Coming Soon: Fresh Perspectives and Insights
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We are working behind the scenes, preparing a lineup of interviews, videos, articles, and podcasts featuring experts and young people.​ READ OUR NEWS PAGE
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We are forming a dynamic team, an Advisory Committee, and a Network of dedicated Allies.
FOR MORE INFO VISIT OUR ABOUT PAGE
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Our vision is to lead change and protect futures through child and youth-driven solutions for a just and sustainable world
WHAT IS FUTURE RIGHTS?
A Catalyst for Change
Future Rights is a vibrant, collaborative space where ideas and projects are conceived, developed, and shared alongside knowledge and experience. Here, young people, experts, and individuals from diverse backgrounds, disciplines, and perspectives come together to collaborate, debate, and innovate on issues of human rights, social justice, and protection—particularly for the most vulnerable, marginalised, and at-risk children and youth. By creating spaces for participation, creativity, and learning, Future Rights empowers and connects those whose voices are often unheard, enabling them to share their experiences, challenges, and solutions, and ensuring they are truly heard. This approach helps build a new culture of child and youth rights and protection, driving systemic change.
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Future Rights key pillars towards change are:
Youth and Child Participation
This hub is dedicated to enhancing and facilitating innovative solutions from youth for youth, children for children, especially those who are marginalised and are amongst the most vulnerable . It provides an environment that boosts creative ideas and encourages the active participation and leadership of children and young people in addressing their issues, implementing practical solutions and becoming changemakers.
Intergenerational Innovative Solutions and Local Perspectives
Future Rights fosters dialogue,co-leadership between generations and experts, all united with the objective of promoting and protecting the rights of children and youth. By highlighting young people's local perspectives, we ensure that the solutions are relevant and impactful, turning challenges into opportunities and dilemmas into solutions.
​Knowledge Exchange and Practice
Our space is a hub of creativity and problem-solving, where knowledge is transformed into action, and vision is translated into reality. Future Rights empowers young voices, with focus on the most invisible ones, supports the exchange of knowledge and practices, and drives solutions to make a tangible difference in the lives of children and youth while building a new narrative around wellbeing , rights and justice from a child and youth perspective.
WHY FUTURE RIGHTS?
For further info read our problem statements, key issues and questions
One of the areas that requires urgent and innovative thinking is child protection , participation and child rights in humanitarian and development context, and in settings with multidimensional poverty, where the culture of child rights still needs to be strengthen.
Children and young people are among the most vulnerable groups, their vulnerability increases in situations of armed conflict, natural disasters, forced displacement, and pandemics. They face multiple risks of violence, abuse, exploitation, and neglect, which can have lasting impacts on their physical, mental, and social well-being.
At particular risk, are children, adolescents and youth who are amongst the most vulnerable groups, whose voices, experiences and rights have been poorly accounted for while different sectors, humanitarian and development actors have worked in silos weakening impactful change.
In addition, the culture of child rights and the perception of children, adolescents and youth as relevant changemakers is fragile across different contexts from "western" countries to development and fragile settings, increasing the risk of many young people in being exposed to different forms of violence and having their rights violated.
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HOW FUTURE RIGHTS CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE ?
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Challenging the colonial legacies and power dynamics that shape the humanitarian and development system,including its funding mechanism and its responses to child rights and protection issues concerning children and young people.
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Engaging and promoting the diversity and agency of children, youth and their communities in different contexts and cultures, by advancing their participation, leadership, knowledge and empowerment in decision and policy-making processes.
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Recognising that crises and human and child rights violations are not neutral, and addressing from an ecological perspective, their disproportionate impacts based on gender, age, ethnicity, disability, economic status, and educational background.
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Addressing the interdependence between children and young people rights and wellbeing and the environment, by acknowledging the impacts of environmental degradation and climate change on child development and protection.
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Creating continuous and accessible spaces for intergenerational dialogue and co-leadership, by building on the diverse starting points, needs, and worldviews of different generations.
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YOUTH AND CHILD RIGHTS, PROTECTION AND PARTICIPATION
in the field of
DURABLE SOLUTIONS, FORCED MIGRATION, DISPLACEMENT
ARMED CONFLICT , PEACE AND SECURITY
ACCESS TO JUSTICE
ALTERNATIVE CARE
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES
MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY
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