Category: Events

Tuesday, May 14, 7:00 – 8:30pm CT

Allegations of genocide are being brought against a number of countries at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands. This webinar, with speaker Dr. Ellen J. Kennedy, Executive Director, World Without Genocide, examines the apparent impunity of China, and charges against Israel, Russia, and Myanmar in a precedent set years ago in a case against Serbia.

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Co-sponsors:

• Children of Holocaust Survivors Association in Minnesota
• Citizens for Global Solutions – MN
• Federal Bar Association, Minnesota Chapter
• Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, St. Paul
• Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers
• Mitchell Hamline School of Law
• Minnesota Council of Churches
• Minnesota Nurses Association
• Mount Zion Temple
• Shir Tikvah Congregation
• The United Nations Association of Minnesota

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Register by Tuesday, May 14 at 5:00 pm CT

Admission:

• $10 general public; $5 seniors and students (over age 13, please).
• $25 for 1.5 CLE credits for Minnesota lawyers.
• ‘Clock hours’ for teachers, social workers, and nurses.
• Mitchell Hamline students free – diversity credits are available.
• Qualifies as a University of St. Thomas Law Mentor Externship experience.

Register today to attend our next webinar —Supporting Youth Activism—set for this Tuesday, April 16, at 3:30 p.m. CT! Join Learning for Justice, along with a diverse group of panelists from academia to organizational leaders to current young people who are working to affect change in their communities.

You will learn about youth activism, including both its history and present day realities, as well as how to address pushback. Through real world examples, you will gain tools, resources, and insights for supporting young people as they engage in activism in their communities. You won’t want to miss it! 

Here’s information about the webinar panelists:

• Anoushka Lal is a high school senior from the Chicago Public School System and serves as her school’s Student Government president. Anoushka was previously the Public Health Chair of the Chicago Mayor’s Youth Commission at City Hall, working with two mayoral administrations to address the pressing needs of city youth, including mental health and resource consolidation for over 340,000 public high school students. She currently serves as a Civil Rights Scholar at the Chicago Public School District, countering bias-based harm, and has written socio-political Op-Eds in magazines like Teen Vogue to represent the voices of her generation.
   
• Sara O’Brien is the Director of Curriculum and Pedagogy for the EdEthics initiative, which is housed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics. In this role, she creates pedagogical tools that help educators, school and district leaders, and policy makers think through challenging ethical questions in education. A variety of these tools help educators unpack the challenges of supporting student-led activism in schools and provide resources for those adults looking to serve as allies and promote youth voice in schools.
   
• Tamir Harper co-founded UrbEd Inc., a nonprofit that combines community organizing and policy to uplift students, educate communities, and develop coalitions to give students the education they deserve, at 16 years old. He is currently pursuing a Master’s in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and teaching 8th-grade students English and Social Studies in the School District of Philadelphia. Harper is a graduate of American University and an awardee of the Frederick Douglass Distinguished Scholars Program. 
   
• Justin is an associate professor of digital media in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing department at MIT and the director of the Teaching Systems Lab. He is the author of “Iterate: The Secret to Innovation in Schools” and “Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education”, and he is the host of the TeachLab Podcast. He has helped to develop numerous online courses including Youth In Front: Understanding and Supporting Student-Led Activism.

Thu, 2 May 2024 11:30 – 12:30 GMT-5

This event is happening in person and online. This Eventbrite page is for booking online only.

If you wish to attend in person at Kellogg College please use the link below:

The Inaugural Human Rights Lecture: Human Rights in a Fractured World Tickets, Thu 2 May 2024 at 17:30 | Eventbrite

Join President Professor Jonathan Michie and Fellows online as we welcome Bynum Tudor Fellow Ban Ki-moon to Kellogg to deliver the Inaugural Lecture in a new annual series of Kellogg Lectures on Human Rights . This year’s lecture is titled ‘Human Rights in a Fractured World‘.

