Global Human Rights

I could not agree more with the foundations of this article.  It was especially interesting to read about this case study on a New Jersey high school since I also attended high school in New Jersey, and our curriculum far from covered global human rights issues.  If we learned about human rights issues, it was brief and mostly included national issues, not global.  The only topic we did cover in depth was the Holocaust.  We barely learned about global issues in general and only briefly touched upon anything related to other countries outside of the United States unless topics related to U.S. history (like WWI and II).  My high school curriculum could have been greatly expanded to include not only global human rights issues but also information on global culture and history in general.  It was not until I came to Emory that I really became exposed to global issues - and trying to look at these issues through and non-U.S. perspective.