December is Universal Human Rights Month, and Human Rights Day is observed annually around the world on Dec. 10. The theme for Human Rights Day 2025 is "Human Rights, Our Everyday Essentials," emphasizing that human rights are positive, essential and attainable.
Human Rights Day commemorates the anniversary of one of the world's most groundbreaking global pledges: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This landmark document enshrines the inalienable rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being—regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
Check out the following list of resources to help you incorporate human rights education into your mathematics classroom.
Human Rights Day - Resources
This list of resources from the United Nations includes educational material about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, plus websites related to human rights.
Human Rights Day Toolkit
Designed by the Human Rights Watch Student Task Force, this toolkit helps empower students and teachers to educate their communities about Human Rights Day. The webpage includes background information, basic human rights vocabulary, event planning ideas and lesson plans.
Human rights lesson plans
The Human Rights Education Library from Human Rights Educators USA is a curated, resource-rich collection of materials for K-12 educators. The library includes mathematics lesson plans, such as "A Guide for Integrating Social Justice Into Math Curriculum" (Grades 6-12) from Radical Math. You can also find curriculum, documents, manuals, articles, books and more. As civil rights activist and educator Bob Moses once said, "The most urgent social issue affecting poor people and people of color is economic access… [and that] depends crucially on math and science literacy."
Social Justice Mathematics Resources for K-12 Educators
This resource list from Math Social Issues, curated by mathematics education professor Kari Kokka, includes ready-to-use social justice math lessons, including lessons and templates from books, online resources, and college-level resources. It also features resources that help create social justice math lessons, social justice math tools and templates, other social justice math resource lists, justice-oriented mathematics education organizations and selected articles, books, videos, podcasts, websites, blogs and more.