SUMMIT
The Co-Project where Mountains Educate, Unite, and Transform
Ideas open for co-design:
Mountain Bridges – Exchanges and training connecting mountains_Promotes learning and international solidarity among operators, educators, researchers, instructors, communicators, and mountain practitioners.It aims to share practices of sustainability, gender equity, and climate, environmental, and social justice for joint awareness and advocacy.
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Learning Refuges – Youth, community, and participation_Regenerates mountain refuges and outdoor spaces as centers for civic and environmental action, encouraging youth and community participation.
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Civic Mountain – Networks, advocacy, and training _ Develops an intersectoral network of educators, researchers, and activists to strengthen shared competencies on education, rights, and sustainability, promoting participatory processes and replicable tools.
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Caring Mountain places holistic practices, women’s knowledge, and shared spaces at the center of participation and leadership.
Care becomes a political act: it strengthens communities, promotes non-patriarchal models, and nurtures slow and circular local economies. Through trust, wellbeing, and intergenerational bonds, communities gain the capacity to shape their territories and mountain narratives, driving both personal and collective transformation.
SUMMIT is a shared and evolving idea, born to explore the mountain as a space for knowledge sharing, participation, and justice.
It is not a pre-defined project, but a collaborative framework that invites young people, educators, researchers, outdoor professionals, and communities to co-decide and co-design common pathways for justice, participation, and sustainability in the mountains.
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The goal is to build a collective learning and solidarity laboratory in highland and altitude territories, where the mountain becomes a meeting place between environment, rights, and shared responsibility — a space where climbing together means transforming experience into awareness, and awareness into action.
The PILOTS
1.NEPAL: YOUTH LEADERSHIP IN A MOMENT OF CHANGE
In this period of political transition and civic awakening, we support :
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A youth and adolescent collective called SAMANA, mobilised to campaign for gender equity and to end child marriage in their community.
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Local civil society child and youth focused along young people to map rights and needs, strengthen participation, and build their leadership and platforms for civic engagement, child protection, and social & environmental justice.
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Nepal has made strong progress in democracy, child rights and inclusion. Yet many young people still struggle to shape decisions that affect their futures; despite being the majority they face structural barriers, and indigenous and marginalised youth continue to experience discrimination.
A wave of youth-led protest known as the “Gen Z movement” erupted in September 2025 — driven by young people demanding accountability, civic space and a voice in governance. Future Rights with local civil society partners fosters inclusive leadership, intergenerational dialogue, and civic participation, to institutionalise youth engagement in decision making — ensuring their voices shape Nepal’s future.
Focus areas: Civic Space • Democracy • Youth Participation • Child Rights • Gender Equity
Future Rights, with Loo Niva Child Concern Group, in partnership with Child Rights Consortium, is supporting youth and adolescents in Lalitpur district to advocate for their rights giving them the skills and platforms to drive change.
This partnership has helped youth and adolescents from the Tamang community, establish a collective group called Sabal Awaj Ma Naya Abhiyan (SAMANA). Their role is to raise awareness and advocate local institutions about the impact of early marriage on youth and adolescents, they ask for gender equity and changes in social cultural norms.
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In 2025, Operation Daywork, an Italian youth-led organization promoting global solidarity, awarded Samana for its courageous advocacy in one of Nepal’s most challenging contexts. Led by young people from the Tamang community, Samana’s work on gender equality and ending child marriage stands out as a powerful act of leadership from youth navigating multiple layers of marginalization — as adolescents, as ethnic minorities, and as change-makers claiming space in decision-making during a moment of civic struggle and transformation.
Through the friendship between Future Rights and Durga Female Trekking Guide—Durga has become an ambassador for youth leadership and gender equality, supporting Future Rights and Samana in their campaign to end early and child marriage. Having witnessed these practices in her own community in Mugu, Durga draws on her personal journey—from being pulled out of school to breaking barriers in a male-dominated profession—to inspire young people, especially girls, to challenge harmful traditions. Her story stands as a testament to resilience and to the power of lived experience in driving change for a more equal and just Nepal.
