Human Rights Baseline Research

Another meaningful milestone for HuRen 🎉

We’re so excited to share that we’ve officially completed the field research phase of our Baseline Human Rights Research Project, in partnership with the Geneva Graduate Institute.

At the heart of this project was a simple but essential objective: to listen.
Through a youth-led study grounded in the human rights–based approach, we gathered data and lived experiences to help shape HuRen's future human rights education programs here in Bermuda. This work ensures that our programming is evidence-based, locally informed, and truly reflective of the realities young people are experiencing.

Our incredible team of Bermuda-based young researchers(Zayne Sinclair, Christopher Jackson, Zarah Siddiqi and Gabriel Smith) working alongside their Geneva counterparts (Isabelle Goodrich, Jessica Baker, Ana Paola Gomez) led interviews and youth focus groups with professionalism and care.

We are deeply grateful for the guidance and mentorship of Claudia Seymour, Head of the Applied Research Program at the Geneva Graduate Institute and HuRen Board member, Tania Tam, Ph.D., Geneva Research Lead; and Mellisa Gibbons Tankard, HuRen Research Lead. Your support empowered our students to conduct rigorous research with confidence.

A heartfelt thank you as well to our institutional partners — the Human Rights Commission Bermuda, Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda, Bermuda Is Love, OUTBermuda, Center against Abuse and the National Youth Policy Working Group — for generously sharing your expertise through key informant interviews. We are also so grateful to the APACE division of Bermuda College for their continued partnership and belief in this work.

Most importantly, we want to acknowledge the young people who joined our focus groups and trusted us with their stories. They brought authenticity to this research.

And finally, to our friends, families, and supporters who rallied behind us — thank you. Human rights education is collective work, and this milestone belongs to all of us