Answer Key for Activity 1

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Here are five ways you could have improved this sample Plan of Action:

• “Encourage media corporations to break alliances with governments and their agencies to eliminate national bias. All forms of media should be unconditionally objective, fair and balanced in both content and presentation,
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This should not be part of the preamble because it is an operative clause that is specifically set out to achieve a goal.
• “2. Tolerance education at an early age (grade school).
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There should be an operative phrase in the beginning of this clause such as “Begin tolerance education at an early age (grade school).”
• “9. Recognize that AIDS is a threat to much of the world.
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This is a statement that should also include a clause that contains a single idea or policy proposal e.g. Recognize that AIDS is a threat to much of the world and encourage a collective effort to battle this disease.
• “11. Media, in all its forms, is readily available to everyone. All sides and/or points of view within a specific event or conflict must be fairly represented. Further, differing positions regarding international events should be equally available, regardless of national opinion.
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There should be an operative phrase in the beginning of this clause such as “Ensure that media, in all its forms, is readily available to everyone. All sides and/or points of view within a specific event or conflict must be fairly represented. Further, differing positions regarding international events should be equally available, regardless of national opinion.”
• “16. Recognizing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its efforts in proclaiming that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, or other status.”

This should be part of the preamble and not the operative clause section because it is a general statement that explains the purpose of this plan of action in reference to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.