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Support Human Rights Education #GivingTuesday

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Human rights education is as important now as it has ever been in promoting peace, dignity, freedom, equality and respect for all peoples here at home and around the world. This year, in celebration of #GivingTuesday, please consider supporting Human Rights Educators USA.

Your 100% tax-deductible donation will not only enable us to further develop programming that supports human rights education across the United States but also help us ensure that everyone has the opportunity to gain the knowledge, skills, and values to fully exercise and protect the human rights of themselves and others.

Learn more about the projects, partnerships and advocacy work that HRE USA engages in on behalf of our members and human rights educators in the United States. 

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Ripple of Hope Awards Virtual Gala

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EVENT DETAILS: 
When: Thursday, December 10, 2020
Where: Live Stream
Cost: $100

Description:
Don’t miss the RFK Human Rights Ripple of Hope Awards to honor this years’ 2020 Ripple of Hope Laureates: Dr. Anthony Fauci (Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), Dolores Huerta (President and Founder, Dolores Huerta Foundation; Co-Founder, United Farm Workers of America), Colin Kaepernick (Human Rights Activist, Co-Founder of Know Your Rights Camp, Super Bowl Quarterback), Dan Schulman (President and Chief Executive Officer, PayPal), and Dan Springer (Chief Executive Officer, DocuSign). 

The Ripple of Hope award celebrates leaders of the international business, entertainment, and activist communities who have demonstrated a commitment to social change and reflect Robert Kennedy’s passion for equality, justice, basic human rights, and his belief that each of us can make a difference. 

>> Learn more and get your tickets

Call for Papers – The Age for Human Rights Journal

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The Age of Human Rights Journal (TAHRJ) invites submissions for its June 2021 publication on the topic of Human Rights from Different Approaches. TAHRG is a scientific journal of international relevance, published in English, peer-reviewed and open-access, containing papers concerning Human Rights from different approaches. 

The Journal has been included in SCOPUS and in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science). It is also in: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), LATINDEX (catalogue), ISOC (CSIC), DIALNET, CIRC, ERIH PLUS, CARHUS PLUS, MIAR, ULRICH´S, OCLC, WORLDCAT, REDIB, EUROPUB, and Philosopher´s Index.

Submission Deadline:  February 1, 2021

Preferably, manuscripts should be directly uploaded to the journal platform, but they can also be sent to tahrj@ujaen.es.

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Human Rights High School Essay Contest

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This is the 20th year of the Kemper Human Rights Education Foundation’s human rights essay contests for high school students. Winners are awarded $1000 and runner ups $500. Never since World War II have human rights been so threatened as they are today by the coronavirus pandemic. Never since the end of the war has it been more important to motivate students to write about ways to right rights.

Essays should be between 1000 and 2500 words and will be judged according to how clearly and well they answer the question posed and the extent to which they are supported by research. Click the link below for further information on the essay question, criteria, and eligibility. 

Submission Deadline:  December 10, 2020

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Open Global Rights

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Today’s human rights networks are sophisticated, dense, and multifaceted. Access to the debates shaping these networks’ activities, however, is still restricted by language, money, ideology, and power.

Enter openGlobalRights, a multilingual, online forum dedicated to debating human rights work from all perspectives. We cultivate new and established authors, highlight cutting-edge disagreements, and publish work by advocates, practitioners, and scholars worldwide.

We take special care to highlight perspectives from the global South and encourage debate across global cleavages of all kinds. Our articles are short and readable but contain a wealth of hyperlinks for further investigation.

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Oak Human Rights Fellowship

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The Oak Institute for Human Rights at Colby College in Waterville, Maine has opened their call for nominations and applications for the 2021 Oak Human Rights Fellow. The fellowship provides a one-semester activist-in-residence opportunity for a human rights activist operating in difficult or dangerous circumstances to come to Colby College, for respite from front-line duties so they can reflect on their experiences.

Application Deadline:  December 30, 2020

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In Conversation With Betty Reardon

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A FREE series of short Q/A sessions in which Betty Reardon shares her ideas about sexism, peace and peace education and her experience as a peace activist and educator. Betty A. Reardon is a world-renowned leader in the fields of peace education and human rights; her pioneering work has laid the foundation for a new cross-disciplinary integration of peace education and international human rights from a gender-conscious, global perspective. This is a project of Sansristi, the Global Campaign for Peace Education, and Prajnya.

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Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States

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The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government has published a new nonpartisan, evidence-based report, Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Towards a More Equal Liberty.

The report includes the results of a national survey of American attitudes toward rights and freedoms in the United States which revealed surprising bipartisan support by substantial majorities of Americans for rights that are now frequently under political attack.  At the same time, the poll found that majorities of people feel that rights are facing “serious threat” and are not “secure” and that neither the US government nor US citizens are “doing a good job enforcing and respecting rights.”

The report includes 80 recommendations for federal, state and local policymakers laid out with the goal of building a more equal liberty for Americans today and in the future. 

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HRE USA is a project of the Center for Transformative Action
The core values of HRE USA and its partner organizations include transparency and critical thinking skills. We believe that human rights--and human rights education--belong to everyone, and that the full realization of human rights means that access to human rights education materials must never be conditioned upon the subscription to any particular religious faith, ideology, political affiliation, or membership in any particular organization and that any organizational connections should be openly acknowledged.