Projects in Portugal

Aim: increase young people's knowledge of human rights, and promote actions in defense of human rights.

Aim: Develop active citizenship and strengthen democracy in Portugal.

Aim: Discuss on how to teach human rights to children.

Aim: Stimulate more and better the human rights education in the school system and the Portuguese community.

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.