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Eleanor Roosevelt and the Declaration of Human Rights
Allida Black discusses Eleanor Roosevelt's expanding views on civil rights in the United States as she negotiates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
International Law, Testing the Limits: The ICC and Darfur
From the film "The Reckoning" , International prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo tells the story of the 2005 International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecution of war crimes in Darfur.
Kofi Annan on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Kofi Annan discusses the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the 1997 New York Benefit Dinner.
Seeking Peace and Seeking Justice: The ICC and Uganda
From the film "The Reckoning", this video uses voices of those who suffered to explore how the International Criminal Court’s involvement in Uganda has sparked conversation and action in the battle against the Lord's Resistant Army.
Susan Friedman at the 2013 Los Angeles Benefit Dinner
Susan Friedman speaks about her time in Bosnia as a journalist for the TODAY Show
The Arpilleras of Chile (with Marjorie Agosin)
Marjorie Agosin discusses women’s artistic response to Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile.
The Reckoning: Law or War: The Creation of the International Criminal Court
From the film "The Reckoning", featuring Ben Ferencz and other leaders discussing the establishment of the Rome statute and the creation of the first permanent international criminal court.
UDHR Workshop Day 1 Overview
Listen to the introduction from day one of the UDHR Workshop.
UDHR Workshop Day 2 Overview
The horrors of World War II, the new and frightening power of the atomic bomb, and the Nazi genocide of Jews and of others deemed unworthy to live shocked the consciences of people all over the world in 1945. This capacity and desire to destroy whole populations of humanity prompted First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to warn that "In the end...we are 'One World' and that which injures any one of us, injures all of us."
UDHR Workshop Day 3 Overview
Welcome to Day 3. Today we’ll focus on reasons human rights was controversial in the post-war United States and why “civil” rights, instead, became the focus. This session will also model a literacy strategy known as close read activity.
UDHR Workshop Day 5 Overview
Welcome to Day 5, our final session of the week. Today we’ll focus on the legacies of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that was not given the rule of law over the laws of individual sovereign states but nonetheless holds a great deal of influence over human rights legislation and promotion since its inception.
