Welcome to the October 2022 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of important human rights stories from around the world. Topics include poverty discrimination and everyday heroes.
Read MoreWelcome to the February 2022 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of important human rights stories from around the world. Topics include a bold Olympian and a breakthrough for non-binary people in Mexico.
Read MoreCheck out the November 2021 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of human rights news from around the world. Topics include refugees in Belarus and Poland and the need for a global vaccine agreement.
Read MoreCheck out the January 2021 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of human rights news from around the world. Topics include Trump’s 1776 Commission and transgender rights in Romania.
Read MoreCheck out the November 2020 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of human rights news from around the world. Topics include protests against police violence in France and human rights violations by conservationists in Democratic Republic of Congo.
Read MoreCheck out the July 2020 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of human rights news from around the world. Topics include police violence in the U.S., repression of China’s Uighur communities, and more.
Read MoreCheck out the June 2020 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of human rights news from around the world. Topics include police violence in the U.S., human rights violations in the clean energy sector, and more.
Read MoreCheck out the May 2020 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of human rights news from around the world. Topics include COVID-19, Beijing’s crackdown on Hong Kong, and the police killing of George Floyd.
Read MoreAs panic about COVID-19, also known as Novel Coronavirus, has spread through communities around the world, xenophobia against people of Asian descent has increased noticeably.
Read MoreCheck out the January 2020 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of human rights news from around the world.
Read MoreCheck out the December 2019 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of human rights news from around the world.
Read MoreCheck out the November 2019 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of human rights news from around the world.
Read MoreCheck out the August 2019 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of human rights news from around the world.
Read MoreCheck out the May 2019 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of human rights news from around the world.
Read MoreYou Have the Right To… is a brand new poster that Woven Teaching has created for your classroom. Help students learn about the 30 Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Learn more >
October 22, 2024
Woven Teaching’s latest resource, Defending Democracy: Lessons for Building Resilience and Taking Action, is now available!
Inspired by Timothy Snyder's, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, the curriculum’s 15 lessons encourage civic engagement and global citizenship, and emphasize critical thinking, media literacy and community-building. Download >
August 26, 2024
Woven Teaching was proud to partner with Women Forward International (WFI) and Ygnacio Valley High School in Concord, CA to offer a class of “newcomer students” a project to learn about human rights and how to protect and uphold them. Read more >
