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ROBERT F. KENNEDY HUMAN RIGHTS

SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER

A human rights education program

ABOUT ROBERT F. KENNEDY HUMAN RIGHTS

ROBERT F. KENNEDY HUMAN RIGHTS

What are Human Rights?

Human rights principles hold up the vision of a free, just, and peaceful world, and set minimum standards for how individuals and institutions everywhere should treat people. Human Rights are the rights a person has simply because they are a human being. Human rights are those basic standards without which people cannot live with dignity.

The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. It is currently made up of 193 Member States. The mission and work of the United Nations are guided by the purposes and principles contained in its founding Charter. The United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948 and consists of 30 articles that identify and explain the basic rights and freedoms of all people.

The Universal Declaration

• f Human Rights

Visit https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ for more information.

Visit https://www.thinglink.com/scene/885518633164341250 for more information.

Human Rights Education (HRE)

Human Rights Education encompasses education about human rights, through human rights, and for human rights.

Human Rights Education is a deliberate, participatory practice aimed at empowering individuals, groups, and communities through fostering knowledge, skills, and attitudes consistent with internationally recognized human rights principles. Its goal is to help people understand human rights, value human rights, and take responsibility for respecting, defending, and promoting human rights.

Speak Truth to Power is a multidimensional human rights education program that combines powerful storytelling and interactive learning to provide this generation with the knowledge and tools necessary to end and prevent human rights abuses around the world.

To date, our work has inspired an estimated 5.7 million students, teachers, community leaders, and citizens, teaching them to be empathetic and emboldened champions of human rights.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

STTP OBJECTIVES

Our vision for a just and peaceful world through HRE is grounded in:

• Building educator capacity to ingrain

human rights education into the fabric

• f their pedagogy
• Reinforcing attitudes, mindsets and

behaviors in the learning process for all participants so that they advance and protect human rights in their everyday lives

• All participants identifying as human

rights defenders through mindful action (Aligned with UDHR and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs))

APPROACH

Human rights through storytelling

What sets us apart is our commitment to telling stories. Motivated and defined by the lives and activism of 60+ human rights defenders, our work is based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, employing the words, opinions and courage of these defenders as entry points into understanding and promoting universal human rights law, standards, and advocacy.

STTP AROUND THE GLOBE

Where we work

STTP has been established in 20+ countries, and is being pursued in more. (Established and prospective host countries indicated in blue.)

Defenders from around the world

Our human rights defenders come from a wide range of countries from all over the

• world. (Defenders’ home

countries indicated in blue.)

MEET STTP IN YOUR CITY

Where we work:

• Austin, TX
• Chicago, IL
• Greenwich /

Hartford / Stamford, CT

• Indianapolis, IN
• Los Angeles, CA
• Memphis, TN
• New York City,

NY

• Philadelphia, PA
• Phoenix / Tucson,

AZ

• San Diego, CA
• Washington, D.C.

Lesson plans

>1.4 MILLION STUDENTS REACHED >9,090 EDUCATORS TRAINED DISPLAYED IN 4 CONTINENTS >5,000 ENTRIES AND >55,000 STUDENTS REACHED PERFORMED IN >30 COUNTRIES AND IN 9 LANGUAGES

Educator trainings Contests Photo exhibit Play

Over 60 teacher-developed lesson plans available in 7 languages and used in 18 countries. Available for students from kindergarten to law school. STTP provides in-depth plans and trainings for implementation in schools and communities. We also host online events for sharing STTP best practices. We host an annual music contest in partnership with the GRAMMY museum, and an annual film contest in partnership with the Tribeca Film Festival. A traveling photo exhibit with portraits by Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer, Eddie Adams. A play, Speak Truth to Power: Voices Beyond the Dark, by award-winning play

• wright, Ariel Dorfman performed by actors

such as Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore.

WHAT WE DO

INSIDE A LESSON PLAN

Each lesson is aligned with UDHR articles and provides tips for teachers for implementation (including guiding questions and grade suggestions). Each lesson plan aligns with Common Core Learning Standards so that human rights education serves as a tool to achieve existing curricula objectives.

The “Become a Defender” section calls on students to use what they have learned to take targeted and mindful action for change.

Meet the Defenders

DISCOVERY EDUCATION

Through our partnership with Discovery Education our human rights education materials have the potential to reach 3 million teachers and 30 million students.

Digitized content

With a Virtual Field Trip, Interactive Map, and a Video Vignette series, classrooms have access to an expanding collection of standards-aligned teaching tools.

• Town hall style Virtual Field Trip featuring new and established human rights

defenders

• An interactive defenders map with educator guide to help teachers integrate the

map and its content into classroom plans

• An engaging defender video series with accompanying standards-aligned activities

https://www.speaktruthtopowerinschool.com/

CONTESTS

“The greatest voice is the voice of the people – speaking out

• in prose, or painting or poetry or music; speaking out - in

homes and halls, streets and farms, courts and cafes - let that voice speak and the stillness you hear will be the gratitude of mankind.”

• Robert F. Kennedy

VIDEO CONTEST

Video Contest

Since 2010, in partnership with the Tribeca Film Festival and the American Federation of Teachers, STTP has hosted a video contest that encourages students to use filmmaking to bring to life the stories and advocacy of STTP defenders.

2019 Grand Prize Winner:

Rodney Glasgow: The Power in a Whisper https://rflhumanrights.org/work/teaching-human-rights /contests

Dates: Deadline June 15, 2020

Questions? Email sttp@rflhumanrights.org

JOIN OUR VIDEO CONTEST WEBINAR ON THIS THURSDAY, APRIL 30 TO LEARN FILMMAKING TIPS!

Music Contest

Speak Up, Sing Out Music Contest

In 2015, STTP and the GRAMMY museum hosted an inaugural concert for the Speak Up, Sing Out Music

• contest. The concert featured musicians such as

Melissa Etheridge, Rocky Dawuni, and David Crosby. With creativity and activism serving as the theme of the evening, the event brought together several generations, proving that art can serve as the perfect platform for change. Since its launch, the music contest continues to inspire students to speak up and sing out.

2019 GRAND PRIZE WINNER:

“Solid Gold" by Tess Lira https://rflhumanrights.org/work/teaching-human-rights/contests/music-contest

Dates: Deadline June 15, 2020

Questions? Email sttp@rflhumanrights.org

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Video Contest Zoom Webinar

Thursday, April 30 @ 3:00pm EST

• Zooming for Human Rights Education, Session 2:

Arts Education for Human Rights Monday, May 11 @ 4:00pm EST

• Zooming for Human Rights Education, Session 3:

“Becoming a Defender” Monday, May 18 @ 4:00pm EST

• Defender Speaker Series

Dates to be announced soon! Registration links and more to come...

THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING AND DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS! Stay in touch! Reach out to us at sttp@rflhumanrights.org “Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.”

• Robert F. Kennedy