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IJHRE Issue 5 – HRE and Black Liberation

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Situating Black activism and movement building in its historical context, this special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights Education (IJHRE) features articles, essays, commentaries, and book reviews that put the longstanding call for Black lives to matter and the quest for Black liberation in conversation with human rights education as a field of scholarship and practice.

The IJHRE is an independent, double-blind, peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal dedicated to the examination of the theory, philosophy, research, and praxis central to the field of human rights education. This journal seeks to be a central location for critical thought in the field as it continues to expand.

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The Cause of All Humanity – The ICC

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Friday, February 19, 2021
Time: 10 am – 11 am ET
Where: Live Stream on Zoom
Cost:  FREE

Join the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy for a presentation by Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, President of the International Criminal Court on “the case of all humanity” Why the United States should support the ICC.” His talk will be followed by a panel discussion.

PANELISTS
Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji | President, International Criminal Court
Dr. Geoff Dancy | Associate Professor Department of Political Science, Tulane University
Dr. Phuong Pham | Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director of Evaluation and Implementation Science, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI)
Dr. Kathryn Sikkink (Moderator) | Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

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Teach Amanda Gorman’s 2021 Inauguration Poem, The Hill We Climb”

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National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman’s poem “The Hill We Climb,” written for the 2021 inauguration, presents a great opportunity for educators and students to discuss the ways creative expression can help us think about the meaning of democracy. Check out these great lessons below, to get inspired. 

Workshop Series on Decolonial & Anti-Racist Pedagogy

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Friday, February 12, 2021
Time: 12:00 -1:30 pm ET
Where: Live Stream on Zoom
Cost:  Free

Description:
A virtual workshop series that will introduce attendees to the theory, historical context, and necessity for decolonial and anti-racist teaching, as well as offer practical tips on how to implement these approaches in the classroom. The series is presented in partnership by Florida Atlantic University’s Peace Justice Human Rights Initiative, the University of Connecticut’s Human Rights Institute (HRI) and the University and College Consortium on Human Rights Education (UCCHRE). See workshop descriptions and registration links below:

  • Friday, February 12, 12:00-1:30 p.m.: Workshop #1: “Decolonial Pedagogy: Theory, Historical Context, and Necessity.” Hosted by Bianca Nightengale-Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Curriculum, Culture, and Educational Inquiry at FAU. The workshop facilitators are Saran Stewart, Associate Professor of Education at the University of Connecticut; MilagrosCastillo-Montoya, Ed.D., Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Connecticut; and Kristi Rudelius-Palmer, UCCHRE, Human Rights Education Consultant and doctoral candidate in Leadership for Intercultural and International Education at the University of Minnesota. Register in advance for this meeting: here. Click here to download the event flyer.
  • Friday, February 26, 12:00-1:30 p.m.: Workshop #2: “Decolonial Pedagogy: Practical Implementation.” Hosted and facilitated by Bianca Nightengale-Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Curriculum, Culture, and Educational Inquiry at FAU. Register in advance for this meeting: here.
  • Monday, March 15, 12:00-1:30 p.m.: Workshop #3: “Anti-Racist Pedagogy: Theory, Historical Context, and Necessity.” Hosted by Bianca Nightengale-Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Curriculum, Culture, and Educational Inquiry at FAU. The workshop facilitator is David Bynes, Assistant Director, Office for Diversity Education and Training, Center for IDEAS, FAU and doctoral student in Curriculum and Instruction within FAU’s College of Education. Register in advance for this meeting: here.
  • Monday, March 22, 12:00-1:30 p.m.: Workshop #4: “Anti-Racist Pedagogy: Practical Implementation.” Hosted and facilitated by Bianca Nightengale-Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Curriculum, Culture, and Educational Inquiry at FAU. Register in advance for this meeting: here.

Using Puppetry to Teach Human Rights

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Friday, February 19, 2021
Time: 4 pm – 5pm ET
Where: Live Stream on Zoom
Cost:  FREE

Description:
Puppetry is a proven technique in education and has been used to teach a variety of topics to children of all ages. This workshop will employ the ancient puppetry technique of shadow puppetry and demonstrate how one can create a shadow show in the classroom with simple materials such as cardboard, straw and a flashlight. 

This workshop will focus on the issue of immigration using the book La Frontera: El Viaje Con Papa/My Journey with Papa by Deborah Mills, Alfredo Alva, and Claudia Navarro. Many young people do not know or understand the importance when people decide to leave their home country for another.  This workshop will open dialogue not only on the tough decisions made in leaving one’s own country, but the difficulties of being an immigrant in a new country.

