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In Memoriam, Nancy Flowers, Stacey C. Ault, Bridget Love, Kristi Rudelius-Palmer, Jazzmin C. Gota Feb 2022

In Memoriam, Nancy Flowers, Stacey C. Ault, Bridget Love, Kristi Rudelius-Palmer, Jazzmin C. Gota

International Journal of Human Rights Education

The International Journal of Human Rights Education honors the lives and contributions of the following scholars and human rights advocates who recently passed away: Shulamith Koenig, Linda Garrett, David Weissbrodt, and Asma Eschen


Uyghur Diaspora Activism In The Face Of Genocide, Lina Lenberg Feb 2022

Uyghur Diaspora Activism In The Face Of Genocide, Lina Lenberg

International Journal of Human Rights Education

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Emotion And Memory In Third-Space Human Rights Education: An Examination Of Two National Museums, Ion Vlad Feb 2022

Emotion And Memory In Third-Space Human Rights Education: An Examination Of Two National Museums, Ion Vlad

International Journal of Human Rights Education

This article presents a comparative analysis of human rights education at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, USA (NCCHR) and the Canadian Museum of Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg. Specifically, what is analyzed is the role of emotion and memory in the construction of the exhibits and the impact on the visitor. The investigation is based on the author’s field observations at these two locations and interviews with staff. The museums are viewed as third spaces of education, situated somewhere between the home and the school, which presents particular dialogic openings in terms of human rights …


Human Rights Narratives From Myanmar: Decolonial And Relational Approaches To Solidarity, Amy Argenal Feb 2022

Human Rights Narratives From Myanmar: Decolonial And Relational Approaches To Solidarity, Amy Argenal

International Journal of Human Rights Education

Pulling from a participatory action research project with human rights activists in Myanmar, this article builds on post-colonial, decolonial and third world feminist theories (Abu-Lughod, 2002; Mahrouse, 2014; Mohanty, 2003; Mutua, 2001; Said, 1993; Weissman, 2004) around inherent power imbalances in international human rights work by highlighting voices often left out of the human rights discourse.This form of “speaking back” to dominant discourses offers a public pedagogy of human rights education. In this article, nine research participants offer narratives on their relationship with human rights discourses and discuss their practice. By looking at questions of how community activists from Myanmar …


Preparing Educators, Advocates, And Allies: Teacher Education In The Hre Movement, Sandra Sirota, Glenn Mitoma Feb 2022

Preparing Educators, Advocates, And Allies: Teacher Education In The Hre Movement, Sandra Sirota, Glenn Mitoma

International Journal of Human Rights Education

Despite several decades of international initiatives designed to promote human rights education (HRE) at the primary, secondary, and post-secondary level and the more recent trend of emergent human rights programs in colleges and universities in the United States (Advocates for Human Rights, 2016; Cargas, 2019), there is little evidence that United States teacher education programs have engaged human rights as a meaningful component in the preparation of future educators. In this article, we offer data from two separate studies showing the current state of HRE in teacher education. We consider the human rights of educators and learners in and outside …


What Are We Trying To Do Here? Epistemic Racism In Human Rights Teaching, Angelina Snodgrass Godoy Feb 2022

What Are We Trying To Do Here? Epistemic Racism In Human Rights Teaching, Angelina Snodgrass Godoy

International Journal of Human Rights Education

Across the disciplines, universities increasingly incorporate course offerings focusing on human rights in which students examine problems that disproportionately affect communities of color. Instructors often assume our teaching about these issues contributes to the cause of social justice by spotlighting the problems themselves, but this research challenges that assumption. Based on interviews with students of color enrolled in social justice courses at a U.S. public R1 university, this article explores the ways students described their experiences as a form of epistemological racism rooted in the privileging of academic perspectives, themselves laden with legacies of exclusion, over ways of knowing rooted …


Supporting Refugees And Asylum Seekers On Their College Journeys, Lindsey Kingston, Esma Karakas Feb 2022

Supporting Refugees And Asylum Seekers On Their College Journeys, Lindsey Kingston, Esma Karakas

International Journal of Human Rights Education

Armed conflict and political repression have created a refugee crisis in higher education, interrupting many students’ university educations or blocking young people from beginning their studies in the first place. This article outlines preliminary research findings from an ongoing project centered on improving displaced students’ access to American higher education. Motivation for this research stems from the values inherent to human rights education (HRE). Preliminary research data drawn from qualitative interviews with ten forcibly displaced students (or former students) living in Saint Louis, Missouri, highlight how refugees and asylum seekers face unique challenges in accessing higher education. In particular, this …


Three Boys, Three Murders: Children’S Rights, State Violence And The Open Wound Of The U.S.-Mexico Border, Genevieve M. Negrón-Gonzales Feb 2022

Three Boys, Three Murders: Children’S Rights, State Violence And The Open Wound Of The U.S.-Mexico Border, Genevieve M. Negrón-Gonzales

International Journal of Human Rights Education

This article examines the killing of three teenage boys at the U.S.-Mexico border between 2010 and 2013. Through an examination of these murders at the hands of U.S. Border Patrol and Customs and Border Enforcement agents, the article argues that the murders of Sergio Adrían Hernández Guereca, José Antonio Elena Rodríguez and Cruz Marcelino Velasquez Acevedo at the U.S.-Mexico border exemplify the reality that not all children are afforded the so-called universal protection of childhood as outlined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international human rights law. We can see how the state …