Allida Black discusses Eleanor Roosevelt's expanding views on civil rights in the United States as she negotiates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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 discusses the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the 1997 New York Benefit Dinner.
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.
In this trailer for the film Sorry We Missed You, director Ken Loach highlights the devastating impacts of the gig economy.
Susan Friedman speaks about her time in Bosnia as a journalist for the TODAY Show
This video, promoted by Thames Valley Police, approaches the matter of consent by comparing it accepting a cup of tea.
Marjorie Agosin discusses women’s artistic response to Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile.
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.
Listen to the introduction from day one of the UDHR Workshop.
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."
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.