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ACROSS THE GLOBE

A GLOBAL CONTEXT: EPISODE 1

ACROSS THE GLOBE

Across the Globe: The Advance of Human Rights in the Digital Age focuses on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which has been agreed-to by almost every country on the planet to assert that certain rights are common to all persons.

"These rights are written on every human heart," explains our guest, Matthew Daniels, JD, PhD, a leading international human-rights advocate who promotes the use of digital media as a means of advancing human rights and freedoms - including those of children - around the globe. 


Don't just see the suffering. You may be tempted to look away. Instead, learn how technology and storytelling combine to be The Great Disruptor in global human-rights violations.

FULL MODULE GOAL & OBJECTIVE

A GLOBAL CONTEXT

Across the Globe: The Advance of Human Rights in the Digital Age is the first of three broadcast episodes in the theme of A GLOBAL CONTEXT, as we place the failures, challenges, and progress in the U.S. Catholic Church in a global historical and contemporary context where the dignity and safety of children and vulnerable adults was and remains a dominant factor in the human experience.

Objective

Gain working knowledge of global issues, obstacles, and approaches in promoting child safety in the Universal Church

PCEs

Three Episodes

1: Across the Globe: The Advance of Human Rights in the Digital Age
2: Safeguarding in the Church Universal
3: A Brief History of Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church

TODAY'S EPISODE

EPISODE 1: ACROSS THE GLOBE

Matthew Daniels, JD, PhD

ACROSS THE GLOBE

The Advance of Human Rights in the Digital Age

The Human Rights Network

 Matt Daniels is Founder/Creative Director of The Human Rights Network, advancing universal rights through digital media.

1:30 Min Video

Human Rights 2.0

Daniels's first book compiled inspiring stories of individuals - adults and youth - who improved the world using digital media.

1 Min Video

OUR GUEST

BIOGRAPHY

Matthew Daniels, JD, PhD

Matthew Daniels, JD, PhD, was raised by a single mother, who was disabled by violent crime, in a  section of Spanish Harlem with the highest rate of violent crime in New  York City. After attending inner-city public schools in New York City, Daniels  received a full scholarship to Dartmouth College where he graduated Phi  Beta Kappa in 1985.  He later received a Public Interest Law Scholarship  to the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he obtained both  his law degree and a Master’s in Public Administration. He was  subsequently awarded a doctoral fellowship in American Politics to study  judicial policy-making and the rule of law at Brandeis University.


Daniels is the Chair of Law & Human Rights and Founder of the Center for Human Rights and International Affairs at the Institute of World Politics, where he teaches a  course on Human Rights and Counter-Radicalization.


Daniels is the Founder & Co-Director of the Center for Law and Digital Culture at Brunel Law School in London, England, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Handong International Law School in Pohang, South Korea. He has served as an affiliate faculty member at the George Mason University School of Business in Washington, DC, where he developed a course on the protection of  human rights online together with a team of faculty from GMU Law School  and the GMU School of Business.

Full Bio

DIGITAL IMPACT

FROM THE HUMAN RIGHTS NETWORK

Totalitarian Regimes

The Human Rights Network uses popular culture to examine human rights violations in movie and gaming reviews.

Censorship

The Human Rights Network details how Hollywood edits its films to change its plots to accommodate Chinese censors.

Womens/ Rights

The Human Rights Network profiles compelling stories, e.g., a Pakistani woman who survived an attempted "honor" killing.

Political Oppression

The Human Rights Network relates a heroic story of men and women facing political oppression in Saudi Arabia. (Click to view.)

ADDITIONAL DIGITAL INITIATIVES

Concentration Camp Survivors

MLK Universal Rights Scholarships

MLK Universal Rights Scholarships

Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea), working with Daniels and The Human Rights Network, documented the prior untold stories of survivors of concentration camps in North Korea. Subsequent research  verified the impact of videos in "knowledge and interest  in human rights increased immediately after viewing...." 

Summary & Videos

MLK Universal Rights Scholarships

MLK Universal Rights Scholarships

MLK Universal Rights Scholarships

In the United States, the Martin Luther King, Jr., Universal Rights Scholarship, which was established by Daniels working with the MLK Foundation, awards students of historically black colleges.

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Games for Good

MLK Educational Initiative

MLK Educational Initiative

Daniels is a founding member of Games for Good, which partners "with studios and their talented teams to modify games we  love with story lines that educate." Its first video, Grand Theft  Democracy, focused on Russian disinformation. 

1 Min Video

MLK Educational Initiative

MLK Educational Initiative

MLK Educational Initiative

The MLK Educational Initiative is a secondary school curricula that teaches Dr. King's "non-violent social justice principles to a new generation." It is being adopted by state-level educational boards around the United States. Does your school board know it exists? 

Related Article

YOUR TURN

Your Assignment

Questions for discussions with others and for your personal journal. 

Question 1: Universal or Regional?

You run the UN and have responsibility for implementing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights across the globe. You are meeting today with leaders of a country who do not permit their citizens to worship in any but one single religion. Any person who refuses is imprisoned and executed. You must persuade these leaders that universal rights apply to their population, but they remind you of a colonial history during which Westerners oppressed their country and suppressed their current worship practices as barbaric. How do you explain that this effort is not imperialism? Using principles of the UDHR, what's your best argument? If they refuse, what's your next step?

Question 2: Do They Exist?

Please view Human Rights 2.0 (1-minute video, above). It's  a quick take on Daniels's book of stories of young and old "digital Samaritans?" Are there ways you have been - or a friend has been - a digital Samaritan? What was involved? Was any cost incurred? What has been the impact?

Question 3: Digital Saint?

Who is a saint or Christian author who would have, in your opinion found social media especially helpful in their life's work? Is there a saint or Christian author who is probably better off never having had the option of social media?

Question 4: Why Not?

This broadcast is for you to follow and learn - and heal from the impact of clergy abuse in our Church on your life. It is also for your family and friends to follow and discuss. It's set up in modules so you can do so in convenient timing for your own lives. Not near each other? Is your parish better served with small discussions online, rather than evening gatherings at the center or church? Here are some of our favorite ways to connect online for faith discussions. Why not start your own online discussion group?

Connect!

OPTIONAL

Optional Action Items

Pick One or More, Improve Your World Today

  1. Share this page, with the message of hope and empowerment, with a friend, colleague, or educator.
  2. Share this page or one of The Human Rights Networks videos on your social media feed(s).
  3. Nominate a Digital Samaritan you know (including yourself) (above, right). 
  4. What is a local community problem that is top of mind for you? Find local effort underway to address the problem and promote it digitally; e.g., share it with your address book and/or on your social media feed; call a friend and ask them to let others know about the effort; and/or check out your neighborhood on Next Door where you can post the effort so neighbors know they can help too!

Nomination

Nominate any Digital Samaritan who has used technology to help improve their world. We'll include them in the January 2021 Safety Hackathon Gallery! 

Easy Nomination Form

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