United Nations Day 2018
"Human Rights Close to Home"
Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
468 Rosedale Avenue, White Plains, NY 10605
UNA-Westchester's UN Day celebration featured a media launch and activation of UDHR Now, a program to engage students and teachers, focusing on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on the 70th anniversary of this historic document. We invited school districts in Westchester County to engage with us in this process.
The UN Day event highlighted human rights activist and keynote speaker Kathy Eldon (See bio HERE),
UN-recognized youth envoy, and a panel of educators involved in the ‘Rock Your World’ program. School superintendents, teachers and students were invited to attend, as well as UNA-Westchester members and local political leaders.
The UDHR Now challenges students to:
The UNA-USA Westchester Chapter partnered with
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.,
Creative Visions,
Westchester County (NY) Chapter of the Links, Inc.,
Town of Greenburgh,
Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation,
Rock Your World.
Participants engaged in expressing their views on human rights issues and enjoyed a generous networking reception following the presentations.
Read the UDHR Now!
Or, the Summary of the full UDHR Here
"Human Rights Close to Home"
Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
468 Rosedale Avenue, White Plains, NY 10605
UNA-Westchester's UN Day celebration featured a media launch and activation of UDHR Now, a program to engage students and teachers, focusing on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on the 70th anniversary of this historic document. We invited school districts in Westchester County to engage with us in this process.
The UN Day event highlighted human rights activist and keynote speaker Kathy Eldon (See bio HERE),
UN-recognized youth envoy, and a panel of educators involved in the ‘Rock Your World’ program. School superintendents, teachers and students were invited to attend, as well as UNA-Westchester members and local political leaders.
The UDHR Now challenges students to:
- Read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
- Express their responses to the UDHR in creative ways, using multimedia, the arts, music, poetry, film—anything that inspires them.
- Possibly start a campaign based on real world issues related to any aspect of the UDHR’s 30 articles!
The UNA-USA Westchester Chapter partnered with
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.,
Creative Visions,
Westchester County (NY) Chapter of the Links, Inc.,
Town of Greenburgh,
Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation,
Rock Your World.
Participants engaged in expressing their views on human rights issues and enjoyed a generous networking reception following the presentations.
Read the UDHR Now!
Or, the Summary of the full UDHR Here