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Webinar – Pedagogy & Projects: Teaching about and for Children’s Rights

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Friday, March 5, 2021
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm EST
Where: Zoom
Cost: FREE

Description:
Dr. Yvonne Vissing will share her experiences of networking and research with scholars running child rights programs in the UK, Ireland, and Cyprus. The US is now the only UN state party not to have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. What can we learn from our global child rights colleagues to integrate into our teaching about and for children’s rights in the United States? 

Yvonne Vissing PhD is a sociologist and Professor of Healthcare Studies and Founding Director of the Center for Childhood & Youth Studies at Salem State University.  Author of over a dozen books and hundreds of publications and presentations, she is an international expert in children’s human rights.  She is the US child rights policy chair for Hope for Children’s UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Policy Center, an international think-tank of child rights scholars located in Cyprus.  A former National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, she is on a variety of boards and committees, such as the Human Rights Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, American Sociological Association and HREUSA.  

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

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Teach the Black Freedom Struggle

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When: Mondays January – May, 2021
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST  
Where: Live Stream
Cost: FREE

Description:
This series entitled, “Teach the Black Freedom Struggle” is hosted by the Zinn Education project and features leading historians from across the country. 

The classes are held at least once a month on Mondays at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm ET for 75 minutes. In each session, the historian is interviewed by a teacher and breakout rooms allow participants (in small groups) to meet each other, discuss the content, and share teaching ideas.

Upcoming Sessions:

  • March 8, 2021: A Black Women’s History of the United States. 
  • March 22, 2021: The Atlanta Washerwomen’s Strike. 
  • April 26, 2021: The Carceral State
  • May 10, 2021: How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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Free ACLU Webinar for Youth on Civil Liberties

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When: Saturday, February 27, 2021
Time: 11:00 am-12:00 pm CST
Where: Zoom
Cost: FREE

Description: 
This Saturday, February 27, Nicole Rainey of the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri will ZOOM with Civitas students to talk about Civil Liberties Issues. The federal government’s view of inalienable rights has changed considerably as we have moved from the Trump Administration to the era of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

The ACLU was established in the 19-teens to protect liberties that were threatened by the government overstepping its reach. Many of the causes that it supports are not popular (e.g. advocating for Nazi protestors to have the right to march through a Jewish neighborhood), but they consistently work to protect individual liberties. This is true regarding student rights in school. Nicole will be joined by at least one other attorney from the ACLU-MO.

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Dawnland Online Film Screening + Live Q&A

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When: Thursday, February 25, 2021
Time: 6 pm – 8:30 pm CST
Where: Online
Cost: FREE

Description: 
This is a special opportunity to see the 86-minute directors’ cut of Dawnland followed by a live Q and A. For decades, child welfare authorities have been removing Native American children from their homes to save them from being Indian. In Maine, the first official “truth and reconciliation commission” in the United States begins a historic investigation. National News & Documentary Emmy® award-winning film Dawnland goes behind-the-scenes as this historic body grapples with difficult truths, redefines reconciliation, and charts a new course for state and tribal relations.

Join chair of the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission David Faunkle, educator and linguist Roger Paul (Passamaquoddy), filmmaker and Upstander Project director Adam Mazo, and Upstander Project learning director Mishy Lesser for a live Q&A moderated by Dodd Human Rights Impact director Glenn Mitoma after the film. The discussion will center on the burgeoning conversations and moves to create truth and healing commissions in the land now known as the United States. 

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Renewing A Human Rights Agenda Series

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Mark your calendars! UICHR announces its spring webinar series: Renewing a Human Rights Agenda. All sessions are held on Wednesdays from 12:00 – 1:00 pm CST

Upcoming Webinars:

  • February 24, 12:00 PM: Renewing a Human Rights Agenda: U.S. Foreign Policy
  • March 10, 12:00 PM: Renewing a Human Rights Agenda: Defending Democracy in the U.S.
  • March 24, 12:00 PM: Renewing a Human Rights Agenda: The Criminal Legal System
  • April 7, 12:00 PM: Renewing a Human Rights Agenda: The Climate Crisis
  • April 28, 12:00 PM: Renewing a Human Rights Agenda: Native American Rights

A few days after each event, the webinar recording will be posted to the UICHR Youtube channel

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RFK HUMAN RIGHTS FEBRUARY WEBINARS

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Join Robert F Kennedy Human Rights for their upcoming virtual events with key experts discussing how to achieve human rights goals through international cooperation and collective action. 

February 18, 2021, at 3 p.m. EST: UN Sustainable Development Goals Series
We’re kicking off our webinar series about the UN Sustainable Development Goals, produced by our very own Youth Advisory Board. Our first guest will be Dr. Glenn Mitoma, assistant professor of human rights and education at the University of Connecticut’s Human Rights Institute and the inaugural Director of Dodd Impact, who’ll guide a discussion about how international human rights objectives are established and how accountability among individual nations is maintained. 

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February 25, 2021, at 10 a.m. EST: Nizami Ganjavi Speaker Series
Join us for the second installment of our speaker series in partnership with the Nizami Ganjavi International Center. We’ll feature Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, an environmental scientist who was the first female president of Mauritius, and hear her firsthand account of advocating for human rights, justice, and international diplomacy.

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February 25, 2021, at 5 p.m. EST: UN Sustainable Development Goals Series
During this second installment of our UN Sustainable Development Goals webinar series, we’ll hear from activist Cara Kennedy-Cuomo, who has joined RFK Human Rights to work on several key initiatives, including fighting on behalf of farmworkers and protesting the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in Bangladesh and Myanmar. 

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Painting a Just Picture: Art and Activism

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Time: 3:30 – 4:30 pm CT
Where: Live Stream on Zoom
Cost:  FREE

This webinar, from Learning for Justice and co-hosted by experts from the National Gallery of Art, will offer new understandings of American visual art and its role in helping us understand our history. You’ll also learn how art has been integral to activism and fights for justice. The webinar will cover how to integrate the visual arts into content areas such as ELA and social studies, including an overview of strategies for cross-curricular collaboration. Finally, using works from the National Gallery of Art and K-12 students, you will receive an overview of project and lesson ideas and discuss strategies for engaging in arts instruction. This webinar will help educators across all content areas create a more diverse and powerful curriculum.

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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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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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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

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.