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2.PERU : Amplifying Youth Voices for Environmental and Child Justice
Raising the Voice and Visibility of Red Interquorum:
Supporting youth activists to share their work and perspectives within the international community engaged in child and environmental rights. Their advocacy has been featured at the Conference on Children and Justice in Madrid and during an international webinar endorsed by UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change, Elisa Morgera.
Legal and Advocacy Support:
Providing pro bono legal assistance through collaboration with civil society partners, and contributing to the drafting of an advocacy toolkit to advance the Cerro de Pasco case through a child rights lens aligned with General Comment No. 26 on children’s rights and the environment.
Evidence and Accountability:
Supporting Red Interquorum’s data collection and evidence gathering on the impact of extractivism and toxic metals on children’s rights — linking scientific findings to rights-based advocacy and accountability frameworks.
In Peru, Future Rights is deepening its work with Red Interquorum Pasco — a youth-led network at the frontlines of environmental and child rights advocacy.
Our partnership focuses on empowering young leaders to confront the human and ecological injustices caused by extractive industries — especially in Cerro de Pasco, one of the world’s most polluted mining regions.
By connecting local realities with international advocacy spaces, Future Rights helps transform community evidence into global awareness and action. Together, we are framing environmental degradation and toxic exposure not only as ecological crises, but as violations of children’s fundamental rights to health, life, and a safe environment, we connect the youth voices from Red Interquorum with global decision-makers, calling for environmental crimes such as ecocide to be recognised as child rights violations.
Focus areas: Environmental & Climate Justice • Child Rights • Evidence & Accountability • Youth Leadership • Right to Healt
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At the 5th World Congress on Justice with Children (June 2025), Future Rights, in partnership with Terre des Hommes, Red Interquorum Pasco, and the Child and Youth Advisory Committee, led a workshop on how UNCRC General Comment No. 26 can strengthen justice for children affected by environmental harm.
Using the case of Cerro de Pasco, young activists explored how children’s rights can drive accountability in environmental decision-making and inspire greater youth mobilisation for climate and health justice.
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This work has since continued through an online webinar convened by Future Rights and partners, inviting civil society organisations to contribute to the draft of an advocacy toolkit designed to support youth-led campaigns applying General Comment No. 26 to cases like Cerro de Pasco.
​Read this article to learn more about Cerro de Pasco and Red Interquorum
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Read the Briefing Paper on the shared work between Future Rights and Red Interquorum ENG- ESP
Through his powerful photo reportage, photographer Marco Garro has helped bring visibility to the children and communities of Cerro de Pasco, capturing the human reality behind environmental injustice.
His work — including “The Bleeding Children of Cerro de Pasco Are Expecting Justice” — has become a visual testimony to the rights violations that statistics alone cannot convey.
During the World Congress on Justice with Children and in other global spaces, Marco’s has supported Future Rights and Red Interquorum with storytelling that amplified the voices of young activists, transforming empathy into awareness and awareness into action.
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Youth from Red Interquorum explaining how General Comment 26 could help understand and raise awareness on the impact extractive industry in Cerro de Pasco is having on children's health
3.SOLIDARITY IN ACTION: Youth Voices Across the Globe
A.G.I.R.E. — Environment, Youth, Inclusion, Resources, Empowerment.
The A.G.I.R.E. project, created by Centro Giovani Papperlapapp (Operation Daywork) and Future Rights APS, unites students, activists, and experts from Tuscany and Bolzano with allies in Peru and Source International. It strengthens youth-led action on environmental and human rights justice, linking local engagement with global solidarity and accountability.
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Operation DayWork an Alliance for shared action
In 2025, Future Rights nominated SAMANA, a Nepalese youth collective led by Durga Rawal, for the Operation Daywork Human Rights Award, which they won. Together, Future Rights and OD are expanding awareness of youth civic participation and gender justice, showing how solidarity drives real, lasting change.
