Category: News and Updates

Sponsored by Citizens for Global Solutions, Minnesota

Date: Thursday, February 17, 2022
Time: 7 pm-8:15 pm (Central Time – USA)
Where: Zoom (register at link below)
Cost: FREE and open to the public

Watch the film, then join the discussion with the guest speaker, Diana Quintero. YouTube ( or copy and paste it: https://youtu.be/ftFbCwJfs1I)

Register here:  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqcOyprzIsE9YLn46sbTjJdP0GNE7Zn2eM

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Description: ALUNA is made by and with the Kogi people, a genuine lost civilization hidden on an isolated triangular pyramid mountain in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, nearly five miles high, on the Colombian-Caribbean coast. The Kogi have made this amazing documentary to help us understand how to avoid the destruction of the world that they are trying to protect, and of ourselves. Learn more about the movie in its website: https://www.alunathemovie.com/

Guest Speaker: Diana Quintero is a Visiting Human Rights Engaged Scholar at the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs. she has been teaching since 2008 a Human Rights Law Clinic focused on legal defense to vulnerable communities and groups such as armed conflict victims and people living under environmental risks. She participates in different professional nets working on sexual and productive rights of women and in women’s equality as well.

You can find this information, as well as upcoming events, on the CGS-MN website: https://www.globalsolutionsmn.org/upcomingevents

Past events and recordings: https://www.globalsolutionsmn.org/pastevents

The HRE USA Innovations & Partnerships Committee is working on developing language that clarifies the importance of diversity, inclusion and equity (DEI) from an HRE perspective in order to support educators who are dealing with challenges to bringing this orientation to their schools and/or other forums.  

To that end, they are seeking your input to the following questions:

1. What is your experience with being trained or with doing training in DEI?

    a. What has been positive?

    b. What has been negative?

    c. What perceptions do you see relative to DEI?

2. How have you seen DEI related to HRE?

    a. In what ways does HRE inform efforts to further DEI?

3. How would language connecting HRE to DEI be helpful to your efforts?

Please send your responses to Sandy Sohcot by Tuesday, February 15: sandy@theworldasitcouldbe.org

Inspired by the real time conversations our facilitators, friends and communities are having around COVID vaccines, we invite you to dialogue across the divide and find a shared meaning behind vaccines and mandates

February 9th at 12pm PST on Zoom

In dialogues, we go beyond right or wrong. We explore experiences, how you arrive there and how you move forward. Let’s share a conversation!

More about this event: This dialogue offering emerged from a small group dialogue held recently, where we began to understand the spectrum of vaccine willingness. We also filtered the mandates through a human rights lens. For example, how are mandates affecting movement and employment status, and whose rights are affected when we don’t vaccinate ourselves? Explore the fundamentals of dialogue as we take on a difficult subject.

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Dr. Keith David Watenpaugh, Professor and Founding Director of Human Rights Studies at the University of California, Davis, is the recipient of the 2021 O’Brien Award for individual achievement. On January 31, 2022, Nancy Flowers of HRE USA joined Professor Watenpaugh’s class at UC Davis and presented him with the award. Congratulations again, Dr. Watenpaugh!

Visit this page to get up to date on the latest HRE USA news.

Lead Editors: Suzanne Egan, Jeff Plantilla and Felicia Yeban

The recent rise of social movements such as Black Lives Matter, Fridays for Future and #MeToo has been one of the most potent forces of human rights mobilisation to have emerged at the global level in decades. At a time when the international human rights movement has come increasingly under fire for its colonial framing, excessive professionalisation and legalistic strategizing, attention has turned to the contrasting success of these grassroots movements in capturing public attention and empowering victims and communities to initiate social as well as legal change.  Human rights education (HRE) through diverse means – from public education initiatives, storytelling and engagement in formal and non-formal settings – has clearly been a critical factor in the evolution of these movements and in contributing to the success of their respective struggles. The involvement of young people in these movements has been particularly striking. At the same time, human rights mobilisation by NGOs and local voluntary sector groups in many countries (including single issue groups, local community groups, faith-based organisations, and charities) with varying degrees of formalisation and resources, is also evolving. Such groups and organisations regularly engage in both formal and informal HRE initiatives. Their aims include raising awareness of current social problems, community empowerment, to building a culture of human rights. NGOs and grassroots organisations have also played a crucial role over many years in helping to develop the HRE policies and programmes of international organisations such as the UN and the Council of Europe. For more information and to submit visit this page.

Please send an extended abstract of no more than 250 words to Managing Editor Marta Stachurska-Kounta at marta.m.stachurska-kounta@usn.no with the email subject line: HRER Special Edition HRE and Grassroots Activism by 4 February 2022.  Abstracts will be reviewed and the authors informed no later than 25 February 2022 if we would like to invite the full paper for review. All invited manuscripts will be subject to double-blind peer review. Full manuscripts are due by 29 April 2022, and the Special Issue will be published in Vol 6(1) in January 2023.