February Campaign: Human Rights

Anica Samleit
15.10.2012

Banner-Menschenrechte_Agypten_enHuman Rights – everybody knows they exist, but what exactly are our rights? Do you know them all – I am guessing no! That’s why we dedicate February to Human Rights.

In our category “human rights” you can find exciting projects concerning this topic the whole year round.

This month our campaign-page is also full of projects that are working with human rights. Besides projects that work on human rights in Germany, you will also find international initiatives. We would like to introduce to the projects of the month febrauary now:

Traumatized refugees in Berlin need you!
(Berlin, Germany)

This project makes citizens of Berlin to mentors for refugees from all over the world who had to leave their home country. In Germany many unknowns situations are waiting fort hem: a foreign language, complicated paper work with the officials, a new surrounding and a new culture and lifestyle. This projects connects them with a personal, volunteering mentor.

A one-year-mentorship costs 100 Euro – donate now!

Teams for children’s rights
(Germany)

The UN-convention for children’s rights specifies the right of our kids. Many kids do not know their rights – just like their parents. To change this in the future, this project offers Children’s-Rights-Boxes – filled with information for example for schools.

One children’s-rights-bag costs 30 Euros – donate now!

Anne Frank – here and today
(Berlin, Germany)

The Anne Frank Center in Berlin offers lectures, ZEITZEUGENGESPÄCHE, movie nights, seminars and PODIUMSDISKUSSIONEN. For schools and other young groups they offer guides who consider their age and existing knowledge. Here it is possible to discuss topics like racism and antisemitism – then and today.

A project day for a school costs 240 Euro – donate now!

Human Rights for the poorest
(Bangladesh)

If you don’t know you’re rights, you can’t claim them. Especially the poor people in Bangladesh are affected by human rights violation like dowry, betrayel and marriages between children. To fight against this in the future, this project educates human rights advocates, who can offer workshops fort he rural communities.

To educate a human right advocate costs 18 Euro – donate now!

Protect human right activists
(Hamburg, Germany)

This project supports women organisations, environment organisations, lawyers and the families of crime victims in their work for defending human rights. In addition this project reports the work of human right activists all over the world – currently there are many volunteers in Mexico, Guatemala, Columbia, Nepal, and Indonesia.

100 newsletters cost 33 Euros – donate now!

Protection of Ancestral land of Palawan tribe
(Philippines)

The land of the native tribe Palawan is in severe danger – because they don’t have the right papers a company is already drilling for nickel on the ground where they grew up. Together with a local organisation this project fights fort he right of the Palawan people to stay – the goal is to declare the area as he land of the native tribe.

The documentation of the indigenous lifestyle costs 200 Euro – donate now!

You can’t take a decision which project to support? Then donate on our campaign page – the collected donations will be split up between the projects introduced in this blog post.