The National Council for the Social Studies affirms the importance of teaching and learning about human rights "from early childhood through advanced education and lifelong learning." Today, as the challenges to human rights and democracy have proliferated across the globe and domestically, NCSS renews and expands that commitment, highlighting the need for education not only "about" human rights, but "through" human rights and "for" human rights. To equip educators and students to meet these responsibilities and to fulfill the promise of human rights, the National Council for the Social Studies calls for a comprehensive commitment and a coordinated plan of action to (1) recognize the importance of human rights education; (2) integrate human rights education into social studies curricula, schoolwide policies, and classroom practices; (3) develop impactful human rights educators; (4) foster youth engagement and voice; and (5) infuse human rights education into local, state, and national policies.