Dear Colleagues, Please find below an annoucement of a service-learning workshop that HREA is co-organizing in Boston on May 16th. Best wishes, Felisa --------------------- The Suffolk University Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights, S.O.U.L.S. Community Service Center, Massachusetts CEDAW Project, Human Rights Education Associates (HREA), National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) and Economic Human Rights Project of Massachusetts bring you: LESSONS FROM KATRINA: ENGAGING STUDENTS IN DOCUMENTING VIOLATIONS OF ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS IN OUR COMMUNITIES Save the date: May 16th, 2006 12-4p.m. Suffolk University Boston, MA This training will provide service learning professionals, university faculty and others with a general framework for how to carry out a human rights documentation project and how to apply it as a service learning tool in the classroom. Participants will learn about what economic human rights are and how they are protected by the UN system, will participate in hands-on exercises analyzing human rights violations after Hurricane Katrina, and will learn about ongoing human rights documentation projects that they can engage in with their classes. Please RSVP and direct questions to: servicelearning@suffolk.edu Workshop Agenda Introduction: participants will learn about economic human rights and their connections to service-learning. Lessons from Katrina: participants will engage in an exercise to connect the experiences of people in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to the human rights protected in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Human Rights and Poverty: participants will discuss poverty and human rights in their own communities. United Nations Human Rights System: participants will learn about the United Nations (UN) human rights system and how communities can bring documentation of human rights violations before the UN. Taking Action at Home: participants will see video clips and hear about experiences from truth commissions, art exhibitions, and rallies organized in the United States to publicize human rights violations in local communities. Using Documentation in Your Work: participants will learn about ongoing human rights documentation campaigns and brainstorm projects they could do in their own communities. Guidelines for Gathering Testimony: participants can ask questions about how human rights documentation works, including ethical issues and tips for interviewing. Wrap-up and Resources: participants will learn about internet resources and organizations they can go to for more information about documentation and linking human rights and service-learning. Workshop Presenters Amy Agigian directs the Center for Women's Health and Human Rights and is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University. Trained in medical sociology and the sociology of women, gender, and sexuality, she is a long-time activist and the mother of a young son. Her book Baby Steps: How Lesbian Alternative Insemination is Changing the World was published by Wesleyan University Press in May 2004. Laura Roskos chairs the Advancing Human Rights Committee of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and is a co-founder of the Massachusetts CEDAW Project. She writes and teaches about the intersection of human rights and human security, and on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Grace Ross is the Green Party candidate for Governor of Massachusetts and a life-long activist in the movement to abolish poverty. She grew up in New York, came to Harvard for college and graduate work, and found her home in the streets and primarily low-income communities' struggle for survival and justice. She is a white lesbian living in Worcester. Liz Sullivan is a consultant with Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) and the Education Project Director at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI). She has given several trainings on using human rights in service learning and conducted a documentation project on human rights conditions in public schools in Los Angeles and New York City. ------------------------------------- Felisa Tibbitts, Director Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) - US office PO Box 382396, Cambridge, MA 02238 USA Visiting address: 97 Lowell Road, Concord, MA 01742 (tel) +1 978 341 0200 (fax) +1 978 341 0201 (e-mail) < > (Web) http://www.hrea.org ======== North American Human Rights Education listserv ======= Send mail intended for the list to < >. Archives of the list can be found at: http://www.hrea.org/lists/hr-education-na/ **You are welcome to reprint, copy, archive, quote or re-post this item, but please retain the original and listserv source.
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