Human Rights Education
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The Winners of Our 2017 Speak Truth to Power Video Contest
Tags Share Since 2010, the Speak Truth to Power Video Contest has inspired students to use film to take a stand against some of the world’s most pressing human rights abuses. Each year, young people from around the country submit short documentaries on human rights defenders who have been relentless in creating a more just…
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New Speak Truth to Power Lesson Plan Honors Dr. Martin Luther King’s Legacy
Tags Share “As a little kid, Ruby let me know that I too could make a difference. Creating this curriculum in honor of Ruby Bridges has instilled in me that my passion for advocating for human rights can coincide with my passion for mathematics. I hope this curriculum inspires others to abandon silence in order…
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Marianna V. Vardinoyannis Foundation Brings Human Rights Education Into Greek Classrooms
Tags Share Over the past few months, Speak Truth to Power partner, the Marianna V. Vardinoyannis Foundation, has worked tirelessly to bring STTP to Greece. Whether through individual collaboration or country-wide conferences, the Foundation has shown to be a dedicated and enthusiastic partner in creating the next generation of human rights defenders. Most recently, in…
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In Brussels, Speak Truth to Power Educator Conference Shines
Tags Share On September 10-12, over 30 educators, activists and social entrepreneurs gathered for the final STTP Summit at Education International headquarters in Brussels, Belgium to complete the STTP Roadmap with concrete, realizable actions that address four Impact Building Blocks: Product, Systems, Mobilization and Human Right Education Global Advocacy. The impact building blocks, emerging from…
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Speak Truth To Power Awarded $100,000 Grant by Schultz Family Foundation
The funding will allow Speak Truth to Power to expand its work in Baltimore and create a new youth-led video production component.
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In Bogota, a New Opportunity for Human Rights Education
Tags Share “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” We live in a time of destruction across the globe, where the greatest threat to peace is not an army or a nuclear war, but hate itself. Hate takes so many forms – Boko Haram in Nigeria, ISIS in Iraq and…
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RFK Human Rights Launches Speak Truth to Power in Portugal
The Portuguese curriculum tells the stories of Speak Truth to Power human rights defenders, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Malala Yousafzai.
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New Speak Truth to Power Lesson on Erin Merryn
In addition to passing Erin’s Law, the U.S. can be a leader in ending sexual assault by bringing RFK Human Rights’ Speak Truth To Power human rights curriculum to its schools.
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Farmingdale Student Wins 2016 Speak Truth to Power Video Contest
Tags Share (April 21, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and the Tribeca Film Institute (TFI), are proud to announce that Pat McGarry of Howell High School in Farmingdale, New Jersey has won the Grand Prize of the fifth annual Speak Truth To Power video contest.…
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RFK Human Rights Launches Speak Truth to Power in Norway
“The Speak Truth to Power curriculum empowers students to be agents of change. We are thrilled to be working with Norwegian schools to create a more just and peaceful world,” said Kerry Kennedy.
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New Human Rights Education Initiative Launches in Indianapolis
The partnership will allow teachers to participate in a two-day Speak Truth To Power training on February 17 and 18 at the Peace Learning Center in Indianapolis.
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A World Where ‘Never Again’ Means Something
Tags Share Today we commemorate the Holocaust and the massacre of 11 million people. As the former director of the Genocide Prevention Initiative at the US Memorial Holocaust Museum, my job was to give meaning to that otherwise empty phrase, Never Again. Holocaust survivor and the leader behind the creation of the museum, Elie Wiesel…
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