Ban Ki-moon’s ten years as Secretary General to the United Nations was marked by many successes. Throughout, he strove to enhance human rights globally. Indeed, Ban Ki-moon’s other successes – such as the Sustainable Development Goals, establishing UN Women, and the Paris agreement to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5 degrees celcius – can all be seen as enhancing human rights broadly defined. The Sustainable Development Goals promote the whole range of economic and social rights. UN Women “is the UN organization delivering programmes, policies and standards that uphold women’s human rights”. And the climate crisis threatens the rights of millions, most immediately those who will be displaced, and those facing famine and disease as a result of climate change. Ban Ki-moon will reflect on the urgent need to defend and promote human rights, and will place this in the broader context of the need to promote women’s rights, pursue the Sustainable Development Goals, and tackle the climate crisis.

Professor Jonathan Michie, President of Kellogg College will chair the event.

You will be sent a link to watch the talk nearer to the event date.

Should you have any further queries, please contact events@kellogg.ox.ac.uk

The world can be a challenging place for children. This conference will celebrate the courageous efforts that are occurring around the world to improve the provisions, protections, and participation of young people. You will be introduced to people whose work gives us hope.  They shine light the way ahead during these times of despair. We hear plenty about despair and not enough about hope and the wonderful things people are doing to make the lives of young people better.

This is a free, open to the public virtual conference. CEUs are available upon request.

This conference is an educational opportunity provided by the SSU Center for Childhood & Youth Studies.

April 5, 2024 – Starts at 8:30 am ET, virtual

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Around the world, young scholars are focusing their work on research that is designed to change the world for the better. The Fellow at Salem State University Center for Childhood and Youth Studies will share their cutting-edge ideas! This conference focuses on diversity and inclusion, particularly in families, schools, education, criminal justice, and in the challenges that refugee children face.

This is a free, open to the public virtual conference. CEUs are available upon request.

This conference is an educational opportunity provided by the SSU Center for Childhood & Youth Studies.

March 29, 2024 – 8:30 am – 4 pm (ET), virtual

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Monday, March 25, 7pm ET

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Summary
The right to vote as established in Article 21 of the UDHR is the bedrock of democracy and essential to the fulfillment of other rights. Yet this fundamental right is under attack. This module is designed to address the problem of voter suppression and voter apathy by engaging participants in ways they can promote voting and voting rights in their own communities and classrooms

Objectives

• Establish the importance of voting and civic engagement to human rights and democracy
• Discuss modern day voter suppression and voter apathy
• Develop ways to promote the vote and combat voter suppression in one’s own community

March 28, 6-8pm

How does viewing abortion through a human rights lens shift our analysis, understanding, and approach to this highly contested issue? What is the relationship between human rights and reproductive justice, and how can these approaches help bridge the diversity of viewpoints about abortion? How might embedding abortion in the human rights framework contribute to the global fight against authoritarianism and in defense of democracy more broadly?

These and other questions will be considered by a panel of national leaders in the reproductive justice, racial justice, and human rights movements at “Abortion as a Human Right: A Dialogue.” This event will take place on Thursday, March 28, 2024, 6-8 p.m. in the Carroll Room, Julia McWilliams Child ’34 Campus Center, Smith College, and will feature:

• Byllye Y. Avery, Founder, Black Women’s Health Imperative
• Amy Hagstrom Miller, Founder, Whole Woman’s Health abortion clinics 
• Regina Davis Moss, Executive Director, In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda
• Rosalind Petchesky ’64, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Hunter College, and Founder, International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group 
• Loretta Ross, Associate Professor of the Study of Women & Gender, Smith College and Co-creator of Reproductive Justice Theory

Marlene Gerber Fried, Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Hampshire College and the Founder of Collective Power for Reproductive Justice, will moderate the panel.

This event is organized by fellows in the 2023-24 Kahn Institute long-term project, (Re)visioning Human Rights, Democracy and the Liberal Arts, which serves as an unbounded space for developing new research, teaching, and practice models at the intersection of liberal arts education, human rights, and the future of democracies.

