Professor Emeritus Jane Williams has built a distinguished career spanning legal practice, government legal service, academia, and civil society activism. She played a pivotal role in securing legislation on the rights of the child in Wales and was instrumental in the campaign for a Welsh Youth Parliament. At Swansea University, she co-founded the Observatory on Human Rights of Children (now the Observatory on Human Rights and Social Justice) and the Children’s Legal Centre Wales. Her scholarship and advocacy focus on devolution, child law, and children’s rights, and she has pioneered pedagogical innovations, including trans-Atlantic Street Law collaborations and human rights–based research with children.
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OUR MISSION The Human Rights Educators USA (HRE USA) is a collaborative network to learn, teach, organize, advocate, and innovate for human rights education in the United States.
Our hearts go out to the schoolchildren, teachers, families, and all those whose lives are being torn apart by the illegal and immoral war launched by the United States and Israel against the people of Iran. History teaches that the U.S. government cares nothing about democracy and human rights in the Middle East.
To help young people understand these events in context, teach about the 1953 U.S.- and Britain-orchestrated coup d’etat that toppled Iran’s democratically elected government. The Shah then took power and signed over 40 percent of Iran’s oil fields to U.S. companies.
Today in the United States we face a human rights emergency. The deployment of National Guard and ICE agents in major cities usurps the basic rights of residents as well as local authority. Rights to free speech and assembly are under attack, and courts are failing to hold leaders accountable to the law. The international human rights system can provide a court of appeal for situations like this. This panel of legal experts, advocates, and scholars will discuss how international human rights can be a tool for cities and local movements serving as the front line defenders of human rights.
Wednesday April 8, 6:00-7:15PM Eastern/ 3:00PM Pacific
Human Rights Watch: Reported findings that the United States is responsible for the recent deadly school attack in Iran, and that it was based on outdated targeting data, highlight the need for reform and accountability within the US military to minimize civilian harm during conflict.
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