U.N. International Day of Peace

21 September

Social Justice

True peace requires standing up for the human rights of all the world’s people. Let us stand up for human rights for all in the name of peace for all.

                                                                                  – UN Secretary General António Guterres

WHAT CAN YOU DO – SOCIAL JUSTICE

– Join an ongoing social justice campaign that has meaning for you…

– Take a few minutes to recognize another persons’s dignity

– Teach your children, students, kids about the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

– Sign the Petition to support the Youth Promise Act – Promise stands for Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support, and Education, and would bring funds into cities that communities would control, to fund proven best practices in prevention and intervention instead of incarceration.

– Watch TED Talk with Bryan Stevenson: “We need to talk about an injustice”

– Learn about/teach about the Sustainable Development Goals, many of which relate to equality and social justice

RESOURCES/ARTICLES

American Friends Service Committee
– Citizens and Social Justice Educator and Parent Resources
Economic Equality
Ending Racism Resources
Ending Mass Incarceration Resources
Inclusion & Equality Resources
Racism Dialogue and Reflection
Reflection: Toward Peace and Justice, 2/15

#BlackLives Matter – Not a Moment But A Movement

Ferguson Action – Non Violent Social Change

Global Oneness Project: Preparing for Peace

Insight on Conflict – Peacebuilding and Peace 

Off the Mat – Into the World – Yoga and Social Justice

Restorative Justice Council – Restorative Justice for people who have been victims of violent crime

The Root – Ferguson is About Social Justice and Democracy

Teaching Tolerance – Social Justice Classroom Resources

Teaching Tolerance – Using Photographs To Teach Social Justice

Yes Magazine – Social Justice and Human Rights Section

Zinn Education Project – Civil Rights Movements

media Peace

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES RE: HUMAN RIGHTS

Amnesty International

Refugees and Child Labor

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

WHYY – Civil Rights and Human Rights

US/INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS/EFFORTS

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) – A Quaker organization that promotes lasting peace with justice, as a practical expression of faith in action.

Enough Project – Seeking to build leverage for peace and justice in Africa by helping to create real consequences for the perpetrators and facilitators of genocide and other mass atrocities.

The Peace Alliance – An alliance of organizers and advocates throughout the United States taking the work of peacebuilding from the margins of society into the centers of national discourse and policy priorities.   – See more at: http://peacealliance.org/who-we-are/mission-vision/#sthash.aj8rEowi.dpuf

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILF) – Furthers, by non-violent means, the social transformation that enables the inauguration of systems under which social and political equality and economic justice for all can be attained to ensure real and lasting peace and true freedom.