Promoting Human Rights Through Digital Media

Project Aim and Objectives

This project aims to empower and engage young people to become promoters of human rights and change-makers in their community by using and promoting digital media as a powerful tool for promoting human rights and addressing social issues such as discrimination, bullying, gender-based violence, equality and equity, inclusion, gender perspectives and such but not limited to. To achieve the aim of the project we will focus mainly on three main specific objectives that will lead to concrete results and outcomes.

These objectives are as following:

To empower 30 young people directly through a 5 days training programme aiming to equip them with proper and adequate skills and knowledge through non-formal learning methods and tools about human rights and digital media.
To engage the trained participants and other young people in direct actions in the community by supporting them to put their learned skills and knowledge into practice through actions and activities such as workshops, campaigning activities, advocacy actions and such.
To promote human rights and address different social issues such as discrimination, bullying, gender-based violence, equality and equity, inclusion, gender perspectives and such but not limited to among the community by using digital media tools.

Project Aim and Objectives

Training Implementation – This phase consists of the implementation of a 5 days training that will bring together 30 participants in an interactive training programme aiming to equip them with proper and adequate skills and knowledge through non-formal learning methods and tools about digital media as tools for human rights promotion and as well as tools to address social issues. In advance before the training, the team will select and notify the selected participants for the training. The team will also make all the necessary preparations related to logistics for the training venue.

Follow-Up – In this phase, the trained participants are expected to get engaged in their community with the aim to empower other young people about digital tools and make them aware of their importance as tools to address social issues and promote human rights. This will give the participants the opportunity to put their skills and knowledge gained through the training into practice.

In specific, during the follow-up stage we want to: Implement at least 5 workshops with the community that aim to educate and empower other young people about digital tools and make them aware of their importance as tools to address social issues and promote human rights. Implement an online campaign aiming through digital media tools aiming to raise awareness about the importance of digital media in our life as well as to promote and raise awareness about human rights and social issues by using digital media tools.

Training Days

Day 1

We started today the 5-days training in the framework of the project “Promoting Human Rights Through Digital Media” a pilot activity supported by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe and being implemented by the Youth Activities Center on a local level in the city of Durrës. On the first day of the training programme, participants had the space and the opportunity to: Get to know each-other and introduce themselves in groups through interactive exercises Get to know to the Council of Europe and the European Youth Foundation as supporters of this project Get to know the project topic and details such as: aim, objectives, phases, action plan and training programme

Day 2

The 2-nd day of the 5 day training programme for young people in the framework of the project “Promoting Human Rights Through Digital Media” a pilot activity supported by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe and being implemented by the Youth Activities Center on a local level in the city of Durrës. The training program today was very productive and interactive for the participants where specifically the participants worked in groups on topics such as: Effect of digital media in our community Digital media, addiction or a powerful and useful tool Human Rights in the digital environment Addressing social issues through digital media

Day 3

The 3-rd day of the 5 day training programme for young people in the framework of the project “Promoting Human Rights Through Digital Media” a pilot activity supported by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe and being implemented by the Youth Activities Center on a local level in the city of Durrës. The training program for this day was very productive and interactive where specifically the participants: Got informed with facts and stats about the usage of digital media Get to know digital media tools Learned how to make an impact using digital media Learned how to tackle human rights through digital media

Day 4

The 4-th day of the 5 day training programme for young people in the framework of the project "Promoting Human Rights Through Digital Media" a pilot activity supported by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe and being implemented by the Youth Activities Center on a local level in the city of Durrës. The training program for this day was very productive and interactive where specifically the participants: Prepared follow-up activities in community Learned how to make an online campaign Learned about volunteering through digital media

Day 5

The 5-th and the last day of the 5 day training programme for young people in the framework of the project "Promoting Human Rights Through Digital Media" a pilot activity supported by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe and being implemented by the Youth Activities Center on a local level in the city of Durrës. The training program for this day was very productive and interactive where specifically the participants: Planned follow-up activities in community Gave feedback on the training Certificate ceremony

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Workshops

Workshop - Digital civilization

Participants learned what it means to be a citizen in the digital community and what are our rights in this environment. The youngsters got informed of how to protect these rights for a safe virtual world. Through different exercise they expressed their opinion on civilisation in community.

Workshop - Human Rights

Participants learned what human rights are and how important they are in our life. They also got informed of how to react in cases when these rights are denied by other members of community directly or not.

Workshop - Racial and religious racism

Participants learned the definition of racism and its types, specifically the racial and the religious ones. The youngsters got to know the negative effects of racism towards other members of community. They also got informed of ways to prevent this phenomena in digital environment.

Workshop - Promoting human rights in social media

During this workshop young people discussed on the use of social media as a tool through which many social topics can be promoted based on the impact they have on everyone’s life. Young participants learned how to address issues and how to promote the importance of human rights by using different social platforms to raise their voice.

Workshop - The impact of digital media on young people

Participants learned what digital tools are and how their use directly affects our lives. Young people were informed of ways to be safer online while respecting our rights and the rights of everyone. Through exercises and examples from daily life, they got to understand the topic better.

Workshop - Human Rights

Workshop - Hate speech

Participants learned what hate speech means and how it directly affects our lives. The youngsters got informed of forms of hate speech in daily life and how to avoid them. Through different exercises in groups they learned how to react to these cases.