HRW Student Task Force

04/26/2024

Carlsbad STFers became the first chapter to speak with their Congressional representative to discuss plans to protect asylum seekers. - https://mailchi.mp/4487510b8af1/counting-down-to-human-rights-day-6226720

04/19/2024

Please meet Jonmathew C., STF leader at Animo Venice Charter High School! - https://mailchi.mp/523249ce9ea1/stf-leader-spotlight-wesley-c-6225524

04/16/2024

Exciting news! We have a hearing date for Genesis v. EPA, which is April 29, 2024, at 10:00 am in Los Angeles. - https://mailchi.mp/db2179694b8f/special-invitation-hrw-film-festival-6225532

04/12/2024

Thacher and Hamilton High School kick off the series of upcoming events by hosting a film screening and in-class presentations. - https://mailchi.mp/74cf258ff1b1/counting-down-to-human-rights-day-6225308

04/08/2024

Palisades Charter High School successfully urged the school's Board of Directors to adopt their resolution to incorporate climate curriculum in all courses. - https://mailchi.mp/1fb9b799726b/special-invitation-hrw-film-festival-6224936

04/01/2024

When Words Kill -

April 10, 2020: To contribute to April's Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month, Human Rights Watch Student Task Force hosted its first-ever virtual discussion with special guests Rita Lurie, a Holocaust survivor, and Leslie Gilbert-Lurie, human rights advocate. The mother-daughter duo spoke with S...

03/14/2024

STF takes advantage of the fact that students spend most of their time in class and hosted in-class presentations, film screenings, and simulations to educate their campuses about this year's Action Plan. - https://mailchi.mp/9e9c5aa62e41/counting-down-to-human-rights-day-6223083

04/19/2023

10 Years of Film - https://mailchi.mp/19ae31b7a5b8/10-years-of-film
Please join us on Sunday, May 21 at 4pm for the HRW LA Film Club’s 10th anniversary with a screening and discussion of The Territory.

04/07/2023

"Don't Forget About Us" - https://mailchi.mp/dbeffbe3a982/dont-forget-about-us-2676999
Teacher Felicia Rangel-Samponaro asks the hundreds of children who pass through her makeshift schools in two Mexican border cities to draw what they think the United States is like...The drawings explain the children's reasons for leaving their homelands, their current realities on the border, and their future ambitions in the US.

04/04/2023

Title 42 Sparks Increasing Tensions In Mexico - https://mailchi.mp/357e4843f050/title-42-sparks-increasing-tensions-in-mexico-2676983
The situation on the southern border exploded on Monday when a protest at a government-run migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez led to a fire that killed at least 39 people...

03/31/2023

Why They Flee - https://mailchi.mp/cac9040db9e0/why-they-flee
March 27-28, 2023: STFers at Da Vinci Schools, Hamilton HS and Santa Monica HS hosted film screenings, table events, and interactive tent exhibitions to educate their classmates about threats to the human right to seek asylum in the US immigration system.

03/10/2023

Deadly Deterrence on the Northern Border - https://mailchi.mp/d8b069acfa95/deadly-deterrence-on-the-northern-border-2676867 Since March 2020 when Title 42 went into effect, an increasing number of migrants have been blocked at the southern border and prevented from asking for asylum. Many migrants are taking the northern border as a safer alternative.