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Your Voice for Youth Rights

Advocacy in Action is more than just raising awareness – it's about taking meaningful steps to drive real-world change. It's the process of transforming your ideas, beliefs, and passion for justice into tangible actions that address critical issues and improve lives.

Create Advocacy

How To Create Your Advocacy

STEP 1 | Share Your Story:

Upload photos, videos, or any evidence of your advocacy efforts. From holding up signs to speaking in front of crowds, every step counts!

STEP 2 | Why It Matters:

Your evidence inspires others to take action, highlights the power of youth advocacy, and strengthens our call for justice and accountability for youth rights.

STEP 3 | What To Include:

  • Photos or videos of your events and campaigns.
  • Evidence of impactful conversations or creative activism.
  • Anything that shows your commitment to protecting youth rights! Upload details of your advocacy and be part of a global community making a difference.

Creating Your Advocacy? What to Know?

Browse key guidelines and helpful answers to make your advocacy clearer and more effective whenever you need a little direction.

  1. Focused on human rights: Ensure your content is centered around human rights or youth rights. Highlight what human rights challenges your initiative tackles and what impact you are aiming for or have already achieved.
  2. Made by youth and for youth: Showcase advocacy initiatives designed and led by youth organizations, networks, movements or individual young people. Include personal stories of youth who resist and survive in difficult conditions for the cause of human rights.
  3. Educational: Submit valuable information that enhances understanding of human rights, youth rights, or advocacy. Include research, case studies, or guidelines that help build knowledge and skills.
  4. Empowering and motivating: Motivate young people to engage in human rights causes and drive community change. Share tools, tips and best practices.
  5. Inclusive and respectful: Use inclusive language, avoid stereotypes, and promote equality. Discriminatory language or hate speech will not be allowed.
  6. Clear and well-organized: Structure your content logically with headings, short paragraphs, and concise explanations.
  7. Credible and reliable: Ensure all information is fact-checked and from trusted sources (e.g. UN reports, peer-reviewed research). Avoid misinformation.
  8. Youth-tailored: Use language and themes suitable for youth. Avoid jargon and handle sensitive topics carefully.
  9. Consent-based: Obtain consent from all individuals featured in your content. For children, ensure you have consent from parents or legal guardians.

Your voice matters

Take a few moments to fill out the form below. Please note that submission of this form does not guarantee that your story will be shared on our website but if an opportunity arises to share your story, we will be in touch.

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