Description
„Youth Voice, Here and Now!” tackles young people’s need to be invested both with the capacity and motivation to get themselves organized and involved in generating positive change on issues related to human rights, specifically no hate speech, youth being considered a vulnerable group that could belong to any discriminated category. Consequently, it aims at developing youth’s capacity and motivation to get organized in order to influence the schools’ policies and to have them as spaces that are not tolerating the hate speech or human rights’ violations. The aim is being invested with specific activities that offer youth the opportunity to research, to identify and to mobilize human, financial and logistical resources in order to develop their own campaigns on awareness rising on no hate speech policies, as well as on the changes that are aiming to generate. For this purpose, youth will be mobilizing their teachers, their communities’ members and nonprofit as allies in combating hate speech online.
Summary of project results
„Youth Voice, Here and Now!” tackled young people’s need to be invested both with the capacity and motivation to get themselves organized and involved in generating positive change on issues related to human rights, specifically against hate speech. The project aimed at developing youth’s capacity and motivation to get organised in order to influence schools’ policies and to transform them into spaces that are not tolerating hate speech or human rights’ violations. A series of specific activities offered youth the opportunity to research, to identify and to mobilize human, financial and logistical resources in order to develop their own awareness rising campaigns tackling hate speech policies as well as on the changes that they are aiming to generate. 5 initiative groups were created / developed in 5 high-schools from Bucharest, over 45 high-school students were trained on human rights education, community organising, partnership building, advocacy and campaigning and through the 9 campaigns implemented (8 offline and one online), they managed to get the support of over 4000 community members in combating hate speech in schools. The online campaigns were developed on the website
http://pandaa.ro/ or on the Facebook pages of each initiative group. All the activities had been implemented on a partnership basis with the 5 high-schools and also benefitted of the support of other 10 nongovernmental organizations. In the same time, the community facilitators’ team was enlarged by recruiting new members for whom training sessions in community organising were held.
Summary of bilateral results