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Young People's Rights			Needs and Wants: Reflect on the difference between needs and wants. On Our Island An activity exploring what rights you think everyone should be entitled to and introduce the UDHR Rapid Rights: Participants examine the impact of having your rights partially or completely removed. Right Suit An activity highlighting how you don't always get to exercise your rights. Right to Learn Participants explore education as a right and its importance to young people's development. Play Right Participants look at the conditions necessary for young people to be able to play. You have the Right to Remain Silent An activity to highlight the right of young people to have their voice listened to. The World We Want: Explore what rights are being denied to young people in the world You've got to Fight for your Right: An activity exploring the lives of young people who are taking action for rights
Racism			Club Auction: Participants explore the diversity of groups to which we each belong Mind-Mapping Ireland Participants explore how Irish people and people from other countries view Irish identity Give Me Five! This activity encourages participants to explore the contribution they can and do make to their local community Monster in The Middle : To explore the variety of groups to which we belong and our attitudes to people in these groups What About Me? Participants explore how our perceptions of minority groups affect our behaviour towards them The Walk of Life To encourage young people to reflect on the experiences of minority groups The Exclusion Game This activity will enable participants to exerience exclusion and domination in a safe environment Label Jars Not People Participants explore stereotyping and prejudices and the impact these have on other people Know Your Place! Participants explore class prejudice Spending €19.10 Highlighting the injustice experienced by asylum seekers in Ireland The Myths & Facts Game To challenge myths surrounding groups that experience inequalities in Ireland His and Her Collages To examine gender stereotypes and sexual discrimination worldwide Mapping Mates Participants explore some of the reasons for migration On Route to Ireland Role Plays: Participants explore some of the reasons for migration Get Packing To explore the difficult decisions faced by people seeking asylum and to encourage empathy with them I Believe Participants consider the differences and similarities between and within religions Design and Inclusive Youth Club: To consider the ways in which a club or organisation can exclude people
Power and Justice			Power Is... Participants identify and explore sources of power Powerful If... To help participants explore how young people experience power differently and between different countries. Power Collage Participants examine the power of images and messages to affect how we see the world. Paradise of Integrity Participants look at the link between power and integrity The Links of Power Participants: how power is shared out: 4 issues - trade, debt, climate change and child labour. The Wall Participants explore how walls contribute to some people having power and others being powerless. Imagining the Future An activity to explore the impact of the Separation Walls and Peace Walls We have the Power! Explore actions being taken by young people around the world and what action young people can take. Promises to Keep An activity highlighting the promises that have been made to tackle poverty globally A Piece of Justice.pdf A to Z of Justice.pdf Act of Justice.pdf Blind Justice.pdf Chains of Justice.pdf Chat Show.pdf Fair Price.pdf Get Your Voice Heard.pdf Hand of Justice.pdf Impact of Justice.pdf In All Fairness.pdf Just Agree.pdf Just Systems.pdf Kangaroo Court.pdf Law Makers & Law Breakers.pdf Quizzical Justice.pdf Rap it Up.pdf The Disappeared.pdf Rivers of Change.pdf Working Together for a Just World.pdf
Peace			Conflict Is: To enble young people to express their ideas about what conflict is What is Violence To encourage young people to explore hw violence, which arises from conflict, occurs on many different levels Deal with it! To enable participants to examine the way they deal with conflict situations What's the Story? Young people explore ways in which conflicts happen and how they can be solved Handling Conflict: To allow participants to examine different approaches to handling conflict situations Don't Say a Word To help participants undestand how assumptions and lack of communication can result in conflict War Games: Participants explore the impact war had on people and their environment Images of Peace, Images of Conflict To understand the role that images of peace or conflict play in influencing our perceptions Picture this: To encourage participants to explore attitudes to peace and conflict through images Children and Conflict To help young people explore the impact conflict has on children who are caught up in it Questioning Conflict To explore the extent of conflict around the world and the impact it has had on people's lives Scorched Earth Particpants examine the impact conflict has on the environment Justice for West Papau To allow participants a chance to examine the causes of conflict in West Papau The Price of Peace : Participants explore how the Millenium Development Goals can achieve peace globally Smile for Peace: Participants explore how to begin transforming conflict Gacaca says... Participants explore the need for conflict to be acknowledged in order for people to build peace A Different Perspective To provide participants with an alternative way of looking at a conflict Building Peace: Participants explore how groups need to compromise in order to achieve peace Road Map for Peace: Participants use real life examples of conflict to explore where the road to peace lies Wall or Fall? Participants investigate how the Separation Wall will affect lasting peace in Israel and Palestine.
