Lessons
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Non-violent activism and community organizing
Tags Share Remarks made at 2001 JFK profile in Courage Award ceremony, Boston, MA We wanted to test a Supreme Court ruling that banned segregation in an interstate travel facility. When the bus arrived in Rock Hill, South Carolina, I deboarded the bus and approached the white waiting room. We were being watched and someone…
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Protection from landmines and non-violence
Tags Share Excerpts from Jody Williams’ 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Lecture The desire to ban landmines is not new. In the late 1970s, the International Committee of the Red Cross, along with a handful of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), pressed the world to look at weapons that were particularly injurious and/or indiscriminate. One of the weapons…
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Peace, conflict resolution, and health
Tags Share Excerpts from Jimmy Carter’s 2002 Nobel Peace Prize Lecture The scope and character of our Center’s activities are perhaps unique, but in many other ways they are typical of the work being done by many hundreds of non-governmental organizations that strive for human rights and peace. Most Nobel laureates have carried out our…
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Sexual violence and personal security
Tags Share My name is Erin Merryn, I am a 30 year old from the suburbs of Chicago. My mission in life is to give kids a voice and put sex offenders out of business. Just weeks shy of my 7th birthday I was raped by my adult neighbor. It was so brutal I thought…
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Political participation and political rights
Tags Share Kek Galabru’s Interview with Kerry Kennedy When the United Nations took over Cambodia with 20,000 officers, we decided to start LICADHO (Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights). We didn’t have any money, so we opened a small office at my parents’ home. Word spread quickly about this new organization,…
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Fall 2022 Defender Speaker Series: Introductory Lesson for Kateryna Yushchenko
Tags Share This fall, we will be hosting a speaker series featuring conversations with world leaders, policy makers, educators, and human rights defenders to help you bring discussions of current human rights issues into your classroom. Each live webinar will be moderated by a student from one of our partner schools. Your students will also…
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Fall 2022 Defender Speaker Series: Introductory Lesson for Dr. Helen Bond
As states move to limit critical conversations in classrooms, Dr. Bond is using the U.N.’s sustainable development goals as a framework to promote equity and justice in education.
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Fall 2022 Defender Speaker Series: Introductory Lesson for Emir Suljagić
In the face of increasing religious and ethnic tensions around the world, the lessons learned from Srebrenica are especially relevant.
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Fall 2022 Defender Speaker Series: Introductory Lesson for Emir Suljagić
Module type not found: video This fall, we will be hosting a speaker series featuring conversations with world leaders, policy makers, educators, and human rights defenders to help you bring discussions of current human rights issues into your classroom. Each live webinar will be moderated by a student from one of our partner schools. Your…
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Young People Fighting Racism in the Justice System
Tags Share Fred T. Korematsu was a national civil rights hero. In 1942, at the age of 23, he refused to go to the government’s incarceration camps for Japanese Americans. After he was arrested and convicted of defying the government’s order, he appealed his case all the way to the Supreme Court. In 1944, the…
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Free Expression, Free Elections, and Democratic Reforms
Students learn about the policy of perestroika, how President Gorbachev pursued this policy, and how these changes within the Soviet Union led to different relationships with other nations.
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Nuclear Arms Control
Students engage with science and social issues by discussing peaceful uses of and safety standards for nuclear energy that are associated with the IAEA and the United States.
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