Tags Share Guns Down, Arms Up, the 2023 Speak Truth to Power Video Contest winning film, is a powerful exploration of the horrific prevalence of gun violence in schools and a stirring call to action. In a recent interview, filmmakers Naba Sheikh and Tohir Hodjakulov of James Madison High School, shared their reasons for making…
Tags Share In this installment of our UDHR series, engage in professional development for human rights educators by learning more about positive and negative rights. Essentially, positive rights outline what a government or institution should do, while negative rights focus on what they should not do. Understanding this distinction can help determine the best way…
Tags Share According to a recent poll, 50% of students say they are not engaged in what they are learning and 80% of educators are worried about students’ lack of engagement. Theater work, like the recent theater workshop in Sonora, Mexico, can increase student engagement and empower them to become human rights defenders. In March,…
Tags Share Community organizer and social justice defender Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson advocates for social rights in northeast Tennessee and elsewhere through her work as Co-Executive Director of the influential Highlander Research and Education Center. Social Rights Social rights refer to the dynamic interdependence of individuals in their living and working conditions, encompassing fundamental necessities for…
Tags Share In our December 2023 newsletter, we celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by providing a very brief history of its creation. To start off the new year, we’re following up with ways to take action to promote and defend the rights outlined in the UDHR by incorporating the…
Tags Share Upon hearing of the death of Harry Belafonte, we understood the necessity of memorializing Harry beyond his fame and examining him as the man he was. Our three interviewees, Gina Belafonte, Maria Belafonte, and David Goodman, were each able to speak to a more intimate side of Harry, having known him mostly in…
Tags Share Darrick Hamilton: Economic Rights What are Economic Rights? Economic rights are human rights that relate to the workplace, social security and access to housing, food, water, healthcare and education. They include the right to fair wages and equal pay; the right to adequate protection in the event of unemployment, sickness or old age;…
Thousands of young men and women serve in the Peace Corps, in isolated villages and city slums all over the globe . . .
The young throughout the world will not wait for our concern.
Under conditions of turbulence, social and political change, the young are often directly involved not in learning history in the classroom, but in making history themselves.
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