New Educational Resource Videos By WissensWerte
WissensWerte is a german nonprofit organization that publishes and distributes a series of innovative animated videos for political education. Technically state of the art and didactically elaborated, the clips offer an exciting way to learn about politics.
Focus Human Rights: Violations, History, First Dimension
(Social sciences, History, International Politics)
This video is first part of the series "Focus Human Rights" deals with Civil and Political Rights, with Human Rights violations and the history of Human Rights. The film marks the start of the project "Focus Human Rights". The series will consist of an overview clip and of one clip about each of the three dimensions of Human Rights. The first dimension involves the Political and Civil Rights, the second dimension deals with the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the third dimension consists of the Collective Rights. In addition, a number of cross-cutting issues are explained. For example: the history of Human Rights, the role of non-governmental organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, or the problems of the Human Rights system. Together, the overview clip and the three specific clips provide a profound knowledge about the topic Human Rights.
Renewable Energy and the Energy Transition
(Earth Sciences, History, Current Events)
The world is driven by fossil fuels like oil and gas. This has some negative repercussions: Rising energy prices due to decreasing deposits, dependence on unstable oil and gas producing regimes and global warming. This means that changes must occur in the way we produce and use energy. Central to this energy transition are new technologies, which produce energy from renewable sources such as wind or sun. With Germany as an example, this video shows what renewable energies are and how they work as well as what the concept of energy transition means.
(Social Sciences, History, International Politics)
Almost everywhere in the world, international migration is a hot topic. Most of the time, the debate about migration is fierce and charged with prejudices and fears.
At the political level, this has far-reaching consequences, ranging from electoral victories of populist right-wing parties to the increasing isolation policy of Europe and the United States. But what exactly is migration? What are its causes? And what are problems and opportunities?
(History, Social Sciences, International Politics)
The world is becoming more and more interconnected. Globalization changes how people consume, work and live almost everywhere in the world. Today, many economic, political, cultural or ecological relationships are not explainable from a national perspective. At the same time, a controversial debate about the consequences of globalization has begun. But what are the main causes for globalization? In what areas it is most prominent? And who are the winners and looser of globalization?
