We are pleased to announce the availability of our latest installment of podcast episodes in Human Rights Education NOW! Human Rights Watch Student Task Force is a youth leadership-training program that brings together high school students with educators and empowers them to advocate for human rights issues, especially the rights of children. Pam Bruns is the Founder and Executive Director Emeritus. Kristin Ghazarians is the Senior Manager. Ren Zhang and Clementine Causse are two students working with the Human Rights Watch Student Task Force.
EPISODE 11: Human Rights Watch Student Task Force, Part One
In Episode 11, Pam Bruns details the origins of the HRW Student Task Force (STF), and Kristin Ghazarians discusses her interest in human rights and eventual engagement with STF. Pam, Clementine, and Ren share their initial interest in human rights work, while Ren and Clementine share their thoughts on the Task Force Student activism programs. Additionally, Pam and Kristin describe their experiences involving school faculty in STF activities, while Pam, Ren and Clementine discuss HRE professional development advances and challenges with faculty, administration and students. Finally, Clementine and Ren expound upon obstacles they have encountered in educating their peers about human rights and climate change.
Topics discussed:
- Origins of the HRW Student Task Force
- Interest in human rights and work with the STF
- STF activism programs
- Involvement of school faculty in STF activities
- Professional development advance and challenges
- Obstacles in educating peers about human rights and climate change
Full topic listing available for PDF download HERE.
Listen on our Buzzsprout podcast website HERE.
EPISODE 12: Human Rights Watch Student Task Force, Part Two
In Episode 12, Pam and Kristin discuss human rights and the intersection of local community issues, as well as deploying the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) as a framework for rights conversations. They discuss making personal connections to human rights, and the integration of human rights vocabulary into conversations at home and at school. Ren and Clementine share their thoughts on the importance of humanizing rights issues by describing their experiences related to human rights. They go on to discuss the link between compassion and advocacy; strategies to advance faculty understanding of HRE; and the importance of ongoing professional development and self-study about HRE. Pam and Kristin provide strategies for advancing HRE in the US, while Clementine and Ren share their thoughts on infusing HRE at home through family conversations, and the significance of learning how to engage with people who disagree with one’s views. The group then identifies their most influential role models in HRE, as well as the importance of perseverance in human rights work. Lastly, they each reference an impactful quote which sums up their views about human rights, and an important action they think would advance HRE in the US.
Topics discussed:
- Human rights and the intersection of local community issues
- UDHR as a framework for rights conversations
- Personal connections to human rights
- Integration of human rights vocabulary into conversations at home and school
- Importance of humanizing rights issues by sharing personal experience
- Link between compassion and advocacy
- Strategies to advance faculty understanding of HRE
- Importance of ongoing professional development about HRE
- Advancing HRE at home through family conversations
- Importance of learning how to engage individuals with differing views
- Influential role models in HRE and significant quotes summing up views on HRE
- Ideas about important actions which would advance HRE in USA
Full topic listing available for PDF download HERE.
Listen on our Buzzsprout podcast website HERE.
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