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Winter 2022 Newsletter 1.3

Emma Tolliver, Editor and Director of Research UC Davis Backpack Guide Collective

In 2010, FIFA voted that Qatar would be the host for the 2022 World Cup, the biggest sporting event in the world. Qatar lacked the proper infrastructure to host an event of this magnitude, which, compounded with the fact that the tournament would have to be played during the winter due to Qatar’s extremely hot temperatures, made this decision strange for many. Amid claims of corruption and bribing by FIFA officials, the Qatari government was given green light to start preparations for the event. 

This year’s O’Brien Prize for Individual Achievement in Human Rights Education went to Professor Susan Katz of University of San Francisco School of Education for her work creating the West Coast’s leading Human Rights Education graduate program, and graduates from her program have worked with us here at UC Davis and with great success.&nbs

The University of California, Davis Human Rights Studies Program recognizes that University of California graduate students, researchers, student employees and postdocs have engaged in efforts to secure fair wages, benefits and working conditions.  Considering these efforts, we express our support for our fellow academic workers and call on the UC to bargain in good faith and hope a just and fair agreement can be achieved quickly.   

We also reaffirm our support for Article 23:3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

On a warm Fall afternoon in 1915 in Syria, a Protestant missionary lifted a five-year-old Armenian boy, Karnig Panian (1910-1989), onto a train headed to Beirut. From there he was taken to a small village called Antoura, where a boarding school had been established to transform Armenian and Kurdish children into Turks. Panian’s family had been murdered over the previous months as part of the World War One-era genocide of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire.

The UC Davis Human Rights Studies Program stands in solidarity with the people of Iran as many have taken to streets in protest of the death in custody of a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman, Zhina Mahsa Amini. She was arrested and beaten by members of Iran’s Gašt-e Eršād or Guidance Patrol, more commonly called, the “morality police” for allegedly wearing her hijab — a legally required headscarf — improperly.

Today is the 56th anniversary of the premier of Star Trek.  Unique among Human Rights Studies programs globally, at UC Davis we emphasize the role of literature, the arts, music and film and television in human rights thought, practice and advocacy.

UC Davis Human Rights Studies stands in solidarity with the Davis Jewish community in the face of a recent hate incident and ugly episode of Holocaust denial. We are committed to a campus where all are welcomed and safe and where civil discourse based on facts and evidence are practiced widely and truth matters. 

Backpacker, Go!

Summer 2022 Newsletter 1.2

Emma Tolliver, Editor
UC Davis Backpack Guide Collective

Spring 2022 Newsletter 

Welcome to Article 26 Backpack’s first newsletter! 

Produced by the Article 26 Backpack team at the University of California, Davis, the Article 26 Quarterly Newsletter provides resources, news, and relevant information to Backpackers to support them in protecting their human right to education. This quarter, we have information regarding our newly created Ukrainian and Russian versions of Article 26 Backpack, as well as free language exam and academic credentialing resources.