The Lambert Human Rights Club is a club that focuses on the importance of human rights in the modern world. It’s a relatively small and lesser known club, but is growing with people uniting under the same goal, which is to be educated about modern conflicts and eventually taking action through connection and teamwork.
This club tries its hardest to be accepting of everyone. It is very diverse and welcoming, with the ultimate goal of making sure members know that they are not alone in wanting to know more about human rights. Senior Rebbeca Chen joined in her freshman year, and since then she has grown to love the encouragement and judgement-free environment.
“At the time, I was in a tough spot in my life, and the club is meant to be a welcoming space where everyone can share their thoughts and things like that,” Chen said.
This unified and encouraging attitude is just what the club needs to spread their knowledge throughout Lambert. They do activities such as marches, presentations and campaigns, with one of these movements, a walkout against gun violence, getting featured in the local press. The club tackles many relevant subjects, including but not limited to the government shutdown and its impacts on American citizens, equality between genders and marriage equality. It also gives tips on how to combat these issues by speaking out and staying in the know.
“It’s a free space to just talk about what’s been going on in the world, making our comments and just being aware of everything,” sophomore Norah Reily said. “I joined the club to become more aware of what’s going on in the world and to be educated about stuff going on.”
Reily recounted that her favorite part of being in the club is “just the connections I made. It’s a small club right now, so just the connections with everybody and people that know more stuff about human rights than I do, so I like being educated from them and what they’ve heard.”
Being educated about human rights is very important, especially in high school when it comes so close to impacting these students’ lives. Luckily, here at Lambert, clubs like the Human Rights Club are here to make sure that students are prepared and are no longer kept in the dark.
