Welcome to the July 2024 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of important human rights stories from around the world. Topics include discrimination at the 2024 Summer Olympics and a win for food justice.
Read MoreIn recent weeks, high school students across the U.S. have walked out of campuses in protest of what some students view as COVID protocols that are too lax and/or not enforced. These students are exercising their freedom of opinion and assembly. Do the students in your classroom know their rights?
Read MoreCheck out the August 2021 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of human rights news from around the world. Topics include Taliban takeover in Afghanistan and enforced disappearances in Bangladesh.
Read MoreThe impact of COVID-19 has been devastating. Check out the latest blog post to learn about the pandemic’s wide-reaching impact on the world’s children.
Read MoreCheck out the August 2020 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of human rights news from around the world. Topics include Venezuela’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the NBA wildcat strike, and more.
Read MoreThe world has changed dramatically since the last time many students and teachers were in the classroom, so we’ve compiled a list of resources to help navigate the current moment.
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 MoreCheck out the April 2020 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of human rights news from around the world. Topics include world hunger, increasing police violence, and transgender rights.
Read MoreRecently, the Trump administration recently attempted to use the coronavirus pandemic to halt all immigration into the U.S. for the next 60 days. From racist comments to pending legislation, immigrants and others perceived as foreigners have been continually blamed and othered during this health crisis. These words and actions have very real consequences and escalate fear and prejudice during already uncertain times.
Read MoreCheck out the March 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, women’s rights in Mexico, and disability rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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 December 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 >
