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IMPRESSIONS

LINKS

TOOLS

from the traINING COURSEHUMAN RIGHTS IN SPOTLIGHT

The training course “Human Rights in Spotlight” hosted by non – governmental organization “Konstruktor” from 6. to 15. April 2013 in Struga connected participants from 12 countries (Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Georgia, Armenia, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Czech Republic, Germany, Bulgaria, Poland and hosting country Macedonia) on the platform of human rights education, advocacy for human rights, fighting discrimination, prejudices and ste-reotypes.

The 8 - days training course “Human Rights in Spotlight” was implemented with goal to reach following learning objec-tives: to raise participant’s awareness in the field of human rights, to develop their competencies in advocacy for human rights education at local and national level (to be able to pre-pare and lead campaing tackling various human rights issues and stakeholders), to fight discrimination and contribute to creating more inclusive society by undertaking various ac-tions and sharing lessons learned to the local communities. The project activities (simulations, discussions, work in dif-ferent multicultural teams, field visits, theoretical insights) were based on non-formal education an provided the par-ticipants also an opportunity for develop their communica-tion, leadership, team work, project management skills as well as ability to lead campaign or implemented actions at local or international level with support of Youth in Action Programme. For more information about the training course please check out the project blog: http://ngokonstruktor.word-press.com/.

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Write down your own definition of human rights and think about following questions:

Why teach human rights? Are human rights of all people fully respected? Each human being has responsibility to protect human rights of others? Do you agree or disagree? Can you do anything including using violence against someone to defend your human rights? Yes or No.

The most interesting and useful was the fact that we learned a lot without being taught in a traditional way.

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LInks: Universal Declaration of Human Rights; http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

United Nations - Human Rights; http://www.un.org/en/rights/ Council of Europe - Commissioner for Human Rights; http://www.coe.int/t/commissioner/default_en.asp

Council of Europe - HR Education, Youth Resources http://eycb.coe.int/compass/

The Story of Human Rights; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh3BbLk5UIQ

Universal Declaration of Human Rights; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ2XMRJkyv4

Human Rights Day http://www.ohchr.org/EN/AboutUs/Pages/HumanRightsDay.aspx

Welcome Evening. Getting to Know Each Other.

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ECHR - European Court of Human RIghts

Do you know about this court? Do you know if there was/is any case connected with your country? Check it out...and learn more about the mechanisms of protection of human rights.

Discovering Realities of Participants Countries - Presentation of the case D.H. AND OTHERS v. THE CZECH REPUBLIC ;More about the case: http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng-press/pages/search.aspx?i=003-2176193-2313650#{%22itemid%22:[%22003-2176193-2313650%22]}

If we speak enough we can make a change.

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LInks:

Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/Html/005.htm

Protection Manual for Human Rights Defenders; http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/manuals/protection Human Rights Education Associates (HREA); http://www.hrea.org/index.php?doc_id=97

Human Rights Watch; http://www.hrw.org/

Amnesty International; http://www.amnesty.org/

Series ‘Focus Human Rights’; http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list= PLSOknOL7CeZMOWQVegNFRyigaoGg2RTCQ

Morning Energizer.

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During the training course the partici-pants had an opportunity to take part in discussions, simulations, team challang-es.

One of activities implemented during the training course was ‘Fish Bowl of Con-flict’, the details description of the tool you can find on SALTO website: http://www.salto-youth.net/tools/toolbox/tool/fish-bowl-of-conflict.1362/.

The activity is starting by writing down a story reflecting any situation where conflict appeared. In case of this training course it was a situation when human rights of someone were not respected or when appear confflict between the hu-man rights .

Write down your own story and find an opportunity to discuss it with others.

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TIps:

Fish Bowl of Conflict.

Amnesty International - Conflicting Rights; http://amnesty.org.uk/uploads/documents/doc_17614.pdf

Human Rights Case Studies; http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/advice-and-guidance/equal-rights-equal-respect/useful-informa-tion/human-rights-case-studies/ On Conflict of Human Rights; http://law.unh.edu/assets/images/uploads/publica-tions/pierce-law-review-vol05-no1-xu-wilson.pdf

Understanding Human Rights; http://eycb.coe.int/compass/en/chapter_4/4_1.html

List of Human Rights Issues; http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Pages/ListofIssues.aspx

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The issues of discrimination and social exclusion was also covered by the training course ‘Human Rights in Spotlight’and you can think about following questions: Where you see the roots of the discriminations? What you think are the consequences of discrimination? and How you think that we can fight discrimination, prejudices and stereotypes?

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One of the most interesting thing was non-formal education becuase in my country is very hard to find this kind of traning courses.

