Hello! I'm currently studying human rights in class, we've only had one lesson, but any tips you would personally recommend for this specific topic in terms of cases, essays or legislation?
Hi! The others have already responded but I thought I'd chuck in my two cents too
For the Human Rights topic, make sure you know or are familiar with EVERYTHING, because they can literally chuck any question at you in the exam (Short answers section... Yay!....) I had cases, international AND domestic legislation, and media articles for nearly every dotpoint in the Human Rights syllabus. Case studies are so important when responding to short answer questions and you want to make sure you've got evidence to back up what you're saying.
The general structure that I used when talking about a Human Rights concept in my notes: Definition --> Description or extra information --> Examples (cases, media articles, legislation) --> Ineffective and effectiveness
For the contemporary issue, you want to make sure you know a good amount of information because they usually allocate a large amount of marks to the question (6 or
In my notes, I usually wrote about the non-legal and legal responses of the domestic and international responses, and the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of each.
And I totally agree with Elyse's point! Definitely learn all those types of rights equally and don't favour one over the other. When I was studying, I put alot of my time into learning about the right to education (because it was super interesting) and in the HSC, trade union rights (which I didn't study much at all) was the short-answer question thrown at us. Whoops....