.

Equal Opportunities Commission, Hong Kong
http://www.eoc.org.hk/
The EOC was established in 1996 with the goal of promoting equal opportunities and eliminating discrimination. To achieve this goal, we need the support of the community and the business sector.
The effective use of human resources is one of the key elements of every business's success. And equal opportunities is about using human resources effectively. Its basic philosophy is to create a level-playing field for the individual. In the employment world, it means matching the right person with the right job. We focus on people's abilities, not on their gender, marital status, or what they cannot do. Companies will reach their competitive potential when every employee feels fully valued and fully utilized.

BritKid
http://www.britkid.org/
Welcome to Britkid. This is a website about race, racism, and life - as seen though the eyes of the Britkids

DfEE Advice (UK)
http://www.dfee.gov.uk/a-z/EQUAL%5FOPPORTUNITIES.html
Heads have a responsibility to ensure that they do not commit unlawful discriminatory acts and the governing body’s equal opportunities policy is implemented in the school.

You're at Y
http://www.yforum.com/
Welcome. You're at Y?, the site that's making headlines worldwide by daring people to talk about their differences.
Consider yourself a volunteer in a unique experiment.

The Standards Site (UK)
http://www.standards.dfee.gov.uk/genderandachievement/
The Gender and Achievement site aims to help teachers by:
sharing successful experiences of schools and LEAs;
providing up to date information from the DfEE and its partners;
offering an overview of recent research on gender and educational achievement.
We hope that this will provide teachers with a source of information, inspiration and a basis for developing their own school's strategy.

Civil Rights
http://www.civilrights.org/
Civilrights.org is a joint project of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference Education Fund.
The goal of civilrights.org is to recruit, educate and mobilize individuals of good conscience in the ongoing struggle for equal opportunity.

AdvocateWeb
http://www.advocateweb.org/
The Problem: Sexual exploitation and abuse of clients by trusted helping professionals is a serious problem.
AdvocateWeb offers: Extensive free resources for victims, survivors, and their families, friends, victim advocates, and professionals

BBC Education
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/humanrights/
Never in the history of the world have people been entitled to so many human rights - yet never have these rights been violated on such a scale as in the 20th century. We shall briefly look at the response of the world's nations to this turbulent and viol ent century.