Events

CHRP hosted its annual community summit on June 1st 2019. The 2019 theme was "Children Are the Future of Human Rights." This year's focus was to bring youth voices, including high school students and young leaders to the table with adult educators, activists and scholars. The goal of this summit was to collaborate and collectively workshop actionable steps to promote and protect children's rights in our CT communities. The summit was a great success; youth and adult participants walked away with new knowledge and tangible plans/ideas on how to elevate children's rights in their own spaces of work.

The Auer Farm Compact Gathering brought numerous stakeholders from across CT together to design an outline and framework that sought to guide human rights related community action. The gathering and design sessions aimed to pay homage to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by focusing on the intersected nature of human rights and prioritized responding to the explicitly stated needs of the community. The gathering, taking place around International Human Rights Day in December 2018, was a strategic moment in CHRP's mission, and an important milestone in setting forth our collective vision to advance human rights education and advocacy in Connecticut.

On September 8, 2018 on the steps of the State Capitol, the Connecticut Human Rights Partnership and our cosponsors and allies hosted the #StandUp4HumanRights CT, a rally to celebrate the 70th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Speakers from across Connecticut shared perspectives on how human rights are being advanced in our communities and outlined the work still to be done. This was a powerful event where allies from across CT came together to reaffirm our commitment to building a culture of human rights here in Connecticut.