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The main objectives of the meeting were to plan for the coming activities,to identify means to support HRE culture and activities within the EMHRN, toexplore engagements with youth workers and activists in the region and toprepare the 2008 Summer school.
Following the meeting, the working group suggested to undertake a survey on youth activities/ activities related to youth/ youth activism within the EMHRN in order to mainstream a youth involvement within the EMHRN members’ projects and programs. Mu’ayyad Mehyar from the DIHRS is in charge of the Research TOR which will be submitted to the EC.
The working group members suggested reflecting on means to deal with difficult political contexts and circumstances while engaging in activities for the promotion of Human rights through a discussion paper that will be drafted by Colm Regan with the inputs of all members according to the Human Rights situation on their own country.
The Summer school will take place close to Istanbul and should focus on Conflict and its impact on Human Rights and be designed to share HRE methodologies. During the summer school, the actions’ implementation should be discussed and the participants should agree on the follow-up. The Summer school will be oriented to action planning on an individual, collective or/ and organisational basis. The Summer School will be organized in cooperation with Turkish organizations: Youth unit at the Bilgi University, Community Volunteers, Women for Women’s Human Rights and Amnesty International Turkey with the participation of the EMHRN member organisation Human Rights Association. In order to do so, a full day meeting was organised with these organisations and they were encouraged to take part in other working groups of the EMHRN and become members. A regional coordination meeting took place with the participation of the EMHRN, the Balkan Network for Human Rights, 80:20 and Medac and the CIHRS. The objective of the meeting was to make it possible for human rights summer school organisers to share experiences and to explore areas for potential mutual co-operation and sharing. The meeting’s outcome was identified as follows: to give further publicity and visibility to the regional summer schools by advertising them collectively on the EMHRN web site, to draft a shared document on lessons learned and good practices from Summer schools, to create a pool of recommended trainers
and lectures, to exchange modules and lectures, to hold an annual meetings of Summer School coordinators, to suggest to the EMHRN that a facilitators’ training course is organised for 12 people who will have the potential to work on a regular base with the coordinators. |
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