HUMAN RIGHTS WEEK

On Tuesday RightsNI.org, supported by Amnesty International and the Committee on the Administration of Justice (Caj), presented RIGHTSNILive!, an event to speak about this. The event couldn't be held at a more appropriate and thought-provoking building- Belfast's Crumlin Road Gaol, the city's main prison for 150 years. Through its history, it was the unwelcome home for suffragettes, internees, paramilitaries.

The guests of the night were people working in different ways about Human Rights. These people are trying everyday to tell stories of weak and unsafe people, to make them important, to make them protected. 

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It is important to think that in European countries many people live without all the rights guaranteed. The writers, directors, journalists and many other supporters of the rights campaigns are working in the belief that taking care and listening to the story of someone else is like taking care and listening to our story and our own world,
as Hegel said, We can be free only if all are free.

Speaking about HUMAN RIGHTS, yesterday as WIMPS we went to Y11 Little Flowers Girl's School.
The topic of the day was CITIZENSHIP, EQUALITY & DEMOCRACY.
Some activities and games were done to provoke observations and to discuss with them about how they are important in their own society.

Some ideas started from the concept of how to be involved in your society and to be a citizen.

Explaining some key points about democracy and freedom was important for them and is necessary for us to know the whole meaning of our everyday language, to remember that sometimes we are not completely aware what we're talking about.

The students wrote some comments about what is CITIZENSHIP means to them:

-when you are citizen in your community

-having somewhere to live

-working with people of different countries

-having friends, coming together, community, working together, family, helping -people who need it, 

-being good citizen in your country

-when your are active in your country

-having rights to live somewhere

-were the people work together and develop to make things better

-working with people in our community and people outside the area we know. all communities are connected.

-people have a role inside their communities and coming together

-place where you are born

It was interesting to see how many of them found the meaning of the word more a sense of community than a sense of country. This is a good way to see what they think would be resourceful in where they live everyday.