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Human Rights Watch Student Task Force – Job Announcement

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The Human rights Watch Student Task Force is hiring a Liaison for their L.A. office. They seek a highly qualified Liaison to create digital human rights education programming and toolkits in support of the Student Task Force’s annual advocacy/activism campaigns. The Liaison will also develop and implement plans to reach a growing constituency of students and teachers, with special attention to under-served students in Los Angeles-area schools with inadequate resources for human rights education. This is an opportunity to help expand HRW’s human rights education advocacy efforts and mobilize the next generation of human rights advocates on the most pressing human rights issues of the day.

Application Deadline: May 7, 2021

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Congratulations to our 2021 Edmonds Summer Fellows

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HRE USA is excited to announce our 2021 Edmonds Summer Fellows:

Ashleigh Deno is a senior preparing for graduation from Murray State University in May with a Bachelor’s in Secondary History Education. She is currently student teaching at Murray High School in Murray, KY. Ashleigh will be working on developing HRE USA’s online media strategy.

Winnie Ho is a Program Coordinator for the National Resource Center for Academic Detailing (NaRCAD) in Boston, MA. Winnie will be working on landscape mapping, organizational outreach, and relationship-building with HRE USA partners.

Danielle Lucksted is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Sociology at Stony Brook University, NY, and has an M.A. in Human Rights from University College London and an M.A. in Humanities and Social Thought from New York University. Danielle will be working with HRE USA to develop a virtual Training of Trainers for human rights educators.

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Gender and Racial Justice through a Human Rights Lens

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Friday, April 23, 2021
Time: 5:30 – 7:30 Pacific
Where:  Virtual Webinar
Cost: FREE

Description:
The International & Multicultural Education (IME) Department at the University of San Francisco invites you to join “Gender and Racial Justice through a Human Rights Lens: A Dialogue with Loretta Ross & Dawn Wooten.” The discussion will be moderated by IME Professors Dr. Emma Fuentes & Dr. Monisha Bajaj, and students from the IME Department. The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. 

  • Loretta J. Ross is an activist, public intellectual, and scholar, and currently is a Visiting Associate Professor at Smith College. She is the author of multiple books, including Reproductive Justice: An Introduction (with Rickie Solinger, 2017) and Calling In the Calling Out Culture: Detoxing Our Movement due out in 2021.
  • Dawn Wooten has risked her life and career to make sure that women’s human rights are not being abused or violated. As the ICE whistleblower, she brought attention to the conditions and procedures at a privately owned Detention Facility in Georgia in 2020. She is a mother currently pursuing her nursing degree.

This event is presented by the University of San Francisco, International & Multicultural Education Department and sponsored by HRE USA

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Summer Institute – Climate Change Education

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: July 28-30, 2021
Where: Virtual
Cost: $250
Scholarships available

Description:
Join Climate Generation for a virtual conference on climate change education with educators from across the country! Gain the skills, tools, and resources to teach climate change in all subject areas.  This three-day Institute is structured to allow time for learning and national networking on the first and last days. Educators will attend a regional cohort workshop facilitated by a regional cohort leader on the second day to focus on place-based climate change education and the need for ongoing support throughout the year. This small group of 20-50 educators will explore local impacts, actionable solutions, connections to local experts, and planning and networking. All aspects of the Institute will be held virtually.

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Brief – Human Rights Education: What Works?

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Human rights education is increasingly acknowledged as an essential part of building a human rights culture. But does it work? This brief by the Danish Institute for Human Rights reviews existing literature on human rights education for children, presenting an overview of findings on the outcomes of human rights education.

The studies include academic articles, book chapters and evaluation reports from the period 2000-2020. Methods for measuring human rights education outcomes include quantitative surveys; qualitative interviews, focus groups; observations; and document collection. The studies vary from small-scale ethnographic studies involving a few dozen people to large-scale surveys including 100,000 respondents.

White Supremacy in Education

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We know white supremacy is woven into the fabric of American culture and society. It’s also woven into our education system. The Spring 2021 issue of Teaching Tolerance magazine, traces some of the threads of white supremacy through classrooms and schools—and how students, educators, and others are working to break those threads. 

Read this issue for stories about how white supremacy appears in curricula and policies, even in teacher training programs. Learn how educators and students are working to dismantle it in their communities. 

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Seizing Freedom Podcast

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Ending slavery in America required so much more than official declarations and battlefield victories.

Freedom gets built up over time—through a billion tiny, everyday acts. It’s there in the chance to enlist and fight for a cause. It’s there in the effort to reunite families torn apart by the cruelty of slave trading. It’s there in the right to learn to read or found a church or decide how you want to make a living. And it’s there in the insistence on the legal recognition of the right to do all these things.

That’s the freedom you’ll hear about on this podcast, and you’ll hear about it directly from the people who seized it. All of the stories on this show are drawn from archives of voices from American history that have been muted time and time again.

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Guide on Ensuring Access to Education During the Pandemic

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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has published a new practical guide on access to education in the context of COVID-19, the latest in a string of recent thematic publications and its second practical guide on the pandemic. [IACHR Press Release] The IACHR Rapid and Integrated Response Coordination Unit (SACROI) produced the guide in collaboration with the IACHR special rapporteurships on economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights and on freedom of expression. See IACHR, How to Ensure Access to the Right to Education for Children and Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic? (2020). 

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Teaching for Racial Justice

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Date: Friday, April 16, 2021
Time: 1 – 2 pm ET
Location: Virtual Webinar
Cost: FREE

Presenter: Justin Hansford, Executive Director, Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center, Howard University.

Description:
Justin Hansford will discuss his experience in community-based legal advocacy and address how he incorporates his practitioner experience into his teaching and scholarship. Hansford worked to empower the Ferguson community through community based legal advocacy. He co-authored the Ferguson to Geneva human rights shadow report and accompanied the Ferguson protesters and Mike Brown’s family to Geneva, Switzerland, to testify at the United Nations. He has served as a policy advisor for proposed post-Ferguson reforms at the local, state, and federal level, testifying before the Ferguson Commission, the Missouri Advisory Committee to the United States Civil Rights Commission, the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

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This event is part of a spring webinar series sponsored by the University and College Consortium for Human Rights Education (UCCHRE) and HRE USA.

RFK Human Rights Video and Music Contests

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The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights video and music contest deadlines have been extended! You still have time to use art as a tool for community building, self-expression, and collective transformation.

Music Contest
Students create a song that uses their own voices and perspectives to take a stand against human rights abuses. Their music can contribute to creating meaningful change on any pressing human rights issues such as racial justice, the right to health care, domestic violence, or criminal justice. The contest, presented in partnership with the GRAMMY Museum, is open to any genre of music, and entries will be judged by a panel of GRAMMY-nominated artists. The grand prize winner will perform at a GRAMMY-related event and participate in a virtual student showcase.

Music Contest Deadline: Monday, May 17 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.

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Video Contest
The Speak Truth video contest invites students to make a three- to five-minute video that uses creative storytelling to teach people about a human rights issue through the work of a human rights defender. This is an opportunity for students to share their thoughts on what is happening in the world around them in a creative and original way. The format is open to documentary, stop-motion, narrative, or other innovative explorations. The grand prize-winning film will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.

Video Contest Deadline: Monday, April 26 at 11:59 p.m. EDT

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We are grateful for the generous support of our members, individual donors, and The Puffin Foundation Ltd
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.