Participation			Alphabet Who? : To explore the effects of participating or not participating for young people Give it Up : That young people debate their understanding and attitudes to youth participation Participation Pyramid To encourage young peope to explore the value of participation Bridge the Gap : To examine barriers to participation Make Your Mark That young people reflect on experiences of participating or being prevented from participating It's Not Fair To increase participants' awareness of global inequality and barriers to young peoples participation Linked Together : To enable young people to examine how their lives are linked to the lives of people all over the world Fantastic Four: To explore ways that young people can participate to tackle global poverty Flag it Up! To encourage young people to explore the different ways in which young people around the world participate for a be All Aboard the Citizen Ship: To identify the motivations for young people voting or not voting Stepping Up: To explore how young people participate in different ways and the barriers to some young people's participation Every Picture Tells a Story To compare and contrast the different ways young people participate aroud the world Well Wishers To explore the impact of participating to tackle poverty Working Together for a Just World.pdf Action Matrix.pdf
Images and Messages			Do You See What I See? Holiday Snaps Picture This Follow_the_Leader.pdf All_at_Sea.pdf Fair_Photos_Unfair_Lives.pdf Paparazzi.pdf Spot_the_Difference.pdf Influ-lenses.pdf Culture_Bodies.pdf Cultionary.pdf Development_is....pdf The_Whole_Story.pdf Whispers.pdf Listen_Up.pdf Headline_Hysterics.pdf Cartoon_Controversy.pdf
Health			A Woman's World: To investigate health issues for girls and women around the world Balloon Busters: To highlight issues affecting young people's health in Ireland and the Developing World Food for Thought: That the group understands the link between food, hunger and poverty around the world Health Bands: To identify the conditions necessary for people to be healthy Health Box: To highlight the conditions necessary in order for people to be healthy Health Slam: To provide a space for participants to explore justice issues related to health in developed and developing countri Healthy Steps: To highlight the injustice that exists related to health around the world I Feel Healthy: To examine what health means to young people Mapping Health: To highlight the impacts and influences on different aspects of health Myths and Facts: To explore young people’s knowledge of sexual health around the world. Photo Opportunity: To encourage young people to identify actions to promote global health Picture of Health To highlight health issues for young people around the world Positive Life That participants understand the impact of HIV and AIDS on the health and well-being of young people Scoring Goals: To highlight the Millenium Development Goals Thats the Spirit: To explore what contributes to spiritual health Water Water Everywhere: To interactively explore the use we make of water in our everyday lives and how it is unequally distribu What's in an Image? and Ad Nauseum: Explore the influence that images have on young people's understanding of health. Who Do You Think? World Cup Quiz: To compare health statisitics for countries that competed in the Fifa 2006 World Cup
Globalisation and Trade			Make a Statement: To help participants express their own understanding of the concept of globalisation Good Globe Bad Globe To explore with participants the positive and negative effects of globalisation How much to live? Participants look at how families are struggling to meet their basic needs in different parts of the world. Fair Share? How the dependence on the export of primary agricultural commodities such as coffee and banannas causes poverty Top Traders: Participants explore the effect of global trade rules on people's lives. A Woman's Place An activity to explore how globalisation of trade has led to the exploitation of women in the developing world. It's only a mobile An exploration of the global effects of mobile phone production. Social Protests Examines how people can achieve change, locally and globally by joining together to protest about injustice.
Education			A Day in the Life: Investigate the links between daily life in the developed world and the developing world. Fitting In: how limited access to education affects choices in life and the importance of youth work in young peoples' lives. Who's Missing Out : To explore who is missing an education in Ireland and around the world Going Round in Circles To examine the causes and effects of children and young people missing an education. Dasily Duties To examine the tasks that girls do as part of a normal day and the effect this has on their education Girls Allowed: Why girls and young women are less likely to receive an education and the impact this has on their lives.
Climate Change			Fantastic Four: To explore ways that young people can participate global poverty linked to trade, aid, debt and climate change. Getting Warmer Young people learn about the causes and effects of climate change. Chain Reactions: To highlight the causes and effects of climate change. Stop Climate Chaos Participants explore how young people can take action to tackle climate change. Rivers of Change.pdf
Child Labour Activities			The Good the Bad and the Ugly: To help participants understand what is good and what is bad about children working Young People and Work:- Participants explore the positive and negative attributes of children and young people working A Job for Life? Participants examine the effects of work on young people's development Child Labour is... Examining what child labour is, what it is not and the type of work child labourers are exploited to do Let's March Against Child Labour : To explore how different types of work affect children and young peoples rights The Hidden Causes of Child Labour : Participants explore the different causes of child labour around the world Worst forms of Child Labour: Participants work to understand the effects of the worst forms of child labour Nouroudine's Story: - Participants begin to understand who is responsible for child labour Who is Responsible? :- To show how we are all responsible for child labour Drum out child labour: encourage participants to understand that simply banning child labour will not solve the problem What Do We Want? : Exploring the alternatives to the exploitation of children for work

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