Human Rights Challenges
According to the 2019 Universal Periodic Review from United Nations, the human rights challenges in Portugal relate to, among others:
- Racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance, hate speech, and the spread of racism and stereotypes, specially within Roma, migrants, Muslims and African descent;
- Domestic violence, investigation of cases and access to justice;
- Overcrowding prisons, adequate sanitary and health conditions in prisons;
- Appropriate punishment for police and prison guards regarding ill-treatment and abuse;
- Wage gap between woman and man pay for equal work, high unemployment rate;
- Access to sexual and reproductive health;
- Access to education within ethnic minorities;
- Immigration-related detention of children, free access to education, health and social services.
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Human Rights Academy's projects
The Human Rights Academy has been working in Portugal since 2014.
Democracy for young people in Portugal (2019-2021)
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- Aim: Develop active citizenship and strengthen democracy in Portugal.
- Activities: Teaching materials will be developed, and teachers and course leaders will receive training. Workshops, seminars and school campaigns must be organized.
- Partners: Associação Mais Cidadania ("More Citizenship") and Confederação Portuguesa de Voluntariado ("Association of Volunteers").
- Funding: EEA Grant.
- Read more: Democracy for youth people in Portugal.
- Toolkit:“Connected with #citizenship.”
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Seminar on Children's Rights (2016)
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- Aim: Discuss on how to teach human rights to children.
- Activities: Human Rights Academy (MRA) organized a three-day seminar in Lisbon for psychologists, teachers and social workers .
- Partners: ARISCO.
- Funding: EEA Grant.
- Read more: Seminar on Children’s rights.
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We Stand for Human Rights! (2014)
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- Aim: Stimulate more and better the human rights education in the school system and the Portuguese community.
- Activities: Organizing courses for a number of target groups, including for disadvantaged youth.
- Partners: Dinamo and the Teachers College in Lisbon.
- Funding: EEA Grant.
- Read more:
Dinamo webpage (Portuguese).
Council of Europe webpage (English).
Resource for teachers - Compass (English).
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Other activities
Norwegian-Portuguese cooperation (2018)
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- Aim: Strengthen cooperation between Norway and the recipient countries.
- Activities: The conference for Norwegian-Portuguese cooperation was held in Lisbon. More than 200 collaborative projects in many different areas have been completed in Portugal.
- Partners: ARISCO and Dinamo.
- Funding: EEA Grant.
- Read more: Norwegian-Portuguese cooperation.
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