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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

Anthropology News

There is a long history of US imperial politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. Throughout the Cold War, campaigns of discreditation against capitalist alternatives flourished in the United States, and identity-based and human-rights-focused campaigns became more prominent.

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Gaza’s Deaf Community in the Face of Genocide

Sapiens

In 2012, the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children led a training in gastronomy and food service ahead of opening the first deaf restaurant in Gaza. They also resist corporate and government efforts to use technologies designed for accessibility to wage war, such as through the development of weaponized prosthetics.

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Nurturing Global Citizenship Through ‘British Values’ (Book Release: Developing Quality PSHE in Secondary Schools and Colleges)

Geogramblings

For instance, in 2021 for the first time in its 200-year history the UK Census allowed people the option to state their sexual orientation and gender identity. They are fundamentally values of human rights that are shared amongst vast numbers of the world’s population. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Teaching About Palestine-Israel and the Unfolding Genocide in Gaza

Zinn Education Project

No doubt, there is a long history of violence in the region — including the Oct. One cannot understand this tragedy without acknowledging its history. Students need to examine how the current crisis is shaped in large part by settler colonial history, and the role played by world powers. context and shared cultural history.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Rory Doyle for The Hechinger Report.

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OPINION: Time to bring back our relationship with UNESCO for its strong commitment to education

The Hechinger Report

The mural, which stretches the length of a football field, intersperses student artwork with text from the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was inspired by a group of eighth graders who, in December 2012, just months after Yousafzai’s shooting, had attended a human rights conference in Canada.