Recent STF Events
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Step Three: Building Allies
Relationships can be powerful drivers of change. Engaging students, teachers, and parents helps create a campus with shared responsibility and action…
Step Two: Speaking with Administrators
Now that you’ve read through the SBRR Action Handbook, it’s time to meet with administrators who can help you draft and implement your SBRR, such as your principal, a counselor or dean of discipline. We wanted to share some important tips and questions to keep in mind when organizing these meetings…
Taking First Steps
As you begin meeting with administrators and reaching out to potential allies on campus, we encourage you to check out the Student Bill of Responsibilities and Rights (SBRR) Action Handbook…
Develop Your Student Bill of Responsibilities and Rights
This year, STF Chapters are working with administrators, teachers, students and parents to develop a Student Bill of Responsibilities and Rights (SBRR) that will help their schools become more human rights friendly…
An Advocate’s Toolkit
September 6, 2025: “If you take meaningful action for things you care about most, it all adds up, and collectively, we can make a difference,” said Jo Becker, Human Rights Watch’s Children’s Rights Division Advocacy Director, kicking off the 2025 STF Fall Leadership Workshop…
A Child’s Right to Free Education
This spring, more than 8,100 young people around the world, including students from seven STF Chapters, responded to a request to share why they think young people should have a right to free pre-primary and free secondary education. The OHCHR released a summary of the responses received…
Stepping Up for Human Rights
May 20-June 3, 2025: As the academic year comes to a close, the newest STFers at International School of Prague, Spring Lake Park, and Wauwatosa East high schools created powerful displays to raise awareness about genocide and collected petition signatures to uphold the rights of the unhoused…
This Is Our Moment
June 3, 2025: “We should not underestimate the gravity of this moment. On the contrary. With authoritarianism on the rise, the progress we made over decades to secure fundamental rights for all human beings is under threat. And we must fight back. This is our moment…”
STF Leader Spotlight: Annalysa S.
Please meet Annalysa S., Vice President at Hamilton HS. She joined just over a year ago and has already made a major impact at her school. Continue reading to learn how Annalysa is inspiring others through her commitment to human rights…
Turning Empathy into Action
March 31 – April 29, 2025: In the final weeks of on-campus advocacy, STFers from Canyon, Carson, Da Vinci, Hamilton, Palisades Charter, and Wauwatosa East high schools have been busy hosting events advocating for STF’s Protect the Unhoused and Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month Action Plans…
Stronger Together
April 10, 2024: For the first time ever, STFers participated in this year’s Chicago Voices for Justice dinner, coming together in solidarity to learn how HRW and its supporters are actively protecting human rights and defending democracy in the U.S. and beyond…
From Classrooms to Communities
March 21 – April 2, 2025: STFers from Carson and Van Nuys HS combined education, creativity, and action to deepen their community’s understanding of human rights issues…