Category: News and Updates

Art and Resistance Through Education’s Junior Board recently launched the Artivism Art Contest, a national art contest open to youth ages 13-18. Submissions close on July 2, and we’d love for you to share the attached flyer and following blurb with your program participants/youth in your community! 

Art is a universal language for us to share our voices, tell our stories, and act as a medium for change. Here at ARTE, we aim to emphasize the power of art and invite you to do the same.

The ARTivism (Art + Activism) Art Contest asks young artists, ages 13-18, to submit visual art pieces that comment on a personal experience or issue related to a broader theme in our society.

The results of the ARTivism Art Contest will be decided by a team of judges from ARTE, and submissions close on Saturday, July 2 at 11:59 pm ET.

The contest will have a first, second, and third place winner, and the website page further details the prizes: https://www.artejustice.org/artcontest. Youth can also submit their work using the “submit” button on the website. Please address any inquiries to info@artejustice.org.

The Editors of Human Rights Education Review are pleased to announce that Vol. 5 No. 2 (2022) is now published and available online at https://humanrer.org/index.php/human/issue/view/471

Register here 

Wed, 29 June 2022

10:30 – 11:30 CDT

Developing political compassion through narrative imagination in human rights education Iida PYY, University of Helsinki, Finland

In this presentation, Iida Pyy explores the work of Martha Nussbaum, arguing that political compassion is a necessary disposition for engaging with human rights principles and combatting social injustices such as racial discrimination. Drawing from Nussbaum’s theory of political emotions, she explores the need to understand compassion as connected to cognition and practical reasoning. Iida Pyy offers suggestions of how to educate towards political compassion in human rights education (HRE) through Nussbaum’s notion of narrative imagination. In order to address ways in which human rights education may be partial and counteract this tendency with alternative perspectives, the presenter draws on the work of critical HRE scholars and emphasises the importance of counter-narratives and reflective interpretation of narratives. She suggests that Nussbaum’s work on compassion and narrative imagination, informed by such critical considerations, opens up opportunities to look afresh at HRE theory and practice and inform thinking about rights, emotions and social justice.

July 18th and 19th, 2022

Plus a regional cohort day on July 21, 22, or 22.

Register now for a three-day virtual conference on climate change education built by educators and climate change professionals from across North America! Gain the skills, tools, and resources to teach climate change in all subject areas. For more information and agenda, visit this page.

Mon, June 13, 2022

13:00 – 14:30 BST (7:00am- 8:30am CST)

REGISTER HERE!

Hugo Rojas and Miriam Shaftoe talk about their new book Human Rights and Transitional Justice in Chile.

Note: This event will run in a hybrid format. If you would like to attend in person, join us at the Law Board Room at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (St Cross Building, St Cross Road, OX1 3UL, Oxford). If you would like to attend online, please register here.

Human Rights and Transitional Justice in Chile offers a synthesis of the main achievements and remaining challenges during the thirty years of transitional justice in Chile following the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The Chilean experience provides useful comparative perspectives for researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, and human rights activists involved in transitional justice processes around the world. The first chapter explains the theoretical foundations of human rights and transitional justice. The second chapter analyses the main historical milestones in Chile’s recent history that have defined the course of the transitional justice process. The following chapters provide an overview of the key elements of transitional justice in Chile: truth, reparation, memory, justice and guarantees of non-repetition.

Authors

Hugo Rojas is Lecturer in Sociology of Law and Human Rights at Alberto Hurtado University and Researcher at the Millennium Institute on Violence and Democracy. He has a DPhil in Sociology from the University of Oxford, and an MSc in Law, Anthropology & Society from LSE. His most recent books include Human Rights and Transitional Justice in Chile (with M. Shaftoe, Palgrave Macmillan 2022), Past Human Rights Violations and the Question of Indifference: The Case of Chile (Palgrave Macmillan 2022), Litigación Penal Estratégica en Juicios Orales (with R. Blanco, L. Moreno & M. Decap, Tirant lo Blanch 2021).

Miriam Shaftoe is Research Assistant at Alberto Hurtado University School of Law and the Millennium Institute on Violence and Democracy. She studied Social Sciences in Conflict Studies and Human Rights at the University of Ottawa and is co-author of Human Rights and Transitional Justice in Chile (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

Discussant

Paula Molina is Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (Oxford), Harvard Nieman Fellow, Chilean radio and TV host, book author, and founder of innovative digital and legacy media projects, including the Chilean podcast platform, CooperativaPodcast. She contributes with the BBC.

Governments of 49 of the world’s most populous countries harmed children’s rights by endorsing online learning products during Covid-19 school closures without adequately protecting children’s privacy, according to the recently released report by Human Rights Watch.

• Press release: https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/05/25/governments-harm-childrens-rights-online-learning
• YouTube video (2:12): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq6VrvpbxPQ
• Full report: https://www.hrw.org/report/2022/05/25/how-dare-they-peep-my-private-life/childrens-rights-violations-governments

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