Welcome to the November 2023 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of important human rights stories from around the world. Topics include the release of a political prisoner in the Philippines and new rights protections in New York City.
Read MoreWelcome to the March 2022 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of important human rights stories from around the world. Topics include arrests in Russia and the global targeting of human rights defenders.
Read MoreCheck out the March 2021 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of human rights news from around the world. Topics include ongoing violence by state forces in Myanmar and voting restrictions in the United States.
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 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 MoreAbortion bans in Georgia and Alabama are the latest attempts in a long line of assaults on the rights of women and people who can get pregnant to control their own bodies. Reproductive Justice provides a framework to protect our communities.
Read MoreIn July 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that transgender people would no longer be allowed to serve openly in the military. Several groups pushed back in federal courts, but by January 2019, the Supreme Court lifted two injunctions that had been helping to keep the ban from going into effect.
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 >
