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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

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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Celebrate Human Rights Day with HRE USA – December 10!

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Thursday, December 10, 2020
Time: 3:30 p.m. Eastern
Where: Live Stream
Cost:  Free

Description:
Join HRE USA, the nation’s network of human rights educators, as we celebrate Human Rights Day and commemorate the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations on Dec 10, 1948.

The event will feature keynote speaker, Loretta Ross, a nationally-recognized women’s rights and human rights leader whose work emphasizes the intersectionality of social justice issues and how this transforms social change.

HRE USA will also honor the 2020 Edward O’Brien Human Rights Education Award winners, Pam Bruns of Human Rights Watch Student Task Force and the ACT Center for Disability Leadership.

We are also excited to include youth voices from around the world speaking on the significance of the UDHR through multimedia and poetry, introduce you to HRE USA’s 2020 Flowers Fund grantees, and announce the new Edmonds Summer Fellowship.

We hope you’re able to join us!

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This event is hosted by Human Rights Educators USA (HRE USA), a project of the Center for Transformative Action, with special thanks to the Puffin Foundation for their continued support. For further questions, please contact us at info@hreusa.org.

Support Human Rights Education #GivingTuesday

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Human rights education is as important now as it has ever been in promoting peace, dignity, freedom, equality and respect for all peoples here at home and around the world. This year, in celebration of #GivingTuesday, please consider supporting Human Rights Educators USA.

Your 100% tax-deductible donation will not only enable us to further develop programming that supports human rights education across the United States but also help us ensure that everyone has the opportunity to gain the knowledge, skills, and values to fully exercise and protect the human rights of themselves and others.

Learn more about the projects, partnerships and advocacy work that HRE USA engages in on behalf of our members and human rights educators in the United States. 

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Ripple of Hope Awards Virtual Gala

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Thursday, December 10, 2020
Where: Live Stream
Cost: $100

Description:
Don’t miss the RFK Human Rights Ripple of Hope Awards to honor this years’ 2020 Ripple of Hope Laureates: Dr. Anthony Fauci (Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), Dolores Huerta (President and Founder, Dolores Huerta Foundation; Co-Founder, United Farm Workers of America), Colin Kaepernick (Human Rights Activist, Co-Founder of Know Your Rights Camp, Super Bowl Quarterback), Dan Schulman (President and Chief Executive Officer, PayPal), and Dan Springer (Chief Executive Officer, DocuSign). 

The Ripple of Hope award celebrates leaders of the international business, entertainment, and activist communities who have demonstrated a commitment to social change and reflect Robert Kennedy’s passion for equality, justice, basic human rights, and his belief that each of us can make a difference. 

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Human Rights High School Essay Contest

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This is the 20th year of the Kemper Human Rights Education Foundation’s human rights essay contests for high school students. Winners are awarded $1000 and runner ups $500. Never since World War II have human rights been so threatened as they are today by the coronavirus pandemic. Never since the end of the war has it been more important to motivate students to write about ways to right rights.

Essays should be between 1000 and 2500 words and will be judged according to how clearly and well they answer the question posed and the extent to which they are supported by research. Click the link below for further information on the essay question, criteria, and eligibility. 

Submission Deadline:  December 10, 2020

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Black Lives Matter at School – Year of Purpose

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Join the Black Lives Matter at School Year of Purpose and Week of Action in the fight for racial justice in education. The Year of Purpose has two major components:

  • Reflect. Educators and parents who have been pressed into educating their kids at home due to COVID-19 — are called on to answer a series of reflection questions that help them better analyze their pedagogy with respect to anti-racist practices.
  • Take Action. Educators, students, parents, and community members are called on to organize for a day of action during every month of the school year that will highlight different aspects of the BLM at School movement

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Pedagogies for Human Rights Education and Intercultural Competence

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Eastern
Where: Live Stream
Cost:  Free

Please join the University of Connecticut’s’ Human Rights Institute for a lunchtime seminar with Sandra Sirota and Manuela Wagner entitled: “Pedagogies for Human Rights Education and Intercultural Competence.”

Sirota and Wagner will share how they planned and implemented a collaborative course on human rights education and intercultural citizenship in which students created educational projects for implementation in formal and non-formal settings. Topics will include main themes, examples of students’ projects, opportunities for collaboration and online course design, and challenges of online course design and implementation.

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This event is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Institute and the University and College Consortium for Human Rights Education. 

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.