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Teach Climate Network Workshop: Engaging Youth Through Climate Storytelling
Thursday, January 11th, 4pm CT
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What are climate stories? How can they be useful tools for teaching about climate change? What else can we learn through personal climate storytelling? Explore these questions and more in a two hour interactive workshop, “Engaging Youth Through Climate Storytelling.” The workshop will begin with an introduction to climate storytelling: what it is and why it matters, before grounding it within the classroom experience. Participants will then transition into a reflective writing exercise meant to get them started thinking about their climate story. The workshop will end with an invitation for participants to share their own experiences talking about climate change, and walk away with some practical resources and next steps for bringing climate storytelling to their students.
Apply now: Global Institute of Human Rights Certificate Program
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Global Institute for Human Rights Certificate Program, May 28-31, 2024 – Registration is now open.
The Global Institute of Human Rights Certificate Program is an immersive, live virtual online course of study aimed at undergraduate students, graduate students, and new career professionals passionate about a career in human rights advocacy, or just looking to enhance their understanding and awareness of the laws, norms, policies, movements, and strategies critical towards addressing the world’s most pressing human rights challenges. This opportunity is unique compared to traditional academic studies of human rights, as the focus of this program is to bring working human rights advocates from around the world to the table, allowing them to share their experiences with the next generation of human rights advocates.
Program highlights include:
- Theory Blended with the Examination of Developing Trends in Human Rights
- Unique Chance to Directly Learn from Leaders and Experienced Practitioners in the Field
- Opportunity to Discover How Human Rights Intersects with Other Careers
- Sessions designed to offer a Gateway to Becoming an Effective Leader & Advocate for Human Rights
- Opportunity to Network with Peers & Fellow Advocates from Across the Globe
Taking place May 28 through 31, the 2024 Global Institute for Human Rights Certificate Program will be a four-day, live, virtual (online) experience that aims to provide a firm understanding of a range of issues, including, but not limited to: LGBTQ+ rights; refugee and migrant rights; women, peace, and security; environmental and climate justice; artificial intelligence for good; and access to justice and technology.
All participants who complete the program will receive a Certificate of Completion from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
Turning Point Summit 2024
The World House Global Network – Youth Working Group & The Dais
Turning Point Summit is a global platform where people can engage in dialogue, establish a shared vision, and work towards realizing it. The summit’s goal is to organize a global network of people who will commit to a year of social action on the critical conflict issues impacting their lives and the lives of their communities. Its objectives are to identify challenges and opportunities, stake positions on them, and formulate strategic solutions. To realize these, the summit will offer participants inspiring keynote speakers, real-time interactive engagement, and free training on nonviolent social action on the political culture, social institutions, and civic participation necessary to foster the justice, peace, and prosperity its theme fosters: Where do we go from here? A revolution of values.
Event dates: March 21-24, 2024
>> Learn more at https://www.turningpointsummit.org
>> Details about the Summit – https://bit.ly/TPS2024Resources
>> Turning Point Summit Community Whatsapp Group for Information – https://bit.ly/TPSWhatsapp
>> Application Form Link: https://bit.ly/TPSApply
Episodes 21 & 22 with Dr. Monisha Bajaj are available on Human Rights Education NOW!
We are pleased to announce the availability of our latest installment of podcast episodes in Human Rights Education NOW! Episodes 20 & 21 feature conversations with Dr. Monisha Bajaj. Dr. Monisha Bajaj is a Professor of International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco. She is the editor and author of eight books and numerous articles on issues of peace, human rights, migration, and education, including Humanizing Education for Immigrant and Refugee Youth and World Yearbook of Education 2023: Racialization and Educational Inequality in Global Perspective. Dr. Bajaj has developed curriculum and teacher training materials—particularly related to human rights, racial justice, ethnic studies, and sustainability—for non-profit and national advocacy organizations as well as inter-governmental organizations, such as UNICEF and UNESCO. In 2015, she received the Ella Baker/Septima Clark Human Rights Award (2015) from Division B of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
Episode 21: Dr. Monisha Bajaj, Part One
In Episode 21, Dr. Monisha Bajaj shares her interest in human rights and human rights education, as well as her work at Human Rights Watch. Dr. Bajaj then discusses the work of Paolo Freire and Richard Pierre Claude. Next, she describes her work with Betty Reardon, and the evolution of the field of human rights education (HRE). Dr. Bajaj expounds upon the significance of social media and internet technologies in spreading HRE along with contemporary HRE challenges, including rising fascism. Later, Dr. Bajaj raises questions about the relevance of human rights and her thoughts on the impact of decolonization scholarship. She also explains the linkages between HRE and peace education; the importance of her work with immigrant and refugee communities; and the heightened presence of human rights across university programs. Lastly, Dr. Bajaj shares her thoughts on the reconceptualization of public discourse on human rights, and how the U.S. remains far behind in integrating HRE in mass public education.
