National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) invites you to its Summer Leadership Institute (SLI), Navigating the Political Landscape of Social Studies!
Currently, social studies, social studies educators, and education as a whole are in a defensive stance as we have become pawns in a misinformation campaign about our content, our methods, and our mission. This year’s two-day SLI event will focus on how we as social studies educators can recapture the narrative of social studies and promote social studies as a central component of preparing all students for civic life.
During this two-day virtual event, NCSS members will learn about the current legal and political challenges confronting teaching social studies and work collaboratively on approaches, tools, and structures that we can put in place at the classroom, local, state, and national levels to navigate the current political landscape.
2023 marks an important year for us at the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights, as well as for all humankind. Seventy five years ago, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights came into force as an international framework for human rights at the United Nations’ following the atrocities of the second world war. Our namesake, John Peters Humphrey, worked with representatives from around the world to draft and bring forward this important document and work to enshrine human rights into international law.
Coming into the 75th Anniversary, we see there are many struggles that continue to confront our local and global communities. While we have international human rights laws and foundations to guide us, we have a long way to go to actualize these rights and bring peace to our communities and world. The rates of hate and intolerance are growing, poverty is deepening, and Canadians are only now beginning to reckon with our deep history of genocide.
Please join us on July 21st at 9 am MST as we share with you our vision for commemorating and creating action for the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We will share a draft plan and framework with you for an international conference in 2023 where we hope to provide space for reflection on the state of human rights, provide opportunities for growth and mentorship, and facilitate a strengthened network of an intergenerational community committed to building stronger, more resilient and inclusive communities. Our hopes that this launch will provide a framework for collaboration on this important event.
We thank you for considering our invitation and would be honored to have you with us. Together, we can create a vision and plan forward for a continued, and strengthened, effort to advance a culture of peace and human rights.
Just Fair will host a free interactive online workshop for organisations and activists to explore social justice as a human rights issue and how a human rights – specifically economic, social and cultural rights – based approach can be a powerful tool in your campaigning.
The workshop will:
Explore social justice as a human rights issue, with a particular focus on economic, social, and cultural rights
Examine international examples of human rights-based campaigning on social justice issues
Introduce the five key principles of a human rights-based approach (Participation, Accountability, Non-discrimination, Empowerment and Legality)
Identify ways to apply these principles to your work.
We like to use Zoom as it has some great accessibility features. So that we can make the training as accessible as possible for you, please let us know as soon as possible if you have any other communication or access needs. Please email helen.flynn@justfair.org.uk to discuss.
Note: if you would like a bespoke workshop tailored to your organisation’s needs, please contact helen.flynn@justfair.org.uk to discuss options (there will be a charge for bespoke sessions).
Find out why we need to understand the history of learning disability to ensure better support for people with learning disabilities today
About this event
In many ways the past few decades have been a revolutionary period for people with learning disabilities across the world, culminating in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). However, successful implementation of the CRPD has been a complex business for people with learning disabilities, constrained by the legacy of historic legislation, structures, systems and attitudes.
In this talk, we take the long view on the question of rights for people with learning disabilities, tracing back to the UK’s Mental Deficiency Act of 1913 and the emergence of eugenics, which marked the beginning of the incarceration of people with learning disabilities on a widespread scale. Despite some progress over time, we ask why upholding the rights of people with learning disabilities continues to be so difficult to achieve.
This event is open to all. Please book a ticket to attend and the Zoom link will be emailed to you in advance of the event.
A collection of people’s history stories from July 4th beyond 1776. The stories include July 4th anniversaries such as when slavery was abolished in New York (1827), Frederick Douglass’s speech “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” (1852), the Reconstruction era attack on a Black militia that led to the Hamburg Massacre (1876), protest of segregation at an amusement park in Baltimore (1963), and more.
To coincide with the ACT government’s community consultation on the right to a healthy environment, the Panel discussion will examine the intersection of the environment and human rights and discuss why this should be recognised in the ACT Human Rights ACT 2004.
Public consultation to inform consideration of the introduction of a right to a healthy environment in the Human Rights Act 2004.
The Right to a Healthy Environment Panel Discussion coincides with the ACT Government public consultation on including the right to a healthy environment in the ACT Human Rights Act.
The Panel will be discussing the intersection of human rights and the environment what it means to recognise a right to a healthy environment in the ACT.
Hosted by ABC TV/radio host Dan Bourchier, the panel will be an opportunity to hear from a range of experts discussing the intersection of human rights and the environment what it means to recognise a right to a healthy environment in the ACT Human Rights Act.
Panel speakers include – Dr Helen Watchirs, OAM, President, ACT Human Rights Commission; Dr Caroline Hughes, Executive Director Collections AIATSIS; Melanie Montalban, Managing Lawyer, ACT Environmental Defenders Office; Roxanne Jones, Researcher Mayi Kuwayu National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing – ANU [TBC Dr Raymond Lovett Director MK Study, ANU]; Dr Brian Weir, ACT Business Chamber; Adina Cirson, ACT Executive Director, Property Council of Australia
Questions the panel members will explore include the following:
How should we define the right to a healthy environment?
What duties should be included for government and private entities to ensure respect for individuals’ right to a healthy environment?
What additional measures should be considered to ensure protection of the right to a healthy environment for vulnerable groups?
How could the right to a healthy environment recognise the importance of ‘country’ for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?
How should government go about fulfilling the right to a healthy environment?
The session will run for 90 minutes, and will be recorded for later viewing.
Donations are crucial and help us continue to learn, organize, collaborate, and advocate for human rights education in the United States. Join us on June 21st to raise funds for our Kirby Edmonds Summer Fellowship and support our work. Kirby Edmonds was an impactful member of the Ithaca and human rights communities and this fellowship develops human rights education leaders through hands-on experience and mentorship. Donations of all sizes are greatly appreciated!
Join SURJ Marin facilitators to discuss the book, We Are Not Like Them, by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
About this event
Join SURJ Marin facilitators for our virtual monthly book discussion on Sunday, June 26th at 4:30-6:00pm PT.
Told from alternating perspectives, this is an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event—a powerful and poignant exploration of race in America today and its devastating impact on ordinary lives. Like Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage and Jodi Picoult’s Small Great Things, We Are Not Like Them explores complex questions of race and how they pervade and shape our most intimate spaces in a deeply divided world. But at its heart, it’s a story of enduring friendship—a love that defies the odds even as it faces its most difficult challenges.
SURJ Marin – Showing Up for Racial Justice
SURJ Marin engages white people to dismantle systems of white supremacy and join the ongoing multiracial movement for racial justice. Our work is informed by relationships of accountability with local Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) organizations and community leaders. www.surjmarin.org.
Juneteenth — June 19th, also known as Emancipation Day — Juneteenth — is one of the commemorations of people seizing their freedom in the United States.
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