This lesson plan provides an opportunity to explore human rights violations and international courts of law. Students focus primarily on the case study of Slobodan Miloseviç's regime.
For Educators
Accountability for Human Rights Violations: Introduction
Are All Children at the Same Starting Gate?: Introduction
In this lesson, students get a glimpse of education's status, role, and impact in developing and developed nations; explore the factors that impede schooling; examine efforts to ensure universal access to education; and undertake a project that supports these efforts.
Birth of a Surgeon: Introduction
(Encore presentation: July 15, 2009) Birth of a Surgeon travels to Mozambique where, for the first time, midwives are being trained in advanced life-saving surgery. Suffering from an acute shortage of doctors, Mozambique's bold grassroots initiatives have cut the maternal death rate in half.
Brazil in Black and White: Issues to Consider
How does a society guarantee equal opportunity for its people? Does affirmative action work?
Brazil in Black and White: Map
Brasilia and Sao Paulo, Brazil
Program Summary
Brazil has long presented itself as a "racial democracy" but deep disparities in income, education and employment have finally prompted a campaign for equal treatment for Afro-Brazilians. Brazil in Black and White captures a unique moment as a nation looks in the mirror.
Brazil in Black and White: Themes and Video Segments
This is a list of important themes and video segments that can be used in classroom discussions of Brazil in Black and White.
Brazil in Black and White: Video Segment 1
Seventeen-year-old Josie de Souza is one of almost 23,000 students taking this year's entrance exam for the University of Brasilia. She hopes to be one of those admitted under its new racial quota system.
Brazil in Black and White: Video Segment 2
Iolanda dos Santos and her family moved to Brasilia from a poor region of northeast Brazil. She is currently undecided whether or not she should apply to the university under the racial quota system.
Brazil in Black and White: Video Segment 3
To participate in the University of Brasilia's quota program, applicants must do something most have never been required to do - identify themselves as black.
Brazil in Black and White: Video Segment 4
The University of Brasilia's affirmative action process is about to enter a crucial week. Students who have identified themselves as Afro-Brazilian must pose for a photograph that will be evaluated by a secret committee. This panel will try to determine whether students look "black enough" to qualify for the quota system.
Brazil in Black and White: Vocabulary and Resources
glossary, suggested reading and Web sites
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Overview
The collapse of the Soviet State in 1991 was followed by Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev's declaration of the Chechen Republic's independence from Moscow.
China’s Rule of Law: Changing with the Times?: Introduction
Students identify and analyze the positive and negative effects of China's changing legal system. They examine the nation's rule of law to determine its improvement potential and build on their findings to design a program to promote a just and efficient legal system in China.








