This timely volume carries such vital messages as “every voice matters” and “peaceful ends through peaceful means. Verdict: Bold graphics incorporate people of ethnic, class, and age diversity who work together toward a common end, and the letter “V” stresses voting, which may encourage parents to get involved. Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights Hardcover Picture Book, Septemby Rob Sanders (Author), Jared Andrew Schorr (Illustrator) 256 ratings Teachers' pick See all formats and editions Kindle 10.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 13.39 44 Used from 1.50 33 New from 8.95 2 Collectible from 14. Alphabetically organized suggestions amidst the collage illustrations go from “assemble” to “be zealous.” An end note, “Peaceful Protests,” gives a brief history of non-violent protests during the 1950s and 1960s, and a glossary finishes the book. In a land where children no longer have the satisfaction of knowing that adults will protect their future, Sanders gives a minimalist explanation view of what young people can do to make their lives better in the time ahead, suitable for the youngest readers. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.Sanders, Rob. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Yet they are the world of the individual person the neighborhood he lives in the school or college he attends the factory, farm or ofﬁce where he works.

In 1948, she wrote, “Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. First Lady of the United States of America Eleanor Roosevelt was a major contributor to the development of the ﬁnal draft of the UDHR. ESP is grateful for Rotarians for Peace in Wilmington, Ohio, for being the first to distribute pocketbooks to first year students participating in the Westheimer Peace Symposium, Wilmington College, and East Clinton High School 9th graders. ESP invites its colleagues in the UNGC, as well as civil society organizations like Rotary and Lions, to partner with its Human Rights Pocketbook Venture to distribute a personal copy of the pocketbook with every 9th grader and incoming college freshman every year. The Human Rights Pocketbook Venture is a positive peace initiative of the Empathy Surplus Project (ESP), a UN Global Compact (UNGC) participant since 2014.

(Pocket size paper pamphlet) 9781642551532 Link to contents - The Human Rights Pocketbook Venture The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), in its 2019 Global Peace Index, which ranks nation states in order of their peacefulness, ranks the United States of America in the bottom quarter of peaceful nation states.

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