Monday, December 31, 2007

"Connecting Human Rights and Culture"

Youth Exchange
Bucharest-RO, 18-26 November 2007.

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

"We are All Human" took place...

Another successful training story...


Young Society Initiative organised "We are All Human!" international training course between 5 and 10 May 2007 in Adakule Hotel, Izmir by the support of EU YOUTH Programme Action5. The training course is developed in order to create the multipliers of the human rights education.


"We are All Human" training course is a project designed to enhance the skills and knowledge in human rights education. The target group of the project is the youth leaders, and youth workers active in international youth work or local youth work.

14 participants coming from 10 different countries (Turkey, Poland, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Romania, Latvia, Hungary, Germany, Finland) found an opportunity to learn in a non-formal educational setting and an intercultural environment by the help three experienced trainers, Behrooz Afshari, Serhan Karatas and Agnieszka Tatera.


Whatever happens in whenever time, we should always remember "We are All Human!"....

Young Society Initiative thanks Kusadasi Tours for their contribution in the organisational arrangements of the training course.

Prejudices...

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.
- Dr. Laurence J. Peter. American "hierarchiologist", Educator and Writer, 1919-1990

Young Society Initiative acts against all kinds of prejudices...
Join us in our action for a "prejudice" free world...!

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Symposium on Inter-religious / Inter-cultural dialogue

Dialogue... as a need.!


Young Society Initiative was represented in the Symposium on Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue that took place between 27-31 March 2007 in Grand Cevahir Hotel, Istanbul. The symposium was organised by TR PR Youth Services Directorate in cooperation with Council of Europe "ALL DIFFERENT ALL EQUAL" Campaign and Islamic Conference Organisation.

Young Society Initiative participated the working group on "Racism and Discrimination" during the Symposium.
Making Links or Barriers?!?
At the end of the Symposium the participants came up with a declaration on the future of "Interreligious Dialogue", and it was indeed a very hard process. It was easily understandable that greater effort for establishing interreligious dialogue is needed. We are still quite far away from understanding each other. Let's work together for making links...

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Applications for "We are all Human!"

The application process for "We are all Human!" training course has started now. The applications are expected arrive until 1st of April 2007. You can download the application form from SALTO-YOUTH web site or clicking the header above.

WE ARE ALL HUMAN!

There is a great tendency of alienasation and discrimination by the global society living on earth nowadays. People are focused on finding differences and establishing states of belonging in smaller groups and communities. Nevertheless we believe that we are all equal and worthy. We think that the diversity is the asset of the human beings. Let’s scream together… We are All Human!

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

We are all human!



A training course for humanity!

When the Nazis wanted to take all the Jews in Denmark in WWII, Danish King declared that "We are all Jewish!"...
When the Turks were burnt in their houses in Solingen in 1990, the people of Germany marched saying that "We are all Turk!"...
When Hrant Dink was assasinated in Istanbul in 2007, the people of Turkey marched declaring that "We are all Armenian!" for 16 kms...
Now we are declaring that "We are all human!"...
All want to live in a world of equality in dignity and respect of diversity...

"We are all human!" training course aims to create a learning opportunity for youth workers and youth leaders by developing their competences and understanding on working for the respect of diversity and equality in dignity via human rights education. The training course will be held in Izmir, Turkey between 5 and 10 May 2007.

Young Society Initiative for Youth Services and Training developed the training course “We are all Human!” with the support of the European Commission YOUTH Programme Action 5.

"We are all human!" is a dream for a "young society"...

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

"All Rights for All" as A BEST PRACTISE!

All Rights for All” training course is selected as one of the best practices in youth work that took place in Turkey by the GepGenc Festival, Youth Services Directorate and the National Coordination Committee of “All Different All Equal”. The training course was presented in a session at 10 o’clock on 7th of December 2007 in the Best Practises Symposium.

In the session the training course was evaluated through the major components of a project management cycle. The project is evaluated through the questions of project management tree. The project found a good practise in youth work by the ratings of the questions “what for, through what, when, for whom, by whom, how, why, which process”.
The new projects;
- “Democracy and Human Rights” seminar
- “Human Rights on the stage of Europe-Theatre as a tool for human rights education” youth exchange”
- “We are all human” training course
- “In the culture of human rights” seminar
are already confirming the project evaluation as the main outcomes of the project.

All Human Rights for All
from the GUIDELINE OF THE VIENNA WORLD CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS; 1993.

Monday, January 08, 2007

"All Rights for All" training course took place...

"All Rights for All" is realised... Human rights action is a neverending road...

“All Rights for All” is an international training course developed by Young Society Initiative for Youth Services and Training in the framework of EC YOUTH Programme Support Measures Action 5 funded by Turkish National Agency. “All Rights for All” training course took place in Adakule Hotel, Izmir between 12 and 20 October 2006.

“All Rights for All” training course was structured for the development of multipliers in human rights education in European level. The training course was the 1st event organised in the framework of the European-wide campaign “All Different All Equal” in Turkey.

During the eight days, 18 participants who are coming from 7 different countries (Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Poland, Romania, the Netherlands and Turkey) have found the opportunity to share, discuss, experience and learn about the concepts of human rights and the practical methods to make them a reality. Training course provided an interactive intercultural environment for the participants by the help of the facilitation of three experienced trainers in youth work; Agnieszka TATERA, Serhan KARATAS and Behrooz AFSHARI.

Young Society Initiative Speaker and one of the trainers of the project Serhan KARATAS evaluated the training course as; “Training course was a challenging process for all of us, as the participants found the opportunity to evaluate themselves. In the end it was very fruitful and we even came up with many ideas for taking action in the future. We are glad that the training course met its goals. It was amazing to see the participants’ enthusiasm and ambition at the end of the training course. The presentations of the new projects were great”.

At first the participants looked in themselves and raised the awareness on human rights issues. They enhanced their knowledge and skills on the basis of non-formal education and more precisely on human rights education. In the 2nd part of the training course they are trained on project management and they came up with ideas to develop new projects to multiply their knowledge and use their new skills.

The projects that become ready in training course are “Democracy and Human Rights” seminar, “Human Rights on the stage of Europe-Theatre as a tool for human rights education” youth exchange”, “Connecting through culture and human rights” youth exchange, “We are all human” training course, and “In the culture of human rights” seminar; two of the projects are already applied for a grant on YOUTH Programme on 1st November 2006 deadline and other projects will be applied on 1st February and 1st April “YOUTH in ACTION” deadlines.

Young Society Initiative for Youth Services and Training thanks Kusadasi Tours for the help in the realisation of the training course “All Rights for All”.