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Guidelines of the contest: Diversity, Participation, Human Rights

Context and motivation

The idea of Summerweek came from contact - making seminar of religious (Muslim, Jewish, Christian) youth organisations. The meeting took place in May 2005, Warsaw, Poland as a conference that was relevant to the Council of Europe Head of States meeting. This informal group (participants of seminar) got the input as an expert group to the Youth Summit meeting in Warsaw. One of the outcomes from our previous activities is a strong need of the inter - religious dialogue for the peace among young people. Through the meeting of young representatives of three big religions, we’d like to show how this dialogue is needed in today’s Europe. The role of youth faith-based NGOs is to prepare youth to the role of constructors of peace bridges and mutual understanding in their local communities. In the light of last religious based conflicts, we found the importance  to enable members of our movements to meet, get to know, integrate and to create methods of collaboration for the peace.

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The League for Intercultural Cooperation (LIC) has launched a “Media Tolerance Monitoring” program to observe the covering of inter-religious and inter-ethnic relations in Azerbaijani media. In the frame of the project, the LIC will monitor 8 newspapers: Azadlig, Ekho, Khalg Gazeti, Uch Nogta, Yeni Azerbaijan, Yeni Musavat, Zerkalo, and 525-ci Gazet from August till October 2006. Six of them are in Azerbaijani and two are in Russian. One of them is governmental, three are edited by political parties, and four are independent.

Hope Foundation anually organises a number of volunteer projects and workcamps that welcome international volunteers from all over the world to involve themselves in a number of these important local projects.
The 2006 calendar is now on and applications are recieved for the various volunteer camps!

ORPHANAGE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT!!!

Volunteers will be involved in the construction and building of an orpahanage. This is a small center which after construction shall lodge a number of orphans and street children hanging around the town of Bertoua having. This children have no shelter and it shall be Hope Foundation's contribution to assist these vulnerable youths. Volunteers shall be involved work such as brick laying and the contruction of the major foundation of the building.

We refer not only to the activists and the leaders of youth organizations (antifascist, civil or human rights), but to the common dwellers of Eastern and Western Europe, Russia and all the CIS countries – to all people who on their way to school or work, to shop or club come across hate symbols on the walls and fences of your cities and towns (swastika, SS-symbole, runes and etc). These symbols promote violence and intolerance as due methods to solve the recent problems of society.

SEMINAR REGARDING HUMAN RIGHTS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ORGANIZED BY THE AROMANIAN COMMUNITY FROM ROMANIA AND WITH FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM EUROPEAN YOUTH FOUNDATION.

This seminar, held by Youth of European Nationalities, will be aimed at European ethnic and national minorities. Topics of conflict management and conflict prevention will be the political theme. It hopes to create intercultural dialogue among different ethnic groups and to develop pratical guidlines about how to deal with minorities and majorities in multi-ethnic states.

The aim of this specific training course is to provide opportunities to youth leaders and youth workers in youth NGO field of diverse EU countries (representing around 55% of EU population, according to Eurostat), who are in the position to act as “multipliers” of a non-formal educational nature related to Children and Human Rights issues in a multicultural environment, empowering international youth participation.