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ART 4 Human Rights

2019-3-BG01-KA105-0777442019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: BG|RO|IT|TR|ES · Grant: €16,558.31
Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)Home and justice affairs (human rights & rule of law)Migrants' issues

Objectives

In the recent years in Europe, in the context of the refugee crisis, there has been a great increase in extremist right-wing movements and parties, political populism, violence, increased use of hate speech and increased levels of hate crime, media and political propaganda, fake news, increased cases of discrimination. All this directly affects European values and the future of Europe. Young people are too vulnerable in this environment and easily manipulated by political formations and any other extremist groups promoting violence, hatred and intolerance. In this climate of lack of solidarity and intolerance towards refugees and migrants, the chances of successful integration of refugees are reduced, which poses a threat to security in the EU. The young people with whom we and our partners work are quite often having poor media literacy awareness and skills, are easily misled by propaganda, lack critical thinking, and are unaware of the implications of using hate speech. During the exchange, young people will have the opportunity to discuss key concepts such as freedom, justice, equality, human dignity, non-discrimination, democracy, tolerance, European values, rights, responsibilities, media and fake news, hate speech, hate crimes , extremism, violence, peace and solidarity. In addition, the project is needed for another very important reason - sometimes when young people are driven by the desire to fight hatred, they actually respond with hatred and so it becomes a closed circle. This is the reason why we believe that young people need to learn rather peaceful ways to resist hate than to create new ones. The main objectives of the project ART 4 HR are: - To help young people understand the the issue of hate speech and hate crimes, to realize the possible consequences for the communities and Europe in general - Promoting positive attitudes and acceptance and understanding for refugees and migrants - to inform participants of ways to combat hate speech in a peaceful ways and to provide ways and channels for reporting hate speech online - promoting media literacy, analytical and critical thinking - to become acquainted with the NO hate speech movement of Council of Europe - to present art and, in particular, graffiti and storytelling as an effective and peaceful ways to combat hate speech - Stimulate the active position and engagement of young people by encouraging them to be active in the field of human rights protection - Promote tolerance, mutual understanding and dialogue between young people of different nationalities. We believe that the project will give young people a fresh insight into Europe's pressing issues in an interactive, accessible and inclusive way, provide a platform for learning, exchange of experience and the power of the art. Graffiti and storytelling are interesting and engaging for young people, they stimulate their creativity and active civil participation. The exchange will show young people that they have an active role in the fight against hate speech, how important is not to be passive, that they can engage their peers, they can also be ambassadors of No hate. The project will give them a platform to discuss topics that are usually unaffected by formal education by making them aware of the possible effects of hate speech - namely hate crimes, radicalization, extremism, discrimination, separation and division in society, social and ethnic conflicts. However, the most valuable thing that the project will achieve is a change in young people's attitudes towards their role - the exchange will promote their active civic participation, they will realize the power of non-formal education and the importance of not being indifferent, will promote responsibility towards the society. Very often young people think that they can not change anything by themselves, that nothing depends on them, and the project will show them that every action is important that they can use methods such as storrytelling and graffiti to engage more young people , with which to oppose the language of hatred among their peers. So they will realize how important it is for every person to act and not to be indifferent and passive.

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