Lessons
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A Legacy of Combating Rural Poverty
Students research how rural poverty affects health, education, employment, and housing.
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Reconciliation
Starting a peer mediation club or civic engagement group are just a few examples included in the lesson plan of how students can become human rights defenders in their community.
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Giving Voice to the Voiceless
In this lesson, students learn about the human rights conditions in Sudan and how ordinary citizens can make a difference in fighting those abuses.
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Criminal Justice and the New Jim Crow
Learners create educational materials on mass incarceration, reach out to their state representatives, and take mindful action with the organizations of two human rights defenders, Andrea James and Bryan Stevenson.
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Steward of Justice and Peace
Students examine the roles of religion and nonviolence in modern protest movements.
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Defending Children’s Rights
Students learn about why children are targeted for combat, assess the effects on child soldiers, and find out how to defend the rights of children.
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Civil Rights and the Right to Education
Explore Robert F. Kennedy’s legacy of pushing for quality education for all through the work of Ruby Bridges and Aaron Maybin.
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Fashion and consumption
Tags Share With fast fashion’s status as the second most polluting industry (second only to the oil industry) and its 2.1 billion tons of annual carbon emissions making up at least 4% of the world’s total, the environmental impact our clothes have on the planet can’t be overlooked. While efforts to move towards sustainability have…
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Arctic
Tags Share Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at three times the global average, resulting in drastic impacts on local communities, especially indigenous groups. Rising sea levels, extreme temperature events, and depletion of natural resources have resulted in a human rights crisis. The Arctic Council, comprised of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and…
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Climate change
Tags Share Human-caused climate change is impacting communities all around the world, resulting in devastating effects such as intense heat waves, wildfires, worsening storms and flooding, and glacial melt. Certain communities such as children, older adults, communities of color, and low-income communities are especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change. For example, many organizations…
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Coral reefs
Tags Share A key aspect of the Speak Truth To Power program is the central idea of human rights defenders. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals also embraces this idea of the impact of the individual person. Of course, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are meant to be achieved by Member States as a whole by…
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Solar panels
Tags Share To avert the worst effects of climate change, consensus among scientists and policymakers is to limit the long‐term increase in average global temperatures to 1.5 °C, which in turn entails reducing global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to net zero by 2050. Ending reliance on fossil fuels and investing in renewable sources of energy…
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