Topics discussed:
- Work at Human Rights Watch
- Paolo Freire and Richard Peirre Claude
- Dr. Betty Reardon
- Evolution of the field of human rights education
- Impact of social media and internet technologies in spreading HRE
- Relevance of human rights
- Impact of decolonization scholarship
- Linkages between HRE and peace education
- Work with immigrant and refugee communities
- Reconceptualizing public discourse on human rights
Full topic listing available for PDF download HERE.
Listen on our Buzzsprout podcast website HERE.
Episode 22: Dr. Monisha Bajaj, Part Two
In Episode 22, Dr. Monisha Bajaj shares HRE and peace education strategies to apply when working with marginalized groups, as well as her partner project with immigrant students in Oakland, California, and the book that emerged from the partner project. Next, Dr. Bajaj discusses how the HRE framework helps students from all backgrounds by broadening their perspective. Dr. Bajaj then explains the connections between HRE and social justice, and her thoughts on using HRE to focus on social and economic rights and address endemic problems. Dr. Bajaj also shares the importance of having leaders who are human rights-informed and her concerns for a growing authoritarianism in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Bajaj then emphasizes the value of a national HRE conference, and John Terry and the New Jersey HRE conference on human rights and climate change. Lastly, she describes her most significant role models in HRE; a quote that summarizes her views on HRE; and one critical change she thinks would advance HRE in the U.S.
Topics discussed:
- HRE strategies when working with marginalized groups
- Partner project with immigrant students in Oakland, California.
- HRE framework supporting students from diverse backgrounds
- Connection between HRE and social justice
- HRE as a framework for working on social and economic rights
- Importance of having leaders who are human-rights informed
- Growing trend toward authoritarianism
- HRE National conference
- John Terry and the New Jersey HRE Conference
- Significant role model and inspiring quote
- Critical change that would advance HRE in the U.S.
Full topic listing available for PDF download HERE.
Listen on our Buzzsprout podcast website HERE.
Every Man, Woman, and Child & Every Living Soul The Original Musical Presentation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Composer and musician (Merrill Collins (We Declare!) teams up with Kristen Caven (The Winning Family) to present her original song that first brought the UDHR to the grassroots level.
Often performed for international peace organizations, Every Man, Woman, and Child makes engagement with this global document a musical pleasure for any community. Instructions, lyrics, scores and educational materials for presenting the thirty documents of the UDHR in a musical setting are included with a new, non-binary version of the song, Every Living Soul.
Adaptable for all ages, this project is perfect for musicians and non-musicians, religious leaders, yoga and dance teachers. Get songs wherever music is streamed, full scores are available on the publisher’s website.
>> Learn more
>> January 15, 2024 Workshop
Human Rights Day Virtual Screening
Human Rights 75 – Youth Dialogue | UN Web TV
Human Rights 75 Youth Dialogue: Amplifying the HR75 initiative among young people
The Youth Dialogue organized on the margins of the Human Rights 75 High-level event is aimed to ensure that young people play an active role in the HR75 initiative and in shaping human rights commitments for the future.
The event will allow young people to express their concerns and expectations about the future of human rights and share their vision of what States, the UN and young people should do to strengthen human rights in the coming years.
The Youth Dialogue will involve the discussion of the Human Rights 75 Youth Declaration, the presentation of the Youth Rights Advocacy Toolkit, and the launch of the OHCHR documentary “Changemakers: Stories of young human rights educators”.
Sharing Wordless Picture Books across Cultures and Languages
Monday, December 11, 2023
11am Central (via Zoom) – REGISTER HERE
In response to the waves of refugees from Africa and the Middle East arriving to the Italian island,Lampedusa, the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), led by Deborah Soria, launched the project “Silent Books, from the world to Lampedusa and back” in 2012. The project involved creating the first library on Lampedusa to be used by local and immigrant children and annual Silent Book lists and exhibits that travel the globe.
with Deborah Soria
Biblioteca IBBY lampedusa
Sponsored by the International Children’s and Young Adult Literature Collection, UWM Libraries, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with support from the Center for International Education and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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