From the highlands of the Andes to the valleys of the Himalayas, young people are rising to reclaim narratives long written without them. Their activism crosses borders — uniting movements for human rights, environmental justice, and social equality. Solidarity becomes not just empathy, but a shared responsibility to reimagine power, confront colonial legacies, and transform systems of injustice.
Across continents, youth are connecting struggles — recognising that the fight for a clean environment is the same fight for dignity, inclusion, and accountability. Through storytelling, advocacy, and grassroots action, they are “ecolonising” narratives: centering lived experience, exposing inequity, and building a just future shaped by those most affected.
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The A.G.I.R.E. pilot project was born from collaboration between Centro Giovani Papperlapapp APS (Operation Daywork) and Future Rights APS, blending Operation Daywork’s youth participation model with the ELEVATE approach. The project brings together students, activists, and civil society across Tuscany and Bolzano, with the support of Asiri ODV, Red Interquorum youth from Cerro de Pasco—recipients of the 2024 Operation Daywork Human Rights Award—and scientists from Source International.
Through workshops, school dialogues, and public events, participants explore the links between environmental and human rights, accountability, and youth participation. Together, they are creating a local-to-global action group — turning awareness into advocacy and solidarity campaigns supporting communities affected by extractivism in Peru and beyond.
​Please watch the interview with youth from Operation Daywork introducing the Human Rights Award and Red Interquorum Activists
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In 2025, Future Rights nominated SAMANA—a youth collective in Nepal that advocates against early and forced marriage—for the Operation Daywork Human Rights Award. SAMANA’s work was recognised for its powerful engagement of young people in civic participation, gender equality, and social justice, embodying the very values that Operation Daywork promotes.
Through this collaboration, Future Rights and OD continue to expand awareness around youth participation in civic spaces, proving that global solidarity is not symbolic—it’s transformative.
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U-CHANGE
Learn. Create. Lead change — together.
1.Strengthening Youth Leadership in Uganda
Hands Against Child Marriage is a collective of passionate youth advocates in Uganda working to eradicate child marriage and empower young people in their communities.
Like many youth-led grassroots initiatives, they continue to navigate challenges in sustaining and scaling their impact.
Through the ELEVATE Model, Future Rights has offered mentorship and strategic guidance to one of the founders—supporting them in strengthening the organisation’s foundation and exploring ways to structure and formalise their work.
This collaboration reflects our commitment to accompany emerging youth leaders as they refine their vision and capacity to drive change within their own communities.
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2.Supporting the take off of safe spaces for LGBTQ+ youth in Nigeria
We are mentoring a young activist in Nigeria whose aim is to set up a safe learning and growth space for LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs and creatives. This would help queer Nigerians move from survival to sustainability by combining storytelling, peer learning, and digital skills training. Despite restrictive laws and discrimination, the initiative creates opportunities for LGBTQ+ youth to build confidence, strengthen livelihoods, and connect through shared experience — proving that when marginalised voices create, they don’t just make progress, they make history.
U-CHANGE
U-CHANGE helps young changemakers turn ideas into real action.
Through mentoring, coaching, and shared learning, we guide youth advocates and groups as they grow their skills, test ideas, and build initiatives that make a difference.
Our first U-CHANGE experiment began through the Sprout Programme by Ignite Philanthropy, where our founder mentored fellows of Sprout: Next Generation Systems Leaders for Child Safety and Well-Being. The programme fosters youth agency and cross-system collaboration to tackle issues like child safety and protection.
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Through this partnership, we supported Namawejje Hajarah and her peers in structuring Hands Against Child Marriage in Uganda — and we continue mentoring youth advocates, including a young activist from Nigeria advancing LGBTQ+ rights.
Grounded in our ELEVATE approach, U-CHANGE connects learning with real-world action — helping young people lead change through experience, collaboration, and care.
Areas of Expertise
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