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The project aims to increase the level of human rights protection in Estonia and to advance and disseminate the principle of equal treatment through wide and network-based strategic advocacy that includes the grassroots level. In the course of the project, Estonia’s main civil society organisations engage in human rights and equal treatment advocacy and receive new knowledge and skills to work with international and European human rights protection mechanisms using the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process as an example. They also receive knowledge and skills to better communicate rights, to include grassroot level advocacy, and develop aspects of human rights and equal treatment. The main activities include gathering local level inputs and drafting the civil society shadow report for the UPR third cycle review of Estonia, due to take place early 2021. Other related advocacy activities include training of trainers based on updated handbook of the Equal Treatment Act. Participation in project activities contributes to increased capacity of project participants and new people involved in human rights protection on local levels. The project is carried out in partnership with CSOs that belong to the Equal Treatment Network (Estonian Chamber of Persons with Disabilities, Estonian LGBT Association, Estonian Youth Council, Estonian Vegan Association, NGO Oma Tuba/Feministeerium and Estonian Union for Child Welfare) and Icelandic Human Rights Centre, which helps with the UPR process.