Pathfinders
Human rights
These research suggestions and websites might help you with your research about people who have helped the world
Subject headings, keywords
Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Kate Sheppard, Dame Whina Cooper, Princess
te Puea Herangi, Te Whiti-o-Rongomai, AungSan Suu Kyi, Mother Teresa, William Wilberforce, Suzanne Aubert, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Fry, Pankhurst, Helen Keller, Bob Geldof, Florence Nightingale, Oscar Schindler, John Minto, Lech Walesa, Bishop Desmond Tutu
Dewey Numbers: - 920 and in the 'Biography' section
Reference:
Encyclopedias: World Book, Britannica, New Zealand Encyclopedia, Biographies
On-line databases and websites:
Britannica Online http://www.tki.org.nz/r/epic/
login on the left side of the page under the EPIC heading
login - darfieldhs, password: 22darfieldhs.
Scroll down to blue highlighted links - 'Britannica online school edition K-12'
or the 'Discovering Collection' (also biographies and science plus more)
Choose either Primary, Secondary or High School levels or 'search all levels'Websites:
http://www.amnesty.org.nz/ human rights organisation
http://www.hrc.co.nz/human-rights-environment/ Human rights commission NZ, current info
http://www.hrw.org/ protection of human rights of people from around the world.
http://www.humanrights.net.nz/ meeting place for NZers with an interest and commitment to human rights.
http://www.un.org/children/conflict/english/issues.html United Nations and issues of human rights especially children in warzones.
http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/child-labour/lang--en/index.htm child labour
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95oct/mkgandhi.html Gandhi
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/gandhi_mohandas.shtml Gandhi http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1979/teresa-bio.html Mother Teresa
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html Martin Luther King
http://www.anc.org.za/people/mandela.html scroll down for a brief biography of Nelson Mandela
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REwilberforce.htm William Wilberforce http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html Harriet Tubman
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1984/tutu-bio.html Bishop Tutu
http://www.oskarschindler.com/7.htm Oscar Schindler
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1983/walesa-bio.html Lech Walesa
ttp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/famouspeople/standard/nightingale/index.shtml click "learn" to find out about Florence Nightingale, easy reading
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/famouspeople/standard/fry/index.shtml click "learn" to find out about Elizabeth Fry, easy reading
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REfry.htm Elizabeth Fry1
http://www.unicef.org.nz/ child labour, poverty, welfare.
http://www.savethechildren.org.nz/