Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Many years have passed and unfortunately there is still a long way ahead to guarantee the fundamental freedoms and protect the human rights of all. However, it also has to be said that there are many organisms and individuals who are working hard to collaborate to protect human rights. Today I would like to write about one of these individuals. Her name is Benedetta Berti. She is a foreign policy and security researcher, analyst, consultant, author and lecturer. Her work focuses on human security and internal conflicts, as well as on post-conflict stabilization/consolidation (specifically integration of armed groups, democracy/governance and crisis management and prevention).
In less than five minutes, Benedetta offers an accurate insight into the limits of the current mechanisms that aim at protecting human rights. She also highlights the need to update the existing mechanisms if we want to preserve human rights in the current digital world we live in.
My second proposal for classroom use is based on ""Blowing in the wind" by Bob Dylan. Composed in 1963, its message is very much alive in 2015. The song includes a string of provoking questions to make us aware of the fact that the largest cause of human rights violations is mental disconnection from the reality that affects others: "how many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?"
Listen and fill in the gaps:
Blowing in the wind
How many roads must a man 
before you can call
a man?
How many
must a white sail
before she can sleep in the sand?
Yes and how many times must
balls fly
before they're forever?
before you can call
a man?How many
must a white sailbefore she can sleep in the sand?
Yes and how many times must
balls flybefore they're forever
?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
Yes and how many years can a 
exist
before it's to the seas (sea)
Yes and how many years can some people exist
before they're allowed to be ?
Yes and how many times must a man his head
that he just don't see?
existbefore it's
to the seas (sea)Yes and how many years can some people exist
before they're allowed to be
?Yes and how many times must a man
his head that he just don't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
Yeah and how many times must a man 
before he can see the?
before he can see the
?
Yes and how many ears one man have
before he can hear people cry?
one man havebefore he can hear people cry?
Yes and how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have
That too many people have
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind?
The answer is blowin' in the wind?
Choose the best option according to what the lyrics of the song convey:
The author of the song criticizes:
- Politicians
- Dead people
- Mankind
He says that man needs to:
- Turn his head
- Change
- Look to the future
What has stopped man from seeing reality?
- Ignoring the truth
- Understanding reality
- Being free
