This guide provides support and guidance to educators who choose to participate in Amnesty International’s annual Write for Rights Initiative, a global letter writing campaign that focuses on individual experiences of human rights violations, with their classes. The target age range for the activity is 13-22 and the guide provides instructions on how to sign up for the initiative, some online resources, national teaching standards that relate to the letter writing campaign, sample lesson plans, answers to frequently asked questions, additional activities, supplemental information, and some templates for writing the letters.
