Category: News and Updates

All schools must be a place where students can feel safe and have their identities affirmed in order to thrive. Our students need to know we see them, we hear them, and we support them. This fall, the start of the new school year provides us the opportunity to declare our commitment to students, welcoming them back to the classroom with courage and joy, free from bias, and discrimination.

Inspired by Idaho Educator Sarah Inama’s bravery to keep her “Everyone Is Welcome Here” poster hanging in her classroom, our Everyone is Welcome Here art, sponsored by Advocates for Youth, National Education Association, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and Subject To Climate, visibly affirm the commitment of school staff to each students’ right to learn and thrive in a safe and welcoming school – no matter what they look like, where they are from or who they love.

NEA also funds and organizes trainings for NEA members. Request your Racial and Social Training here

>> Get your stickers and posters and show your students Everyone is Welcome Here! 

To support our network of human rights educators, HRE USA provides lesson plans and resources teaching about human rights, through human rights and for human rights.

📚 These lessons and resources are available for free in our Human Rights Education Library and HRE Collections.

💬 HRE USA members also have access to the HRE USA Discussion Forum to share resources, events, and converse with fellow HRE practitioners.

🖇️ If you have time and interest, please consider joining one of  HRE USA’s Action Teams: HRE USA Action Teams and Working Group. We ask interested members to please complete the following HRE USA Leadership Survey 2025. Our Team Chairs will be in touch with you soon.

🛍️ Shop for UN declaration and convention booklets, posters, teaching materials, HRE USA publications, and the Human Rights Game at our shop.

Have HRE news, resources, or events to share?

For Blog posts, which feed the HRE USA Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, please email kristi@hreusa.org with “BLOG” in the subject line. **Please make sure that you include an image as well as the short writeup. If there is a link for further information, you can include this link. Blog examples: News and Updates (hreusa.org)

For Newsletter items, please send agenda items and story information to info@hreusa.org with “NEWSLETTER” in the subject line. **Please send an image and your story write-up with a link by the 15th of each month to be included in the next newsletter. Newsletter examples.

If you would like HRE USA to co-sponsor an upcoming human rights event by sharing with our network, please submit this form.

This year’s toolkit is packed with ready-to-use, SDG skills resources to help you:

• Bring the Global Goals into your teaching in new ways 
• Explore timely topics like global trade, supply chains and peace-building
• Foster peace, empathy, and hope in the classroom

“Systems Bingo!” explores how global trade connects us all – and why it’s crucial to make these systems fair and sustainable for both people and planet. Fast-paced discussion, plus a bit of healthy competition! 

“Be Hope” invites students to imagine a brighter future and share their visions with the world on the Map of Hope, to be hope for others.  

“SDG 16 in Action” demonstrates how peace-building can begin in the classroom, through empathy, fairness and creative collaboration.

>> Access resource

Asha Rangappa is a Yale professor and former FBI agent who appears frequently on national media as a legal and security analyst.

Prior to her current position as Senior Lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs, Rangappa was Associate Dean at Yale Law School and served as a Special Agent in the New York Division of the FBI, specializing in counterintelligence investigations. Rangappa has been a legal and national security analyst for CNN and ABC News, and has also appeared frequently on MSNBC and BBC. She is an editor for Just Security, a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, and a Security Fellow with the Truman National Security Project. At Yale, Rangappa teaches courses on national security law, Russian information warfare, and leadership and ethics. She is the author of The Freedom Academy, a bestselling online Substack publication about disinformation and its impact on democracy, and she also co-hosts the legal podcast, It’s Complicated, with Renato Mariotti.

Noting that “Rangappa’s humor and intellect have won her a formidable following,” a recent magazine profile stated, “If you could invent a political commentator with bipartisan credibility, she might look like Asha Rangappa. . . . Rangappa knows from experience how the FBI handles Russian spies and disinformation; add to the mix her professorial skill at explaining complex ideas, and she is ideally positioned to break down the bewildering political events of recent years.”

Sep 18, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM (CT), The Mauthe Center, 2418 Leon Bond Dr, Green Bay, WI 54311 and Webinar 


This event is free and open to the public. Registration here will reserve your seat until 6:45pm.

>> Learn more and register 
>> The event will also be simulcast as a webinar. To attend virtually, follow this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IGUM7OChR1Gb7aRW435QMA

HRE USA is a coalition of hundreds of members across the country, and we continue to grow daily. We are academics, activists, parents, educators, students, unions, policy makers, social scientists, software engineers, professors, artists, and non-profit organizations united with a common mission: promoting human dignity, justice, and peace by cultivating an expansive, vibrant base of support for human rights education (HRE) within the United States.

There are two ways to join the HRE USA community: as an individual or as an organization.

>> Learn more and become a member today! 

Assemblies—gatherings where large numbers of people come together to deliberate and make collective decisions—are a powerful tool for democratic governance and movement-building. As the U.S. and countries around the world struggle to meet people’s material needs, reduce extreme concentrations of wealth and defeat right-wing racist and xenophobic authoritarian threats, assemblies and other models of collaborative governance hold potential to help reverse the tide. In this webinar, we’ll talk with Ben Palmquist, author of a new report on assemblies, about how different forms of assemblies including people’s movement assemblies and civic assemblies are reshaping governance across the U.S. and around the world. And we’ll hear from Just Futures in Washington State and the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition about how they’re using assemblies and building community-government collaboration to support community-led visioning and power-building for equity and justice for all.

Featured speakers:

• Kesi Foster, Co-Executive Director, Partners for Dignity & Rights (moderator)
• Evan Casper–Futterman, Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition
• Katherine Mella, Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition
• Esther Min, Front and Centered
• Lindsay Morgan Tracy, Washington Economic Justice Alliance, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
• Ben Palmquist, Partners for Dignity & Rights, New Social Contract

Tuesday, September 9, 2025, 9am PT / 12pm ET / 6pm CET, virtual (available in English with Spanish interpretation)

>> Register