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Watch our 10th Anniversary Video!
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Who
We Are
The Student Task Force (STF), launched in 1999, is
fundamentally about students advocating for children's
rights. It is a youth
leadership-training program that brings together high
school students from all over Los Angeles and empowers
them to advocate for human
rights issues that concern the rights of children.
Human Rights Watch volunteers and STF teachers work in partnership
to mentor students in leadership skills and activism, fostering
confidence and maturity among students and enabling them to become
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Our Mission
Children continue to be denied basic human rights in all parts
of the world. The Human Rights Watch Student Task Force is dedicated
to promoting human rights for all children by raising awareness
in our schools and communities, and providing strategic advocacy
support for the Children's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch.
What We Do
The STF works to support the Children's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch through
advocacy projects. Based in New York, the CRD monitors
human rights abuses against children around
the world and campaigns to end them. Examples of Student
Task Force projects include leadership training workshops,
planning advocacy campaigns, meeting with elected representatives
and with human rights activists from around the world,
documentary film screenings and other public education
events.
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The Facts
250 million children are involved in child labor,sexual exploitation
and trafficking
125 million children are not in school
25 million children have been uprooted by armed conflict
10 million children a year die from malnutrition and preventable
diseases
2 million children have died in ten years because of war
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Alicia
Ramirez (Manual Arts High School),
Los Angeles
How To Get Involved
To learn more about the Student Task Force and how
to get involved, please
email
us.
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