Nancy Flowers discusses her early life interest in human rights and social justice as a prelude to her involvement in human rights activism through Amnesty International (AI). She also addresses the origins of human rights education (HRE) in the USA and its gradual evolution from work done by Amnesty International USA in the late 1980s to the present.  Obstacles to the acceptance and institutionalization of HRE in the USA are discussed and contrasted with the more rapid development of HRE in Latin America, the Philippines, and Europe.  Topics discussed:Development & evolution of HREInvolvement with HRE in the U.S. and globalHRE infrastructureAllies & efforts in the HRE fieldFull topic listing available for download HERE.Introduction and Closing Music Credit: “Awakening-Spring” by Ketsa, from the Album Night Vision. Available at the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/night-vision/awakening-spring/ This music is used in accordance with this Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Information about that license is available here https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Human Rights Education Now! is produced and distributed in accordance with Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International. Information about this license is available here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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