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Global Campus Human Rights Journal (GCHRJ) is an open access journal published under the auspices of the Global Campus of Human Rights, and is supported financially by the European Union. No fees are charged for submission, article processing or publication.

The journal welcomes submissions on a wide range of topics relating to the fields of human rights and democratisation, but particularly welcomes contributions that speak to the Global Campus of Human Rights: Vision, Mission and Strategic Objectives 2024-2028.

Call for Papers (Volume 9, 2025)! 📅 Submission Deadline: 15 December 2025

📌 Topics: GCHRJ welcomes submissions on a wide range of topics relating to the fields of human rights and democratisation at the local, national, regional and global levels. We particularly encourage multi- and inter-disciplinary perspectives and welcome a range of methodological approaches.

🔗 Read the full Call for Papers on the e-journal’s open-access website: https://lnkd.in/d8xgKeEG

 Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching and companion website offer a collection of lessons, essays, articles, primary documents, and poetry to help educators move beyond a “heroes and holidays” approach to teaching about the Civil Rights Movement in pre-K–12 classrooms.

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Join us on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York for an informative and inspiring professional development event featuring the latest Native Knowledge 360° resources.

Learn about the roles Haudenosaunee leaders and communities played during the American Revolution with a deep dive into two powerful new tools designed to bring Native voices and experiences into your classroom:

• Native Women Leading the Way: From Revolution to the Future is a teaching poster that spotlights three remarkable Native women who led their communities through the conflict of the American Revolution and beyond.
• How Did the Haudenosaunee Persevere Through the American Revolution? is an engaging digital book tailored for middle school students that emphasizes the resilience of the Haudenosaunee people.

>> Resource 

November 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM–2:30 PM ET, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN, NEW YORK, NY 

>> Register

We offer recommended books for pre-K–12 that challenge stereotypes and focus on contemporary Native Americans. Our list is drawn from books recommended by Debbie Reese of American Indians in Children’s Literature.

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The relaunched Teaching Hard History podcast series is back with two episodes exploring how to use films and documentaries to teach critical history. 

Host Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D., is joined by film historian Ron Briley, sharing practical, actionable strategies to use film in learning settings to frame the narrative of complex topics, including American slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction. 

The new resource pages for Season 1: American Slavery: Episode 8: Film and the History of Slavery and Episode 9, featuring 10 additional films, are now available!

Nest course starts today, October 20!

In this course, learners will explore the impact problematic narratives about Native Americans have on society and student education, as well as learn ways to recognize and share more complete narratives, both inside and outside the classroom.

Through November 7, 2025, virtual 

This course is free. 

>> Learn more and register  

We are delighted to share the publication by Teresa M. Cappiali of a new open-access book, Transformative-Emancipatory Pedagogy (TEP) to Reimagine Education: Tackling Controversies in Diverse Settings (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).

 Access the book (Open Access): SpringerLink

Alongside it, she has also released the first booklet of the TEP® Booklet Series (published by NOIWE), which offers a short, practical entry point into the approach:
 Download the booklet in English or French

Beyond the publications, her aim is to build a global network and community around TEP—a vision of education as a transformative, humanizing, and justice-oriented practice. If you’d like to be part of this journey, here’s the link:
 Join the TEP Community

October 9, 2025

2025 is the date for the Universal Period Review of human rights by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The UPR is a “unique mechanism of the Human Rights Council that calls for each UN Member State to undergo a peer review of its human rights records every 4.5 years” (UNHRC). 2025 is the date for the U.S. UPR, its fourth review since the establishment of the UPR in 2006 and initial reviews in 2008.

Due to the United State’s withdrawal from the UPR in August of 2025 (Reuters) and refusal to participate scheduled UPR on November 7, 2025, HRE USA has joined other human rights organizations and civil society in co-signing on to the UPR Civil Society event for the People’s UPR and in support of UPR related events across the country. We have also co-signed and support The Advocates for Human Rights’ statement on the U.S. and the UPR (resources below.)

In the spring of 2025, we submitted reports for the UPR to the UNHRC with our organizational partners, which can be found Attacks on Academic Freedom: Columbia University and Beyond and PROTECTING THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION, ACADEMIC FREEDOM, AND HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES (2025).

>> Read the Advocate for Human Rights’ statement and video: U.S. Human Rights Organizations Demand Leadership in Face of U.S. Attempts to Destabilize World Human Rights Framework 

>> UNHRC Documents on the U.S. UPR

>> Read the Summary of Stakeholders’ Submission to the UPR

In response to the announcement by the United States that it would not participate in its Universal Periodic Review—a mechanism of the UN Human Rights Council—HRE USA has joined a coalition of civil society stakeholders to make our voices heard and advocate for our country’s participation. 

Event: The People’s UPR
Thursday, October 23, 2025, starting at 12pm (ET) at the Church Center of the United Nations (777 United Nations Plaza, in New York, NY.) Lunch will be served. 
The event will also be livestreamed for those who wish to view from afar.

The Fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United States has been set to take place in November 2025. The UPR is a unique United Nations Human Rights Council process that allows all United Nations Member States to undergo a peer review of their human rights records every 4.5 years. So far this year, the United States government is refusing to participate in this process. Nonetheless, U.S. civil society will mobilize to ensure that people’s voices are heard through important testimonies to build a record toward addressing human rights violations here in the United States. As part of those efforts to build a record, a People’s UPR is being organized as a side event during the Third Committee Session at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, NY.  We hope that the People’s UPR will be attended by United Nations, Country Mission, and Embassy staffers both in NY and in Geneva (via Zoom).

There will be opportunities for directly impacted persons (a ‘directly impacted person’ is someone who is personally and directly affected by the law, policy, practice, act or omission by the government) to testify in-person during the People’s UPR regarding human rights issues in the United States. The event will be livestreamed but there will be no opportunities for persons to testify live via the web. Instead, we will play prerecorded testimony received via video ahead of time from persons who cannot attend in-person.

>> Register (in-person or livestream) 
>> See the UPR-Related Calendar of Events