Nominate yourself or someone else for the HRE USA Steering Committee! This year we have 2 open seats.
Elected Steering Committee members will serve a three-year term beginning in August 2025.
Submit nominations by: Monday, July 28, 2025
>> HRE USA Steering Committee Nomination Form
>> About the HRE USA Steering Committee
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OPEN CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Join the official Preselection Committee for the 14th Annual SIMA Awards, celebrating the finest in documentary and XR impact storytelling from 140 countries. Our committee brings together filmmakers, editors, producers, curators, journalists, human rights advocates, social justice innovators, and postsecondary students.
As a committee member, you’ll have the exclusive opportunity to screen up to 100 documentary films (features and shorts) submitted to SIMA, using our evaluation tools and metrics to assess each project. This entirely virtual experience runs from September to December, allowing you to participate at your own pace.
By joining, you’ll gain unparalleled insight into groundbreaking independent filmmaking, earning a certificate of completion for your CV, and deepening your perspective on the world through these compelling stories. We’re looking for candidates with a strong passion for human rights, social justice, and social innovation who are studying or working in media, communications, journalism, international development, or human rights.
On Monday, August 25, best-selling author Clint Smith will discuss his soon-to-be-released young readers edition of How the Word Is Passed: Remembering Slavery and How It Shaped America, adapted by Sonja Cherry-Paul. Smith will be in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian and educator and Prentiss Charney Fellow Jessica A. Rucker.
Recognized in international human rights law, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the right to peaceful assembly and the freedom of expression together empower both individuals and communities to advocate for justice and systemic change.
HREA offers more than 40 resources on freedom of assembly and associationand 80 resources on freedom of opinion and expression, all of which can be used to support educators, activists, and policymakers. These include lesson plans, toolkits, fictional stories, and other materials designed to promote civic participation and human rights education.
In preparation for educational activities supporting human rights throughout the year, you are welcome to explore HREA’s Online Resource Center.
The Summer Institute is the place to fill your mind and your virtual bookshelf with curriculum-boosting teaching practices and instructional resources.
You’ll join Climate Generation, the North American Association for Environmental Education, and 20 regional climate change education leaders with educators from across North America dedicated to teaching climate change as an interdisciplinary issue. More than 30 presenters from across the country will facilitate interactive, hands-on workshops designed to engage and inspire you. At this three-day institute, you will investigate climate change education best practices, interact with climate change curriculum, and gain skills to teach climate change while inspiring hope and efficacy.
July 14 and 15, 2025, plus one regional cohort day on July 16 or 17
Registration $250 | Scholarships Available | Graduate Credit Available | 20 Hours of Continuing Education
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Equality Now is an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting and protecting the rights of women and girls around the world since 1992. One its four main programme areas is on ending harmful practices (EHP), where work in recent years has largely focused on issues relating to child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) and female genital mutilation (FGM). Equality Now also serves as the Secretariat to the Global Campaign for Equality in Family Law.
Equality Now is looking to hire a short-term research consultant to support the research and drafting of a report on the Intersections between Child Marriage and Family Laws in South Asia.
From the sea-nomad shores of the Philippines to the night clubs of Istanbul, the campaign trail of New York City to the creative streets of Johannesburg and more, these 13 powerful stories uplift LGBTQIA+ voices reclaiming space, rewriting narratives, and reshaping communities.
To commemorate Juneteenth and Pride Month, we uplift liberation and Black joy and culture, and share new resources for the ongoing justice and equity movement. Newsletter
Learning for Justice is relaunching the Teaching Hard History podcast series with host Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D., to resist current efforts to erase and alter our nation’s history. As we celebrate Juneteenth, let’s commit to learning and teaching the hard history that is foundational to the United States.
Teaching Hard History begins with the long and brutal legacy of slavery and reaches through the victories of and violent responses to the Civil Rights Movement and Black Americans’ experiences during the Jim Crow era to the issues we face today. This is American history that we all need to know and that should be taught in schools and in communities.
Join us each week as we highlight an episode from the series and include a new resource page with essential ideas and teaching recommendations from the conversation and updated resources.
Featured Episode from Season 1: American Slavery
What really caused the Civil War? In this episode, Salem State University professor Bethany Jay examines the complex role that slavery played in causing the Civil War and outlines ways to teach this history and clarify our understanding of the Confederacy. Listen to the episode and find resources here.
Public schools play a crucial role in our democracy, providing the literacy, critical thinking skills and common-good values essential for participation in the democratic process. Understanding current issues in education justice — including the possibilities of and threats to public schools — can help us envision affirmative models that benefit all and counter efforts to undermine public education. Learn more with this new series, and join us in demanding education justice and inclusive public schools that foster excellence and equity.
We begin the series with these new articles by T. Jameson Brewer, Ph.D., on public schools as a common good, which explore the possibilities and threats to public education in the United States.
LGBTQ+ people have always existed, but LGBTQ+ history, which is an integral part of the history of the United States, has often been ignored or erased. From Learning for Justice and hosts Leila Rupp and John D’Emilio, Queer America reveals stories of LGBTQ+ life we should have learned in school. This 13-episodes podcast series can help us learn about and teach LGBTQ+ history. Celebrate Pride Month and share this series.
Applications are now open for the Master of Arts in International Law and Diplomacy, a graduate programme jointly delivered by the University for Peace (UPEACE) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). Delivered in an online format, the programme explores the intersection between international law and diplomacy.
Participants study topics such as Public International Law, International Human Rights Law, Law of Treaties, Law of Armed Conflict, and International Environmental Law, and take part in a Workshop on Negotiation and Mediation Skills.
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