Welcome to the October 2024 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of important human rights stories from around the world. Topics include atrocities in northern Gaza and a victory for Indigenous groups in Finland.
Read MoreWelcome 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 MoreWelcome to the March 2024 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of important human rights stories from around the world. Topics include a landmark environmental case in Peru and world guidelines for the responsible use of AI.
Read MoreWelcome to the January 2024 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of important human rights stories from around the world. Topics include the women human rights defenders in Myanmar and anti-LGBTQIA+ bills in Texas.
Read MoreWelcome to the November 2022 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of important human rights stories from around the world. Topics include labor rights at the World Cup and the UN’s new High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Read MoreWelcome to the June 2022 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of important human rights stories from around the world. Topics include book bans, abortion rights, and labor organizing.
Read MoreCheck out the October 2020 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of human rights news from around the world. Topics include protests in Nigeria, gender discrimination in sports, and freedom of expression.
Read MoreCheck out the September 2020 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of human rights news from around the world. Topics include the global increase in child labor, a women’s protest in Mexico, and a break in the pending genocide case against Myanmar.
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 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 MoreCheck out the September 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 >
