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The Human Rights Summer Institute The Human Rights Summer Institute (HRSI) is an intensive scholarship program for high school students in New York City. The purpose of the program is to provide a forum for young leaders to explore local and global human rights issues. Through out the program we utilize a range of concepts and methodologies relevant to the realization of universal human rights as expressed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Rights articulated in the UDHR provide reference to the overall goals the HRSI: increasing knowledge, skills and attitude based on valuing human dignity. Objectives:
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The Human Rights Summer Institute 2006 class was made up of fourteen students (six males, 8 females) from diverse racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Twelve of the students were from public schools and two were from private schools. Our group was diverse in ethnicity, geographic locations and life experiences. They came to ICTE from all five different boroughs.
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Available to Download: HRSI Flyer and Application
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In 2005 the Third Millennium Foundation piloted the Children's Rights Summer Institute with 15 high school students representing high schools in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx and New Jersey and 3 college-age mentors. Students were exposed to a broad range of human rights issues, focusing on the vulnerability of children in human rights conflicts. The multidisciplinary curriculum included interactive games, films, artwork, creative writing, theater, research, guest workshops conducted by representatives of organizations such as: The International Rescue Committee, the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN), and DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving), and Res Publica. Students elected to focus their campaign to advance human rights on the Genocide in Darfur, Sudan. They held an event at the International Center for Tolerance Education for over 80 people to raise awareness about the Genocide and to raise funds for Doctors Without Borders' work in Sudan. The crux of their campaign was an independently published 'zine with their own artwork and writing in response to the Genocide.
During the first two weeks of the program participants were given an introductory, multidisciplinary education in the history and philosophy of the global human rights movement through guest lectures, workshops, assignments and exposure to different media such as art, film and poetry. During these first few weeks students also explored the root cause of violence and oppression in their life and community through a range of interactive activities. From there, program activities were focused on helping participants make connections between human rights concept and their daily life and personal history. Participants were provided with the critical methodological framework from which to springboard independent projects in the city. Skills developed included critical thinking, discussion and debate, research and creative approach to problem solving and information literacy. Finally, towards the final few weeks of the program, students applied their knowledge by working together as a community toward a project for the advancement of human rights. Throughout the duration of the program students continued to foster critical thinking and perspective-taking using different mediums of information gathering. Students were also trained to connect human rights issues to personal experience and to see how their own individual behavior has the power to influence circumstances so that they can practice living and working in accordance with their vision of an ideal society.