BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//www.bym-rsf.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:372e070e-6619-4ee6-af87-65ad2133ac79 X-WR-CALDESC:Jean-Louis Peta Ikambana of the American Friends Service Commi ttee DC Office will be speaking in the Community House at 12:30. This talk will be part of the Centennial celebration of AFSC’s establishment. Bann ers describing the AFSC’s work of the 100 years will be on display. As we celebrate AFSC’s Centennial commitment to opposing injustice and promoting peace with justice\, we invite you to come learn about its work in Washin gton DC. In 2008\, at the urging of the AFSC-DC\, the District of Columbia was declared a Human Rights City by a City Council Resolution (CER 17-461 )\, the first in the United States. A Human Rights City is a city where hu man rights (enumerated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) are l earned\, known and respected\, consistently. Laws and policies undergo cit izen review\, and are found to be in conformity with the Universal Declara tion of Human Rights. Public budgets are reviewed by citizens and fully su pport sustainable programs that ensure citizen’s full realization of their humanity. Children are taught and practice human rights as part of their school curricula. All citizens are both aware of and conversant with human rights\; able and willing to stand up to protect human rights for themsel ves and each other ( Shula Koenig\, Founder of People Decade for Human Rig hts Learning (PDHR\, www.pdhre.org). AFSC-DC has partnered with DCPS since 2008 to expand human rights learning to our young leaders. Since\, DC you ths have been using human rights as a framework examine and address social justice issues. In 2016\, to celebrate the 67th anniversary of the UDHR\, our young leaders wanted to look at progress made by the Human Rights Ci ty: Do they view their City as a Human rights City? This group of young pe ople from different neighborhood embarked in a fact-finding project that a llowed them to critically look at how D.C. is living up or not to the idea l of a Human Rights City. They presented their finding to City officials u rging them to take action for social change. X-WR-RELCALID:49dffd129b7c61869a6b5df41608262e X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20171105T020000 RDATE:20181104T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20180311T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:e6ebf5f3-0f17-47be-af5b-cce4b345e9fb DTSTAMP:20260405T185036Z DESCRIPTION:Jean-Louis Peta Ikambana of the American Friends Service Commit tee DC Office will be speaking in the Community House at 12:30. This talk will be part of the Centennial celebration of AFSC’s establishment. Banne rs describing the AFSC’s work of the 100 years will be on display. As we c elebrate AFSC’s Centennial commitment to opposing injustice and promoting peace with justice\, we invite you to come learn about its work in Washing ton DC. In 2008\, at the urging of the AFSC-DC\, the District of Columbia was declared a Human Rights City by a City Council Resolution (CER 17-461) \, the first in the United States. A Human Rights City is a city where hum an rights (enumerated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) are le arned\, known and respected\, consistently. Laws and policies undergo citi zen review\, and are found to be in conformity with the Universal Declarat ion of Human Rights. Public budgets are reviewed by citizens and fully sup port sustainable programs that ensure citizen’s full realization of their humanity. Children are taught and practice human rights as part of their s chool curricula. All citizens are both aware of and conversant with human rights\; able and willing to stand up to protect human rights for themselv es and each other ( Shula Koenig\, Founder of People Decade for Human Righ ts Learning (PDHR\, www.pdhre.org). AFSC-DC has partnered with DCPS since 2008 to expand human rights learning to our young leaders. Since\, DC yout hs have been using human rights as a framework examine and address social justice issues. In 2016\, to celebrate the 67th anniversary of the UDHR\, our young leaders wanted to look at progress made by the Human Rights Cit y: Do they view their City as a Human rights City? This group of young peo ple from different neighborhood embarked in a fact-finding project that al lowed them to critically look at how D.C. is living up or not to the ideal of a Human Rights City. They presented their finding to City officials ur ging them to take action for social change. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170521T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170521T143000 LOCATION:Sandy Spring Friends Meeting (Sandy Spring\, MD) SUMMARY:Promoting Social Justice Through Human Rights Learning in the Natio n’s Capital END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR