03-04/11/2016 - Youth Activism Seminar 2016 (Hungary)

The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is the principal institution of the OSCE responsible for the human dimension.

ODIHR will be organizing a two‐day Youth Activism Seminar (“The Seminar”) on 3‐4 November 2016 in Budapest. The Seminar will bring together youth activists from OSCE participating States to discuss and address contemporary challenges in the field of human rights activism and suggest ways to overcome these.

The Seminar will involve three categories of young activists – representing youth from the most informal structures to the most formal ones.
- Voice: This relates to informal forms of political participation and focuses on online activism. Ideal candidates include representatives of social media groups and bloggers.
- Influence: This relates to semi‐formal forms of political participation and focuses on civil society organizations active in advocating and lobbying for changes to policies.
- Governance: This relates to formal mechanisms of political participation such as political parties and governance institutions, such as young politicians and members of parliaments, government representatives, city councilors, policy and political advisors.

Eligibility:
- Youth activists aged 18 to 35;
- Gender and geographical balance;
- Minimum 2 years of experience and proven track record of involvement and engagement within their social community (i.e. involvement in the NGO sector, student’s unions, local and national political parties, online democracy and human rights associations, political parties and NGOs);
- A proven track record of engagement within the community, demonstrating potential in addressing human rights, tolerance and non‐discrimination issues, including countering anti‐ Semitism, racism, xenophobia, gender equality, intolerance against Roma, Muslims, Christians and other religions or beliefs, and other groups.
- English language competency.

Costs:
- Accommodation and travel costs for the event will be covered by ODIHR.

Applications will be accepted until 18 September.

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