Presenter:
Neda Izadi received her B.F.A of puppetry from the University of Sooreh, Tehran in 2010.  Born in Tehran, Iran, Neda moved to the United States to study puppetry in the department of Fine Arts at the University of Connecticut in 2017.  She graduated with an M.F.A in Drama with a focus on Puppetry in 2020. She began working with Dodd Impact in July 2020 on human rights educational workshops for high school teachers and students.

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This event is sponsored by Dodd Human Rights Impact and Human Rights Educators USA

Racial Justice Resource Collection for Educators

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As part of our commitment to anti-racism and non-discrimination, HRE USA has created a Racial Justice Resource Collection to help educators engage their students on issues of racism through a human rights lens.

Although race is now generally understood to be a social construct without scientific significance among human beings, concepts of race continue to affect people’s lived experience through racism, the institutionalized practices of preference and discrimination based on differences of what is presumed to be race. 

The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD, Race Convention, 1965) addresses all forms of distinction, exclusion, restriction, or preference based on race as a violation of fundamental human rights and defines “racial discrimination” to mean:

… any distinction, exclusion, restriction, or preference based on race, color, descent, or national or ethnic origin that has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms …

The collection was developed in partnership with contributing members of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Human Rights Education Community and Human Rights Educators USA (HRE USA)

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unMASKing: Human Rights and the Pandemic

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Saturday, February 20th
Time: 11am-1pm CT
Where: Live Stream on Zoom
Cost:  Free

Description:
Guide your students to navigate the pandemic through multimedia lessons and activities! The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated existing human rights challenges including social and economic rights such as the rights to education, food and health. The two-hour virtual workshop will introduce educators to “unMASKing: The Pandemic Curriculum Project” and possibilities for its use in the classroom or other learning environments. The workshop will provide opportunities to collaborate across classrooms. The program is open to educators, parents and administrators in all settings (classrooms, organizations & homes).

Facilitators:
Elana Haviv is the founder and director of Generation Human Rights (GenHR)
Felisa Tibbitts is co-founder and director of Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) and lecturer at Teachers College of Columbia University.

This workshop is being funded by a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education and organized by the Institute of World Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The program is co-sponsored by Human Rights Educators USA, the University and College Consortium for Human Rights Education, and the UW-Milwaukee Center for Global Health Equity.

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HRE in humanitarian settings: opportunities and challenges

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Time: 11.30 -12.30 ET
Where: Live Stream
Cost:  Free

Description: “HRE in humanitarian settings: opportunities and challenges“
Presenters: Megan Devonald and Silvia Guglielmi, Overseas Development Institute, UK 

In this session the presenters discuss how, and to what extent, non-formal programmes targeting adolescent refugees address education about, through and for human rights. HRE in humanitarian settings provides an opportunity for adolescent refugees to understand and exercise their human rights, respect the rights of others, and gain active citizenship skills. Yet in this mixed method study, the researchers find stark differences in how human rights are reflected in programming for refugees. In Jordan, the Makani programme for Syrian refugees integrates human rights across subjects and teacher pedagogy, and fosters skills for active citizenship. By contrast, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, a lack of basic rights hinders the delivery of meaningful human rights education for Rohingya adolescents. The researchers conclude that human rights education should be a core pillar of humanitarian responses, but that it needs significant adaptations to meet learners’ needs in specific contexts.   

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International Day of Education 2021 Symposium

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Monday, January 25, 2021
Time: 9:30 am CST
Where: Live Stream
Cost:  Free

Description: Education: A Human Right, a Public Good, and a Public Responsibility
In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe, a majority of countries announced the temporary closure of schools, impacting more than 91% of students worldwide. As International Day of Education focuses global attention on this issue, what actions can we take to improve outcomes for all?

Even before the pandemic struck, 258 million children and youth did not attend school; 617 million children and adolescents could not read or do basic math; less than 40% of girls in sub-Saharan Africa completed lower secondary school; and some four million children and youth refugees were out of school.

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) challenge all nations to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” by the year 2030. Join this event and mark the International Day of Education 2021 with local and international experts who will discuss how inclusive, quality education will be critical in supporting our most vulnerable populations post-COVID, in achieving gender equality, in breaking the cycle of poverty, and in securing a peaceful and prosperous future for everyone.

Learners of all ages are invited to join and hear from the leaders who are shaping the future of education.

Featured Speakers

  • Audrey Azoulay, Director General, UNESCO
  • David Edwards, General Secretary, Education International
  • Neel Kashkari, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
  • Justice Alan Page (retired), Founder/Chair, Page Educational Foundation
  • Atul Tandon, CEO, Opportunity International
  • Sondra Samuels, President/CEO, Northside Achievement Zone
  • Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, President of the California State Board of Education, Head of Education Transition Team for President-elect Joe Biden
  • Jack Dangermond, Founder and CEO, Esri

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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.