Human Rights

  • Falkenberg, Sundays river valley och Sarah Baartman district – South Africa

    Falkenberg, Sundays river valley och Sarah Baartman district – South Africa

    Building bridges The partners state that children and youth exclusion often is perpetuated by poverty and inequality, which limit access to resources and opportunities for young people to improve their social mobility and economic prospects. For the South African partners the objectives are to gain capability to: No interventions or activities for youth shall be…

  • Falkenberg, Sundays river valley och Sarah Baartman district – South Africa

    Falkenberg, Sundays river valley och Sarah Baartman district – South Africa

    Building bridges The partners state that children and youth exclusion often is perpetuated by poverty and inequality, which limit access to resources and opportunities for young people to improve their social mobility and economic prospects. For the South African partners the objectives are to gain capability to: No interventions or activities for youth shall be…

  • Ekerö och Cape Agulhas, Sydafrika

    Ekerö och Cape Agulhas, Sydafrika

    Inclusion through developing dialogue and cooperation between civil society and the municipality The aim of the project is to investigate how to develop dialogue and cooperation between civil society (non-governmental organisations or networks and citizens) and the respective municipalities. A focus area for the cooperation will be identified, such as developing methods for citizen dialogue,…

  • Ekerö och Cape Agulhas, Sydafrika

    Ekerö och Cape Agulhas, Sydafrika

    Inclusion through developing dialogue and cooperation between civil society and the municipality The aim of the project is to investigate how to develop dialogue and cooperation between civil society (non-governmental organisations or networks and citizens) and the respective municipalities. A focus area for the cooperation will be identified, such as developing methods for citizen dialogue,…

  • Haparanda and Solwezi – Zambia

    Haparanda and Solwezi – Zambia

    Empowering of women and youth in local democracy and development work Haparanda and Solwezi are carrying out this Inception to have the opportunity to jointly develop a project plan closely linked to issues of inequality and empowering of women. The partners intend to find strengthening approaches to improve developmental inequalities through equitable service delivery without…

  • Haparanda and Solwezi – Zambia

    Haparanda and Solwezi – Zambia

    Empowering of women and youth in local democracy and development work Haparanda and Solwezi are carrying out this Inception to have the opportunity to jointly develop a project plan closely linked to issues of inequality and empowering of women. The partners intend to find strengthening approaches to improve developmental inequalities through equitable service delivery without…

  • Valdemarsvik, Palapye and Central district – Botswana

    Valdemarsvik, Palapye and Central district – Botswana

    Ensuring youth participation The two municipalities cooperating with the district level in Botswana, though the involvement of Central district in the partnership, are committed to achieving Agenda 2030 through a rightsbased approach and aim to work more systematically with human rights at a local level. At this stage both partners have established a mutual challenge…

  • Valdemarsvik, Palapye and Central district – Botswana

    Valdemarsvik, Palapye and Central district – Botswana

    Ensuring youth participation The two municipalities cooperating with the district level in Botswana, though the involvement of Central district in the partnership, are committed to achieving Agenda 2030 through a rightsbased approach and aim to work more systematically with human rights at a local level. At this stage both partners have established a mutual challenge…

  • Human rights in Gaborone and Johannesburg: finding meaning in local context

    Cities are critical human rights actors. Human rights are interpreted through local culture, history, politics and context. Cities are increasingly at the heart of this process of interpreting and “localizing” (Camilo Sanchez 2020) for a growing share of the world’s population. How can we support the development of civic human rights initiatives in Southern Africa…

  • Human rights in Gaborone and Johannesburg: finding meaning in local context

    Cities are critical human rights actors. Human rights are interpreted through local culture, history, politics and context. Cities are increasingly at the heart of this process of interpreting and “localizing” (Camilo Sanchez 2020) for a growing share of the world’s population. How can we support the development of civic human rights initiatives in Southern Africa…