4O: Discovery, awareness, empowerment and human rights organization
Youth Initiative for Human Rights ·Croatia
About this project
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Project addresses the rise of nationalism in Croatia, especially in smaller underdeveloped communities and those affected by the war in the 1990s, which due to high emigration rates also record an increase in intolerance towards national minorities, Roma, refugees and all who are perceived as “others”, whose status and rights are often denied.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Key activities: workshops in the field of human rights and two Schools of Transitional Justice; local interventions with key local stakeholders (local authorities, schools, minorities) in selected communities from three underserved counties; awareness campaigns and dissemination of good (local level) practice through a compendium of good practices on multi-ethnic cooperation, performance on refugee experiences by the refugees themselves, advocacy targeting government officials, and building capacity of CSOs.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">The project aims to reduce hate speech and hate crimes at the community level; better integration </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">of national minorities into society; interethnic cooperation among young people at the local level; raised </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">awareness of the importance of human rights among minorities and young people; empowering citizens to oppose discrimination and xenophobia; a higher level of social cohesion at the local level; strengthening the capacity of CSOs to advocate and promote human rights. </span></span> </p> <p>Project partners, located in target areas, participate equally in all activities and contribute to the project with their specific expertise, including skills, knowledge and insights about target groups. They implement local interventions based on results of community based needs assessment.</p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">The target groups are young people between 16 and 30; the elderly people, members of national and ethnic minorities and refugees, and general population with the aim of encouraging cooperation; local CSOs, executive representatives and decision makers.</span></span></p>
Project partners
- European home Vukovar Project partner· Croatia
- Civil rights project Sisak Project partner· Croatia
- Status M Project partner· Croatia
- Arterarij Project partner· Croatia