ABSTRACT
Human rights are at the center of global education but there exists among the general population massive ignorance about what human rights means. A full understanding of how human rights came to be defined cannot be reached without a close familiarity with its founding document, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Frequently overlooked or ignored by many, we cannot begin to understand its true significance without an appreciation of the history that informed it. It is impossible for example to understand the current migration crisis without grasping the nature of asylum and how the right of asylum became such an important human right. Students need to understand their own sense of agency and the different ways they can express their global citizenship. They also need to understand their agency as consumers in the global marketplace.
