Urgent Action: Execution set in USA for crime man cannot remember
Vernon Madison is scheduled to be executed in Alabama on 25 January. He lacks a rational understanding of his punishment.
Session 9: respect
Students look at the subtleties and connotations of language, and the impact words have in describing a person or event.
Session 7: speak up
Students explore how words can help process feelings of anger and helplessness – and bring about self-empowerment.
Session 5: witness
On film, poet Emtithal Mahmoud asks students to ‘bear witness’ to her experiences of genocide in Darfur.
Session 4: change
Students learn that everyone has a role to play in upholding human rights – in their school, community and world.
Urgent Action: Teen arrested at 14 still at risk of execution in Iran
Iranian teenager remains at risk of execution after his execution scheduled for 17 January was postponed.
Urgent Action good news: Tatar activist and prisoner of conscience released in Russia
On 27 Dec 2017, Tatar activist Rafis Kashapov was released from prison after having served the full three-year sentence
Urgent Action Update: Human rights defenders in Honduras under attack
Violence against human rights defenders monitoring and denouncing the violent repression of protests has increased
Urgent Action Update: Prisoner of conscience in Bahrain denied medication
Hassan Mshaima one of 11 jailed prominent Bahraini opposition activists, is being denied adequate healthcare in detention
Urgent Action: Two indigenous activists face life imprisonment in India
Two activists have been arrested for their role in the resistance to forced acquisition of land for a steel plant