Bangladeshi Students Shine Spotlight on Nation’s URGENT Human Rights Issues

Bangladeshi Students Shine Spotlight on Nation’s URGENT Human Rights Issues
In Bangladesh, a country the size of the state of Idaho, nearly 83 percent of the population lives on less than $2 a day. The world’s second-largest exporter of clothing, Bangladesh pays garment workers as little as $68 a month for 10-hour days under sweatshop conditions. Some 85 percent of these workers are women—who are left with the choice of putting up with deplorable conditions or no job.

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Attorney General Prioritizes Rights Education Toward Human Rights in Guatemala

Attorney General Prioritizes Rights Education Toward Human Rights in Guatemala
Over 200,000 Guatemalans died in the 1960-1996 civil war. According to the UN-sponsored Historical Clarification Commission, 83 percent of those killed were indigenous Mayans, and 93 percent of these gross human rights violations were perpetrated by the military. To help the country recover from this nightmare, the Guatemala Congress charged the Human Rights Attorney General with the task of defending the rights established in the Constitution of the Republic and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Human Rights Education: What Officials Say

Human Rights Education: What Officials Say
At the end of the presentation, an anti-bullying music video (UNITED) was shown. The children loved it so much they begged to see it again. During the video, their eyes were glued to the screen and at the end, many students joined in clapping their hands as well....

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Scaling the Summits to Promote Human Rights

Scaling the Summits to Promote Human Rights
Italian alpine climber Daniele Nardi is one of an elite group who have made it to the summit of five of the 14 highest mountains on Earth, the “eight-thousanders” as they are known because they rise above 8,000 meters (26,200 feet). His mountaineering conquests include reaching the summit of the two tallest peaks: Mount Everest and the notoriously dangerous K2.

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Youth for Human Rights Teaches Students to Take a Stand

Youth for Human Rights Teaches Students to Take a Stand
Human rights education is implemented in modern school systems to bring an end to bullying and other conflicts of contemporary life in North America. Following are excerpts from the reports of two teachers using the Youth for Human Rights program in their classrooms.

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Human Rights for a New Generation Educating Young People in Timor-Leste

Human Rights for a New Generation Educating Young People in Timor-Leste
After hundreds of years of Portuguese colonial rule and 24 years of Indonesian occupation, and its aftermath that left hundreds of thousands of people homeless or dead and destroyed most of the country’s homes and schools, the new nation of Timor-Leste emerged in 2002 as the world’s first sovereign nation born in the 21st century.

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Bringing Reform to Colombian Army and Restoring “Faith in the Cause”

Bringing Reform to Colombian Army and Restoring “Faith in the Cause”
For more than 50 years, Colombia has been torn by internal armed conflict, with the National Army and paramilitary groups waging a counterinsurgency war against left-wing guerrillas. During the bloody conflict, serious human rights violations have been perpetrated.

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World Program for Human Rights Education

World Program for Human Rights Education
On December 10, 2004, at the close of the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, the UN General Assembly announced the three-phase World Program for Human Rights Education to advance implementation of human rights education programs in all sectors of society.

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WHEN COMPASSION LEADS TO ADVOCACY

WHEN COMPASSION LEADS TO ADVOCACY
At the other end of the spectrum from egregious human rights violations by security forces in Colombia, the Bringing Human Rights to Life curriculum of United for Human Rights is taught by classroom teachers worldwide.

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