Community

The Center’s Board, staff and volunteers are a collective voice to educate, inspire and influence positive change in human rights. The work is supported in partnership with schools, faith communities, business and other human rights organizations.

Memorial
This world-class educational park is the only Anne Frank Memorial in the USA and one of the only places in the world where the full Universal Declaration of Human Rights is on public display.
Classroom

The Center provides professional development for educators and interdisciplinary programming for students to foster a culture and climate in which diversity is celebrated and human rights are protected.

EVENT: Change Your World Celebration

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial; celebrate the work of the Idaho Human Rights Education Center; celebrate a commitment to human rights.

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Barber Park Event Center, 4049 S. Eckert Road, Boise

Tickets: $65

5:30p No-host Reception catered by Whole Foods, Music by Olsen Quartet

6:45p Mediterranean-themed, family-style, Dinner catered by Chef Joyce Doughty

Program honoring Marilyn Shuler, Idaho’s Human Rights Advocate; Greg C. Carr, entrepreneur and philanthropist; and Idaho’s Human Rights Educator-of-the-Year

8:30p Live Auction

To purchase event tickets and/or bid on the silent auction, go online – http://humanrights.afrogs.org/

For more information, call (208) 345-0304

Director’s Message:

Dr. Dan Prinzing

For two weeks in March, Center staff and volunteers  worked with Idaho and Japanese students and teachers in the final phase of our three-year “International Education Youth Leadership Program and Exchange.”Funded by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, we hosted the 15-member delegation from Ishida High School (Isehara, Japan).

While in Idaho, the delegation of students and teachers met with their peers at Bishop Kelly, Boise, Borah, Centennial, Melba and Orofino High Schools, had a home-stay with an Idaho family, participated in a series of content seminars focusing on human rights, civic learning, and community building, and showcased their content mastery in a formal presentation of community issues / problems with their action plan for influencing policymakers to resolve the issue.

For the Idaho students in the program, Japan is no longer just a country across the Pacific Ocean; it is the home of their friends.  A country and a culture was given a face; what differences that might have existed were overshadowed by the commonalities of the human family. For the students from Japan, Idaho became more than just a place – it became what Clifton Taulbert describes in Eight Habits of the Heart as making a community personal.  “The memories formed from shared experiences, from unselfish acts of kindness, these are the elements of community that I cherish.”

While presenting certificates of program completion at the closing dinner, we had to recognize the importance of life’s “moments” – moments that bring us together in a shared experience, moments that help us to reach out to others who are different, moments that give us hope for a future of peace and understanding.

And yes, there were even moments in a crowded airport when the tears among friends flowed freely.  As one student remarked, “I now see and believe, with all my heart, in a world tolerant of differences, filled with people united in the understanding that we are all human.”

Yes, at that moment, Center staff cried.