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  • Episode 79 with Maddy Wegner is available on Human Rights Education Now!

    Maddy Wegner is an educator and communications specialist with extensive experience in service-learning, youth engagement, communications, and human and child rights education. She has served in multiple roles with the National Youth Leadership Council, including Director of Content and Engagement and Director of Communications. Her work has included developing resources for service-learning practitioners, integrating human and child rights frameworks into educational practice, and creating educational materials inspired by Nobel Peace Prize laureates and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. She also serves on the Executive Committee for Minneapolis’ Child Friendly Cities Initiative and has been recognized for her contributions to service-learning.

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    Engage your students on issues of racial justice and human rights with this new educator resource collection.

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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.

Recent News

The 2026-2027 Training As Action Series (TAAS) is back in September!

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The 2026–2027 Training as Action Series will center on the theme, “Voices for Justice: Human Rights, Civic Action & Creative Resistance.” This year’s sessions will explore urgent issues such as immigration reform, protecting democracy, protest rights, and various forms of creative resistance, highlighting how human rights education can equip communities to respond with clarity, courage, and collective action.
Module 1: Campus Organizing and Resistance Mechanism will take place on September 14th, 7PM ET.

CORE Playbook: Continuity & Operational Readiness for Elections

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The playbook provides a modular, scalable framework with customizable templates to strengthen partnerships between election officials and emergency management teams. Its all-hazards, risk-informed approach helps local teams prepare for risks before, during, and after each election cycle.

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The core values of HRE USA and its partner organizations include transparency and critical thinking skills. We believe that human rights--and human rights education--belong to everyone, and that the full realization of human rights means that access to human rights education materials must never be conditioned upon the subscription to any particular religious faith, ideology, political affiliation, or membership in any particular organization and that any organizational connections should be openly acknowledged.