Matthias Boehning, GenSec ISHR: Youths and Human Rights
Human rights are essential for our lives and Well-being; they ensure that we are treated with fairness, equality, and respect. But sadly, many of those rights continue to be violated around the world. This is why it's so important that young people take up the cause and fight for human rights.
Global: World Day against Child Labour
World Day Against Child Labour is observed every year on June 12 to raise awareness about the urgency of eradicating child labour. On this day, governments, local authorities, civil society, international workers, employers and organizations get together to ‘point out the child labour problem and define the guidelines to help child labourers’.
Ambassadors: Strengthening Youth Voices: Lessons from The International Society for Human Rights (ISHR)
The ISHR recently launched the ambassadors program to have a network of young human rights-oriented persons who champion the ideals of ISHR in their societies. The fruits of this initiative were starkly seen in the recent Twitter space organized by the ISHR under the topic; Young People in Human Rights Defense.
Twitter Spaces: The Political Conflicts in Africa and the European Migrant Crisis.
The current migrant crisis on the shores of Europe has elicited mixed controversial reaction from Europe, the UN and the greater part of Africa.
Africa: Let’s Right Our Economic Wrongs too.
Rights are Universal and Complementary, and that is why we must advocate for them as such— universally and complementarily.