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Speak out Against Discrimination; http://www.coe.int/t/DG4/ANTI-DISCRIMINATION-CAM-PAIGN/

No Hate Speech Movement; http://www.nohatespeechmovement.org/ T - Kit 8 Social Inclusion; http://youth-partnership-eu.coe.int/youth-partnership/publications/T-kits/8/Tkit_8_EN

Anti-Discrimination Good Practice Guide;http://www.salto-youth.net/tools/toolbox/tool/anti-dis-crimination-good-practice-guide.356/

Tackling Social Exclusion through Creative Activities; http://www.unitedagainstracism.org/pages/info25.htm

Learning to Trust - Theatre Based Activities.

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To explore the theme of advocacy you can ask following questions:

What are the aims of the advocacy? Who are the targets of advocacy? What’s important when making advocacy in post conflict areas?What is important for planning advocacy? What is important for long term teamwork on advocacy issue?

Learning Each Other Names - Blanket Game.

I learned that we are same and we can’t discriminate others.

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Ten Common Elements of Successful Advocacy Campaigns; http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/41868_6.pdf

Advocacy and campaigning Ian Chandler; http://www.dochas.ie/Shared/Files/4/BOND_Advocacy_Guide.pdf KONY 2012 - case to discuss; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqchttp://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/rightsviews/2012/03/12/mapping-the-kony-2012-controversy-what-does-it-mean-for-human-rights-advocacy/

Adcoacy Campaigns; http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/advocacy-campaigns

The Community Tool Box; http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tablecontents/sub_section_main_1196.aspx

Tools for Advocacy; http://www.socialbrite.org/2012/02/23/the-best-tools-for-advocacy-campaigns/

Advocacy and Campaigning Course Toolkithttp://www.intrac.org/data/files/resources/629/INTRAC-Advocacy-and-Cam-paigning-Toolkit.pdf

Presentation - Who are the targets of advocacy?

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Bring the change to your local community with help of crowdsourcing. How? Develop project idea, transform it in interesting presentation, spread it on-line, get support from the ‘crowd’ and make the change happen.

My perception was that HR are universal and represent the right to live in dignity and to be yourself. This is still my perception but I realize that cultural back round or religion can have influence of how you define this.

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Working on New Project Ideas.

I also realised how diverse EU countries are. There are so many perceptions about people of certain nationalities. I almost thought that these problems did not exist in EU.

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What is Crowdsourcing?; http://dailycrowdsource.com/crowdsourcing-basics/ what-is-crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing - How it can work; http://digisarathi.com/akshara-fights-violence-against-women/

Kickstarter; http://www.kickstarter.com/

Crowdrise; http://www.crowdrise.com/

5 lessons learned from a successful crowdfunding campaign; http://www.fabernovel.com/blog/2012/08/09/5-lessons-learned-from-a-successful-crowdfunding-campaign/

Tips for launching the campaignhttp://www.sponsume.com/blog/7-things-you-need-know-launching-your-crowdfunding-campaign

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One of the session of the training course was also focused on developing the ability to facilitate activity focus on human rights education.

The participants were discussing about dif-ferent elements of facilitation process with goal to improve their skills and competen-cies. And what about you? How you would motivate the group? How would you make sure that your percep-tions and opinions are not influencing the activity?

Getting to Know Each Other - Human Rights Bingo.

I never thought of so many topics which are dealing with HR. I was really suprised how many interesting different topics came up.

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14 Field Visit of organization PORAKA NOVA in Struga.

What is Human Rights Education?; http://www.eycb.coe.int/compasito/chapter_2/1_int.html

Manual for Facilitators in Non-Formal Education; http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/youth/Source/Resources/Publi-cations/2009_Manual_for_facilitators_en.pdf

Facilitation manual: A guide to using participatory meth-odologies for human rights education;http://amnesty.org/en/library/info/ACT35/020/2011/en

Teaching Human Rights; http://www.un.org/wcm/webdav/site/visitors/shared/documents/pdfs/Pub_United%20Nations_ABC_human%20rights.pdf

Human Rights Resource Centre;http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/edumat/activities.shtm

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One of the session of the training course was also focused on developing the ability to facilitate activity focus on

The training course ‘Human Rights in Spotlight’ was implemented with support of Youth in Action Programme of the European Union. If you would like to develop your idea into action just do it. More information about Youth in Action Programme you can find on the website of the Education, Audiovi-sual and Culture Agency Executive Agency (EACEA) or check out website of your National Agency (NA) in case that you are coming from Programme Country.

Every human being should enjoy all the given rights and have the freedom to express/act according to his feelings.

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I really felt the meaning of the sentence: “We are all born free and equal”!

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LInks:

Making a Video: Do not Label Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XA7RME58j4w.

Website of EACEA; http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/youth/index_en.php

Website of SALTO - YOUTH; http://www.salto-youth.net/about/

Facebook Groups Connected with YiA Programme;

Exchanges networkEuropean-Youth-ExchangesDo Great Things Network & Friends All Over The WorldGlobal Cooperation Union For International ProjectsNFE cooperation tankMalta Spirit In ActionMacedonian Youth PortalFoundaction

European Voluntary Service (EVS); http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm

HUMAN RIGHTS IN SPOTLIGHT

Team of TraINING COURSE