GUİDELİNES TO BE A BETTER GLOBAL CİTİZEN FOR A BETTER FUTURE

By Irina Gancheva Ganeva

The citizens of the world are connected. Their thoughts and actions affect the way every single one of their fellow citizen experiences life I personally think society should be more responsible and caring about people’s lives, particularly the most discriminated ones, because intolerance and hate speech are rooted in it and injustices are systemic. Instead of contributing to biases, us as the youth and the future, we must take action: fight and protect human rights for all human beings, starting from our own habits and stereotypes we have about people

From my personal experience, the social system is not contributing for the wellbeing of all people –especially those who are victims of hate speech –, instead, it is increasing to their unwellness.

Thanks to this project, we learned problems and solutions related to the violation of human basic rights. Here are some thoughful points on what human rights are and how we as young people can contribute to raise awareness on human rights violation and hate speech, advanced by participants:

“Human rights are important but we are not paying enough attention. Education is the most important thing for our rights We should raise awareness with educating children from the beginning”

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Umut, Turkiye

“What every single one of us do defines us, the community that we live in and the life we are building for ourselves and others. And that also includes standing up for our rights”.

- Nickola, Bulgaria

“Despite our world becoming more globalized, the distance between communities inside our society is growing If we don't fight back this trend will ruin our social interactions completely”

- Marco, Italy