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STF Leaders Convene to Launch New Year and Semester, January 10, 2012
On Tuesday, January 10, over 40 student leaders, teachers, guests and members of the STF Team attended STF's Leaders Meeting to kick off our Spring 2012 semester to re-energize our Right to Education campaign. Download the minutes here.
Leaders prepared for the spring while highlighting successes from the fall semester including:
- STF created materials and established two Human Rights Mobile Libraries in refugee camps in Southeastern Chad.
- Gabriel Stauring and Katie-Jay Scott presented photos, videos and intimate stories from I-ACT's most recent trip to Chad in support of Darfuri refugees. Video of their presentation will be available soon.
- The STF Team presented a list of organizing ideas and opportunities for STF chapters to plan events based on the Right to Education this spring.
Download meeting minutes here.
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Learn more about Adam and Rahma, the Human Rights Mobile Librarians.
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I-ACT's Gabriel Stauring challenges STF leaders to
consider
how
they can continue partnering with Darfuri
refugees
in Chad through Human Rights Mobile Libraries.
Photo by Mason Butts
Photo by Mason Butts
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Reporting from Camp Djabal: STF Holds Conference Call With I-ACT
November 30, 2011
Click below to hear STF's call with Gabriel Stauring while on the ground in Camp Djabal in Chad. In the call, Gabriel discusses the implementation of the first Human Rights Mobile Library and the challenges facing Darfuri refugees after being in camps nearly a decade.
Download the call minutes here.
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Adam (left) and Gabriel Stauring (right) speak
about the future of the camps and education.
Image courtesy of I-ACT. |
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STF Screens "The First Grader" at four local high schools
On Tuesday, November 1, all STF leaders representing the Santa Clarita Valley joined forces to host a screening of The First Grader, a feature film about an 84-year-old man who fought for his country and now feels he must have the chance of an education - even if it means sitting in a classroom with six-year-olds. This was STF's first major student-led event series to raise awareness through STF's Right to Education campain.
Additional screenings were held at Wildwood School on November 18 with over 12o attendees, at Sierra Canyon School on December 2 with over 80 attendees, and at Palisades Charter High School with over 350 attendees to create awareness of the Human Rights Mobile Library. All events concluded with a Q&A session with the film's producer, Richard Harding.
View coverage of Palisades Charter High School's screening in the Palisades Post. |
Wildwood STF celebrates a successful screening of
The First Grader with producer Richard Harding.
Photo by Pam Bruns.
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STF Hosts Reception for HRW 2011 Defender Awardees, November 15, 2011
The Student Task Force joined the HRW California Committee South to celebrate the recipients of the 2011 Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism. This year the award went to Sussan Tahmasebi, who raises broad public awareness
about how discriminatory laws violate the human rights of women in Iran; and, Sister Consuelo Morales who defends victims from disappearances and abuses committed by security forces in Mexico.
Prior to the award ceremony, STF hosted a reception where
fifty STF student leaders and teachers met directly with Ms. Tahmasebi and
Sister Morales. STF was also greeted by HRW Emergencies Director, Peter Bouckaert, and researchers Faraz Sanei and Nik Steinberg from HRW's Middle East and North Africa Division
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Human Rights Watch 2011 Defender Award recipient, Sussan Tahmasebi (right) with HRW Researcher, Faraz Sanei (left).
Photo by Maya Myers
View the Event Slideshow
Photos by Maya Myers
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STF Establishes the First Human Rights Mobile Library, November 15, 2011
This year, the Student Task Force is campaigning for the Right to Education. As part of this campaign, we are partnering with Gabriel Stauring and Katie-Jay Scott from I-ACT to construct Human Rights Mobile Libraries for Darfuri refugees living in Chad. The libraries will emphasize human rights utilizing e-readers and online technologies to provide resources and curriculum. The first library was established in November 2011, and we aim to launch a second in the spring of 2012.
We invite you to visit the Human Rights Mobile Library blog to view the implementation of the first library and to submit questions and comments directly to Gabriel.
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STF Leaders and International Scholars Train to Protect the Right to Education
September 10, 2011
Student Task Force leaders, teachers and international scholars from the Visiting Fulbright Program convened to launch STF’s 2011-12 school year and new campaign, the Right to Education. Guest speakers included Gabriel Stauring and Katie-Jay Scott of i-Activism, who are partnering with STF students to create a Human Rights Mobile Library that will travel within Darfuri refugee camps in Chad. During the afternoon session, award-winning news anchor Linda Alvarez led a series of “speed pitching” exercises between STF leaders and Fulbright scholars to help students articulate and encourage others to become advocates for the right to education.
“Education is often seen as a matter of life and death in the Darfuri refugee camps,” said Gabriel Stauring. “Specifically, they [the refugees] want to learn English as they believe it is the way to converse with the rest of the world…and many youth risk their lives to go back into Darfur to pursue secondary and higher education.”
Although the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees mandates the right to a basic education for all children in accordance with Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Right, there are over 72 million primary-age children are denied this basic right today. STF’s goal for the 2011-12 school year is to explore and educate others on the barriers that deny children education internationally and locally such as: gender discrimination, poverty and hunger, conflict and war, disabilities, cultural and social divides, and the impact of HIV and AIDS.
One Valencia High School senior summarized her excitement saying she looks forward to another year of STF and the challenge, “to stand up for what is basic, what is human, and what is right.”
The workshop was co-sponsored by UCLA’s International Institute Visiting Fulbright Scholars.
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