TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Cihan Kilic
Objectives:
• For participants to find deeper motivation in human rights activism,
• Gain understanding, knowledge and basic skills in advocating for Human rights (e.g. through the sessions on general provisions on human rights within the UN or CoE),
• To develop an understanding of the connections and relationships between individuals, groups, rights of the nations as well as critique against them and system connected to enforce them (criticism on and challenges of human rights),
• To understand the challenges of today’s changing world in the context and direct relation to human rights and how they are violated and how they can be better protected,
• Through the design of the workshop sessions to develop and improve critical thinking skills and realize the importance of critical thinking as a tool that enables combating discrimination and promoting human rights.
• To enable participants to recognize in which aspects of their intersectional identity they have access (or no access) to human rights.
Profile of participants: young members of minorities involved in their minority youth organization.
26 young people from 9 different countries (Germany, Austria, Italy, Romania, Russia, Serbia, France, Hungary, Switzerland) have fully participated in the training.
The training course empowered young people to reflect on identity of young people from minority groups. This intersectionality and its impact on discrimination experience and human rights were discussed and explored during the seminra through the implementation of non-formal learning methods:
The participants were supported to feel more comfortable with each other to establish a good learning/working environment.
The activities were designed in a way to create a safe space where the participants feel safe to express
themselves and also learn from each other.
Moreover, the training used a variety of non-formal educational methods and activities, and the emphasis was placed on using the experience of the participants throughout the programme.
The evaluation forms filled in by the participants after the completion of the training course have highlighted that the participants gained understanding, knowledge, and basic skills in advocating for Human rights as well as understand the challenges and transformations that human rights undergo
and face in today’s changing world.
I have worked as a full-time trainer where I have contributed to the design, implementation, and evaluation of the training.