Sponsored by the Smith College Kahn Institute for Liberal Arts, Smith College Special Collections, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Free and open to the public. All viewpoints are welcome. Light refreshments will be available following the panel.

For disability access information or accommodation requests, please call 413-585-2407. To request a sign language interpreter, email ods@smith.edu at least ten days before the event.

We are excited to invite you to an inspiring and empowering Human Rights Education USA Training As Action Series (TAAS) event focused on promoting gender equality through youth-led initiatives. 

HRE USA TAAS Special Global Screening & Conversation

Saturday, March 16th from 8:00  – 9:30 am PT / 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET

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This HRE USA TAAS Special Global Screening, co-sponsored by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Amnesty International (AI), and Soka Gakkai International (SGI), is centered around the multimedia resource “Changemakers: Stories of Young Human Rights Educators.” Launched in December 2023 by AI, SGI, and the OHCHR, this resource aims to inspire and empower young people to advocate for human rights causes.

Summary and what to expect:

• Screening: Be captivated by the stories of three remarkable young human rights educators whose lives have been transformed by their commitment to human rights education.
• Interactive Discussion: Engage in a thought-provoking dialogue on the role of youth in promoting gender equality through human rights education.
• Q&A Session: Hear directly from three inspiring individuals featured in the multimedia resource
  • Ms. Dejana Stosic from Serbia (gender equality and gender-based violence)
  • Mr. Soufiane Hennani from Morocco (gender diversity and equality)
  • Ms. Aizat Ruslanova from Kyrgyzstan (women’s human rights)

Objectives:

• Present stories of youth empowerment through human rights education, as documented in the multimedia resource.
• Provide a space for dialogue on human rights education for, with and by youth as a tool to promote human rights, including gender equality.
• Discuss ideas on how to utilize the multimedia resource as well as other innovative formats to strengthen human rights education for youth in formal and non-formal contexts.

The event is designed for young individuals and anyone in the general public passionate about advancing human rights and gender equality. Let’s unite to empower youth as effective advocates for gender equality and human rights.

We look forward to your participation!

The HRE USA TAAS Team

Kara Anderson, HRE USA Edmonds Fellow (‘23), Albion College Student

Justine Ho, HRE USA Intern, Rutgers University Student

Meredith Hood, HRE USA Edmonds Fellow (‘23)

Annika Malholtra, HRE USA Intern, Rutgers University Student

Hallie McRae, HRE USA Steering Committee, University of California, Berkeley Student

Kristi Rudelius-Palmer, HRE USA Steering Committee

Elizabeth Schwab, HRE USA Steering Committee & Boston College Student

Jess Terbrueggen, HREUSA Steering Committee

Maddy Wegner, HRE USA Steering Committee

Adrianna Zhang, HRE USA Steering Committee, Stanford University Student

Monday, February 26, 2024 – 7-9 pm ET

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Human Rights Educators USA’s annual Training as Action Series (TAAS) is a virtual training series focused on bridging personal and collective action on some of the most critical human rights issues of today. TAAS creates an educational space to connect and collaborate with others in human rights education and training. It also gives participants the skills and information needed to take action on rights issues in their communities. The 2023-2024 training series will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and center on the theme, “Protecting Democracy, Promoting Human Rights.” Sessions will discuss topics such as voting rights, facilitating difficult conversations, organizing an advocacy campaign, communicating with decision makers, protesting, and mental wellness.

Summary
Human rights work often takes an emotional toll on its practitioners, but there are ways to mitigate this toll and find joy and solidarity in the work. This final module aims to explore how to integrate wellness strategies into the various actions discussed throughout the training series, and to establish the importance of self-care in order to care for others.

Objectives

• Understand the importance of maintaining mental wellness during human rights work
• Discuss ways to find joy and solidarity
• Explore how to integrate mental wellness strategies when organizing advocacy campaigns, protests/demonstrations, and other human rights initiatives