Making Change
Meet the Rawabet youth changemakers!
All across the Middle-East and North Africa region, youth changemakers, like you, are reflecting on their role in reshaping their communities and taking action to make them more inclusive, safer, and peaceful places to live.
Over the course the Rawabet Initiative, we hope to introduce you to many interesting youth changemakers who lead change in their communities through innovative actions in benefit of their fellow citizens. They are role models to be emulated and much can be learned from the experiences. These are their stories.
Blog
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Designing Positive Training for Youth Citizenship and Participation in Egypt
6/21/2018
Human rights education is about encouraging everyone ‒ even the trainers ‒ to constantly test and retest their notions and beliefs. “It’s not like you switch on the light and you are convinced about the rights of women to do x, y, z, for example,” or that your actions or reactions always align with your beliefs, she says.
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Promoting the emancipation of young Tunisian women through social engagement
6/21/2018
“It is not enough for the state to change the rights or to put in place new rights without doing a great job of raising awareness and changing practices and culture. It must start with the school, the family, in the street.” Civil society engagement is necessary to ensure that legal gains become realities in society and in the daily lives of women.
