Human Rights Seminar

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Human Rights Tree Activity


Human Rights Process Model  (PDF)

Roots

A. What are the issues, concerns, or problems in your community?

• Education
• Access to health care and resources
• Housing
• Rights
  • Fair labor practice
  • Cultural rights
  • Human rights
  • Women rights
• Racism/Discrimination
  • Against refugees and immigrants
  • Against women
  • Economic discrimination
  • Classism

Bark

B. What are the Supports and Challenges of issues and problems in your community?
(Describe and Compare)

Supports

• Leadership/Freedoms/Sharing Stories
• Friends and Family
• Community Members/Advocates
• Education
  1. Historical Education around human rights, using the human rights framework in our respective field to begin the conversation and promote and protect rights.
  2. Community education on issues of health care
• Art
  1. Viewing and processing human rights and injustices through the arts.

Obstacles

• Racism/Discrimination
• Lack of Access to resources
  1. about benefits/resources for those earning a low
• Not enough forward thinking about human rights and human rights work domestically.
• Lack of a common language
• Cost of Education/no support of non western based education
• Limited funding, low wages and few resources
• Health care systems
• Lack of true reconciliation, accountability and leadership
• Misconceptions
• Lack of Respect
• Fears of activism and participation because of attention and being singled out.

• Support Others' Work
• Leadership Training
• Being Conscious about issues happening in the community
• Education
  1. Education on health care issues
  2. Educating yourself and others.
• Working toward a common understanding and respect for others' views and beliefs.
• Voicing opinions/Lobbying/Protesting
• Communicate and organize
• Be involved with already existing organizations
  1. Board involvement with local non-profit organizations to censure the promotion and protection of human rights.
  2. Further involvement in the election process
  3. Involvement with the international Human Rights Funder Groups.
• Volunteering time and money to existing organizations.

• Accountability, Responsibility, connecting human rights pieces together
• Tangible tools for human rights education
• An interactive approach of education

Supports and Challenges
(to the work you are already doing)