Human Rights Education Associates

Using Fiction to Explore Human Rights: The Voices of Silence

Author

Book: Bel Mooney / Lesson: Amnesty International

Publisher

Amnesty International in partnership with People's Postcode Lottery

Place of Publication

Online

Year of Publication

N/A

Language

English

This lesson is intended to be used in conjunction with the book, The Voices of Silence Flora Popescu’s parents are planning to defect when daily life suddenly brings frightening changes – some linked to a friendship between Flora and a new boy at school. Unlike his poor classmates, Daniel dresses and eats well, and his father ranks high in the secret police. Flora slowly realises that her father is in danger and only she can save him from the secret police.
MMA: Written & spoken word
Freedom from discrimination, Freedom from slavery & servitude, Freedom from torture, Freedom of assembly and association, Freedom of movement, Freedom of opinion and expression, Freedom of thought, conscience & religion

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