NOTE: OBTAIN YOUR PARENT’S PERMISSION BEFORE USING THE WEB 7a) Visit the Web site of the U.S. State Department (www.state.gov). Learn more about an issue you find interesting that is discussed on this Web site.
- What issue did you read about?
- Why is this issue in the news?
- What is the US position on this issue?
7b) Visit the Web site of an international news organization or foreign government, OR examine a foreign newspaper available at your local library, bookstore, or newsstand. Find a news story about a human right realized in the United States that is not recognized in another country.
- What Human Rights issue did you find, and what country is dealing with the issue?
- What is your opinion of the issue?
- Where did you find the information (what newspaper, web site?)
Suggestions: Three of the world’s most prominent news organizations are CNN, based in the USA, the BBC based in England, and Al Jazeera, an Arab channel based in
Qatar.
- www.cnn.com Site of CNN–type human rights into CNN’s search feature …make sure you select search CNN (not search the entire WWW)
- www.bbc.com Site of BBC–again use the BBC’s search window to search for “human rights” stories
- http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage Be ready for a very non-American view from this Arab news site.
- www.hrw.org Human Rights Watch…an international group, watches human rights..may be critical of the USA
- www.amnesty.org Amnesty International…similar to Human Rights Watch
