Youth for Human Rights World Tour 2009 proved to be a feast of variety and adventure as YHRI President Mary Shuttleworth, Ed.D., visited countries large and small, made new friends and spread her message of peace and tolerance around the world.

We started out...

Many on the island of Barbados already recognize the work of Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) as a result of seeing YHRI’s public service announcements played on national television. The YHRI Barbados chapter now represents the eighty-fourth country to...

In honor of the 60th Anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) is again circling the globe, now on its sixth annual World Tour. This year’s team, including Dr. Mary Shuttleworth, President and Founder...

Where, after all, do Universal Rights begin?

"In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the...

The year 2008 marks the fifth World Tour for Mary Shuttleworth, President of Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI). She traveled more than 37,000 miles to the Caribbean and then through Africa and Asia—returning to her starting point in Los Angeles this summer.