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Thank you to everyone who joined us in celebrating the 35th anniversary of the CRC through our Training As Action Series!

The theme of the 2024-2025 virtual training series was: “Youth Power, Defending Human Rights: Learnings and Actions for the 35th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).”

If you were unable to attend sessions, recordings are available at our YouTube channel and on our website!

Introduction to Human Rights Educators USA   >> Session recording
Module 1: Youth Power, Defending Human Rights   >> Session recording
Module 2: Know Your (Human) Rights: Education for Youth Empowerment   >> Session recording
Module 3: Trust Kids! Dismantling Hierarchy in Human Rights Advocacy >> Session recording
Module 4: A Children’s Rights-Lens to Youth Human Rights Advocacy >> Session recording
Module 5: Digital Citizenship & Human Rights in the Age of Disinformation>> Session recording
Module 6: Challenging U.S.-Centric Models, Building International Youth Solidarity >> Session recording
Module 7: Big Actions, Big Feelings: Practical Empathy in Human Rights >> Session recording
Module 8: Theory of Change: Designing Youth Spaces/Places in Human Rights >> Session recording

Slides, resources, and notes from TAAS sessions are available on our website at 
https://hreusa.org/projects/training-as-action-series/

Thank you to our TAAS 2024-25 Co-sponsors!

Monday, April 14, 7-8:30 pm EST 

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In human rights work, it is a challenge to navigate the difficult and complex emotions one experiences as a professional while maintaining one’s humanity and empathy. In this module, participants will better understand methods to avoid becoming burnt out or emotionally drained in their human rights work by exploring different wellness strategies and opportunities for community support.

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Monday, March 10, 7-8:30 pm EST 

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As one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, the United States of America can often find itself at the center of human rights spaces and discussion. This module seeks to dismantle U.S.-centric models of understanding human rights in favor of a model that uplifts international solidarity. Participants will analyze comparative case studies of human rights issues in the U.S. and globally and will examine what international solidarity looks and feels like.

Monday, February 24, 7-8:30 pm EST 

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Facilitators:

Carrie Booth Walling is Director of the Human Rights Program at the University of Minnesota – a hub of interdisciplinary research, teaching, and community outreach in the field of human rights in the College of Liberal Arts. She is Director of Graduate Studies for the Graduate Minor in Human Rights, a faculty member in the Institute for Global Studies and affiliated faculty at the Hubert H. Humphrey School for Public Affairs. Walling specializes in human rights, human security, transitional justice, the United Nations Security Council and mass atrocity crimes. Passionate about everything human rights, Walling’s recent book, Human Rights and Justice for All: Demanding Dignity in the United States and Around the World encourages readers to see the human rights issues in their neighborhoods and equips them to engage in human rights advocacy to promote policy change. Walling is also author of All Necessary Measures: the United Nations and Humanitarian Intervention. 

Elizabeth Schwab is an undergraduate at Boston College studying Communication and International Studies with a concentration in Social Justice and Ethics. She is a Gabelli Presidential Scholar at Boston College, a National Stamps Scholar, and a McGillycuddy-Logue Fellow at Boston College. She has researched ethical volunteering with vulnerable groups while teaching English to Syrian and Ukrainian refugees in Germany. With experience working with The New York Times, she specializes in the intersection between journalism and human rights education.

This module aims to support participants in navigating the intersection between human rights and technology. Participants will understand digital citizenship and using technology for human rights defense, be prepared to hold difficult conversations about the use of technology with youth, and strategize how to combat misinformation.

Monday, February 10, 7-8:30 pm EST 

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Session Facilitators: Nina Simone Grotch | Woven Foundation and Felisa Tibbitts

Felisa Tibbitts (www.FelisaTibbitts.com) is Chair in Human Rights Education in the Department of Law, Economics, and Governance at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, where she also serves as UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Higher Education. In addition, Felisa is Human Rights Education Associates (www.hrea.org) Executive Director and co-editor with André Keet of Emancipatory Human Rights and the University: Promoting Social Justice in Higher Education (2024). Human Rights Education Now! Podcast 12 and 13