Recent STF Events
Click to check out our student spotlights, learn about recent on-campus actions and see invitations to upcoming STF-wide events.
Countdown to Human Rights Day: Join STF’s Week of Action!
November 18, 2025: To kick off STF events honoring Human Rights Day (December 10), Francis W. Parker School hosted a human rights trivia recruitment event. STFers asked participants trivia questions for a chance to win a prize…
Taking the Temperature: A Human Rights Survey
STFers are collecting feedback from their allies about on-campus issues that matter the most to them. As your Chapter reviews the Taking the Human Rights Temperature survey, consider the following questions…
STFers Meet with Administrators
STFers from Animo Venice Charter, Corona Del Mar, Hamilton, International School of Prague, and Palisades Charter high schools are collaborating with school administrators to draft their Student Bill of Responsibilities and Rights to help their campuses become more human rights friendly…
STF Alumni Spotlight: Leela C.
Please meet STF Alumna Leela C., who first discovered STF while searching for meaningful avenues to engage with human rights and social justice work…
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…”