A direct experience of working together for something worthwhile may be achieved by forming a club to promote human rights.

Initiate a number of relevant tasks aimed at establishing such a club:

• Define the purpose of the Human Rights Club in more detail.
• Hold a competition for a club symbol.
• Make individual membership cards that carry this logo.
• Organize office-holders, blog or web site.
• Put up a special noticeboard or web news group for Human Rights Club activities.
• Find out about national and international human rights networks and organizations with which the club can liaise. Ask for their publications and display these where people can use them.
• Begin holding meetings – the first could discuss the right to freedom of association itself: “Why organize? Why it is important to take part in public affairs, locally, nationally and beyond?”
• Invite guest speakers (e.g. local politicians, issue specialists, area specialists) to give short talks and hold discussions.
• Set up sub-committees to meet and to research particular tasks.
• Commemorate International Human Rights Day, on December 10; find out about other International Days related to human rights and commemorate them. Click here to learn about more than 50 ideas for commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights!

A group could approach other group(s) (or classes in school) with offers to speak to them about particular human rights issues/areas, explaining why the club was formed and what it does, and offering associate membership; where resources permit, the club could also publish or put on line a regular newsletter.