Projects in Portugal

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.
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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.