My Rights Are Universal

Aims of the tool

To emphasize the importance of respect towards human rights among young people and youth workers

Description of the tool

The projector and sound system should be checked, the chairs should be in a half circle form, comfortable to see the projector screen as well as each other.
Intro – 10 min
Energizer “Fruit Salad”: ask participants to count from 1 to 4 but instead of numbers to repeat fruit names – apple, pear, lemon, banana. Once everyone has a name of a fruit, you try the implementation part. Once the facilitator says banana, all participates who said banana during the counting should change their places, and they are not allowed to come back to their chairs. When the facilitator says fruit salad, all participants should change their places. This can last 1-3 minutes and with the same fruit names can be used in between the session parts, if needed.
Introduce the aim of the meeting and expectations that you have from participants during the session. Tell them that you are going to watch and discuss 5 films made in Armenia by youth workers from 8 countries (during the project “DocuRights”).
Part 1 - 5 min
Ask participants what they know about human rights. what kind of documents they know to protect rights? How many Human Rights do they know?
Part 2 - 15 min
Play the film “Give me my freedom”.
After the film, read the Article 13 for participants and ask them to remember when their right of movement was violated and did they violated others’ right of free movement? If so - why.
Part 3 - 15 min
Play the film “The UnSeen”.
After the film, read the Article 3 for participants and ask them who should protect their rights?
Part 4 - 15 min
Play the film “New you”.
After the film, read the Article 6 for participants and ask them what is good and what is bed for us? What to do if the individual “good” is not good for the society, and the opposite? Compromise – is it a solution?
Part 5 - 15 min
Play the film “Our Homeland”.
After the film, read the Article 2 for participants and ask them if all the people have rights? Do we need Human Rights declaration if our rights are still being violated?
Part 6 - 15 min
Play the film “Article 22”.
After the film, read the Article 22 for participants and ask them what the state should do to ensure our social security and how we can help the state to protect our right of social security.
Sum up - 10 min
Finalize the session asking participants where our freedoms are coming from? In which cases our freedom and rights can be restricted? What are duties and responsibilities and what’s their relations with rights?
Tell participants, that the aim of the session was to raise questions about which the participants will continue remember in their daily life and the answers of lots of questions they will find out with their life experience.
It’s important during all the session to direct conversations in a way to show the importance of peace, human rights, dignity and mutual respect towards people who are different. Remember, all the rights are equally important and in case of illegal absence of any right there cannot be a complete peace or justice.

Film files to download
5 films to be used during the session: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pEsVug2WQTVtzQ2mnSLLchBWCzThBM0m

5 articles of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be used during the session:

Article 2.
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3.
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 6.
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 13.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 22.
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.