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With the right information and workable tools, we can change the state of human rights, starting in our own neighborhoods, and reaching out more and more to join in international campaigns that are making progress on pressing human rights issues.

When 19-year-old Taron Lexton created UNITED, an emotionally charged human rights hip-hop music video, he never expected that 4 million people would be watching it in movie theaters throughout Hungary in 2006. This is exactly what will happen.

The first Human Rights Sign-a-Thon weekend, a grass-roots activity to get thousands of citizens signing onto a petition to raise awareness and teach human rights, was a huge success. Teaming up with like-minded groups and organizations around the world , Youth for Human Rights International obtained signatures for its petition to make human rights education a mandatory part of every child’s upbringing. In Copenhagen, Denmark, a 35-square-meter screen promoted the Sign-a-Thon in the main city square, while 200 volunteers collected 10,000 signatures.

At first glance, there are hardly two towns in the world that have less in common than Watts, California and Padova, Italy.

Watts is a classic American inner-city area. While community leaders are determined to create a cultural renaissance in Watts, media all too often stereotype the city by focusing on racial tension and gang violence between its Hispanic and African-American populations.

A ceremony to honor four national winners of the first Human Rights Heroes Award drew a standing room only crowd—from legislators to human rights and religious leaders and teenager advocates—at the Rayburn Congressional Building on Capitol Hill on the night of May 23, 2006.