Eishin Gakuen’s Human Rights Club: Promoting peace and human rights in local and international communities!
Eishin Gakuen, a junior and senior high school located in Fukuyama City of Hiroshima that was founded over 117 years ago, has a club called the Human Rights Club that engages with issues surrounding human rights and peace. Formed in 2005 through a merger of three clubs that were concerned with human rights issues, the club currently has 24 members, ranging from first-year students (first-year junior high school students) to sixth-year students (third-year senior high school students). The club conducts research on volunteer work, human rights, and peace under the guiding theme of “Hand in hand: Promoting peace and human rights in local and international communities as junior and senior high school students.” We spoke to the members about their club activities and their thoughts on these activities.