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2024-1-ES02-KA152-YOU-0002400812024Mobility of young peopleongoing
Countries: ES|CW|RO|CZ|SK · Grant: €25,691
Human rights and rule of lawDigital transformation planning and implementationInclusion of marginalised young people

Objectives

Although it was already 2024 at that point, we had just come through a period of several years in which we had been embroiled in a large number of conflicts, such as the conflict between Israel and Palestine and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which triggered a widespread human rights, humanitarian and displacement crisis. Research teams documented thousands of possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Russian forces, such as extrajudicial executions and other unlawful killings, torture and other ill-treatment, forced population transfers, use of prohibited weapons, sexual violence and targeted attacks on schools and hospitals. Russia employed siege tactics against civilians, indiscriminate attacks and targeted attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure in the middle of winter, apparently with the intention of causing maximum suffering to the civilian population. Both sides in the conflict subjected prisoners of war to ill-treatment and possible extrajudicial executions. Another example was Venezuela, from where more than 7.7 million people left in search of protection and a better life; the majority, more than 6.5 million people, were welcomed by countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Most of the refugees and migrants from Venezuela who arrived in neighbouring countries were families with children, pregnant women, older people and people with disabilities. Furthermore, according to a needs assessment carried out during that period by UNHCR and its partners in the Regional Inter-Agency Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela (R4V), many of these people had fallen into poverty and were struggling to survive. We believed it was important for the younger generations in our society to be aware of something as crucial as human rights, something that had not been given significant attention in formal education. Due to the gap in the curriculum in terms of human rights education, we identified the need for complementary projects that would promote knowledge and training among young people to defend these rights, such as the one we proposed in this form. In many of our countries, we received people who had come from this type of conflict, for whom the period of adaptation was not easy, as they were mostly young people. Therefore, we considered it essential to understand the situation they were experiencing, the rights they were denied due to these conflicts, and the importance of coming together to promote their inclusion in our local cultures and communities. The objectives that guided this project were defined with the aim of comprehensively addressing the issue of human rights in conflict contexts and their impact on young people. Within this framework, the following objectives were set: Objective 1: To analyse and raise awareness among participants on the issue of human rights, promoting a deeper understanding of their importance and scope. Objective 2: To promote awareness of existing global realities and enable participants to assess whether human rights were being respected in different international contexts. Objective 3: To strengthen the sense of European citizenship among young participants, promoting common values and a sense of belonging. Objective 4: To foster mutual understanding between young people from different countries, facilitating intercultural dialogue and recognition of diversity. Objective 5: To promote the inclusion of people whose human rights had been violated as a result of conflicts in their countries of origin, encouraging their integration into our communities. Objective 6: To use digital tools as a means for participants to create an awareness campaign aimed at promoting inclusion and visibility of human rights in their environments.

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