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Blog: Popularising the Universal Declaration on Human Rights
Human rights all too often seen as something that is too idealist, too high level or too technical by ordinary people.
I’ve just recently joined CIVICUS to coordinate the Every Human Has Rights campaign which was originally held by the Elders. I’m trying to evolve it from what as a campaign to revive the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) in its 60th year in 2008, to a platform for awareness and action on human rights, (based on the UDHR principles).
Training minorities to produce and direct community-based television programming to break down prejudices
Based in Hungary and Romania, the Black Box Foundation works to improve attitudes towards the Roma minority by helping them produce television programs for local channels. The Foundation creates production teams, trains them in video production, secures airtime, and sees that programs are exchanged between teams.

