Ready-made presentations

The FORB Learning Platform has ready-made knowledge inputs on a range of topics in the form of  PowerPoint presentations with scripts and short explainer films. Contents for short talks on particular topics can also be found embedded in the instructions for running some of our workshop exercises. 

On this page you can find links to all the resources available. Many are available in multiple languages.

Ready-made PowerPoint presentations and scripts

The following presentations are designed for grassroots level audiences with little previous knowledge of human rights, but work well with most non-expert audiences. They form part of the Local Changemakers Course and are available in several languages.

Topic: Human needs – human rights – human responsibilities
Ideal for introducing the topic of human rights to audiences unfamiliar with the topic or that have misconceptions about human rights. (From Session 1 of the Local Changemakers Course.)
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Topic: Introducing FORB through storytelling with ‘The songs of the flute and the drum’
Ideal for helping your audience reflect on whether they value the rights FORB protects. Also enables a discussion of the right without mentioning human rights of FORB directly. (From Session 2 of the Local Changemakers Course.)
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Topic: Introducing freedom of thought, conscience, religion and belief
A presentation that introduces the contents of right while referring back to the story mentioned above. (From Session 2 of the Local Changemakers Course.)
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Topic: Identities and stereotypes
A short talk that helps participants reflect on perceptions of the other. (From Session 3 of the Local Changemakers Course.)
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Topic: Understanding violations of freedom of religion or belief
Helps participants to recognise the many different types of violations affecting men and women in different ways in different contexts. (From Session 4 of the Local Changemakers Course.)
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Topic: How things get worse, and better
Enables participants to understand change processes and analyse violations using Candelin’s three phase model of persecution.
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Topic: Tactics for promoting human rights
Enables your audience to recognise the many different approaches to tackling human rights problems that are possible.
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Topic: Our Change Journey – a visual tool for action planning
Introduces a simple but creative tool for developing action plans.
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(Note: For other language versions, please note which session of the Local Changemakers Course the presentation concerned comes from. Then click here to see if the course is available in your language, navigate to course materials and scroll down to find resources for that session.)

Short talks embedded in exercise descriptions