The purpose of this study is to investigate how the theme of human rights is portrayed in printed teaching materials written for the high school courses social studies 1a1 and 1b respectively. A total of three series from two publishers are analysed, which are the Kompass series, the Liber series, and the Arena series, where each series contains a course 1a1 and 1b. This study will fall under a qualitative content analysis with a comparative element and will use a semiotic-didactic analysis model. The result shows that the subject content of the textbooks for human rights fulfills the central content for the courses social studies 1a1 and 1b respectively. The textbooks differ regarding how big a place the theme of human rights was given in the textbook. The textbooks have several similarities and differences in composition and form of expression.