Global Citizenship for Human Rights - Human Rights Heroes

  Lawyer, Esma YURT (Turkey) Which projects/works you have participated in the field of human rights? Actually, we start working on Human Rights since our birth, because our mother's struggle to give birth to us or to feed us and giving us her love is actually counted Human Rights. If I need to specify my answer with projects; when I was a student at İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim University I was the founder of İZÜ ÖĞRENCİ TOPLULUĞU. (İZÜ STUDENT SOCIETY). We started to support the village and medium schools in the Southeast for education together with friends from different faculties. By preparing gifts such as boots, coats, scarves, berets, eld, school bag, stationery set, the 4-person Team from Istanbul communicated with the university students in the Southeast region and went to the schools to make activities and professional promotion by establishing a team of 30 people. We carried out joint projects by combining vehicles and manpower at the university in the region, taking w

  ITALIAN HUMAN RIGHTS FIGHTERS: MARCO CAPPATO Marco Cappato, 49, member of the "Luca Coscioni" association.   Its commitment to human rights focuses in particular on the rights of the untreated or terminally ill. Over the last few years he has been the protagonist of numerous battles in favor of the freedom of choice of assisted suicide by sick people, without the possibility of healing and in the throes of intolerable suffering. This battle also included civil disobedience consisting in accompanying several people who had applied for assisted suicide to Switzerland. Marco Cappato practices non-violent struggle.

  MICHELLE BACHELET (b. 1951) Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria   is a Chilean politician who has served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights since 2018. She has a long history of activism. In 1975, she was detained and tortured for weeks after speaking out against Chile’s military dictatorship. She went on to serve as Chile’s president from 2006-2010 and 2014-2018. for the Socialist Party of Chile. She is the first woman to hold the Chilean presidency. After leaving the presidency in 2010 and while not immediately reelectable, 2011, Bachelet was appointed as the first Executive Director of UN Women - the newly created UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women - where she stayed until announcing her second presidential run in 2013. She focused, inter alia, on economic empowerment, tackling violence against women, and women's participation in security issues, including through Security Council Resolution 1325. She has recently pledged to be

  NADIA MURAD (b. 1993) Nadia Murad was born into a farming family in Kojo, Iraq. She belongs to the Yazidi ethnic and religious minority. On August 2014, Murad’s village of Kawjū (Kocho) was captured by ISIL. The men, including six of Murad’s brothers, were massacred. Some older women, including Murad’s mother, were also killed. The rest of the women, including Murad, were taken to Mosul, Iraq, the largest city held by ISIL at the time, to be marketed as sex slaves. Murad was bought and sold several times before escaping in November 2014. A fter escaping, she began her life as an activist. On 16 December 2015, Murad spoke to the United Nations Security Council about human trafficking and conflict. This was the first time the Council was ever briefed on human trafficking. She spread awareness about human trafficking and refugees, despite the dangers of speaking out. In 2016 the UN appointed her Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. She

  YOUTH INITIATIVE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) is a regional network of non-governmental organisations with programmes in Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. The headquarters of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights are situated in Belgrade, Zagreb, Podgorica, Sarajevo and Prishtina. Since their foundation in 2003, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights has been fighting for the same values. The basic values of the Initiative are truth, justice, accountability, equality, freedom, democracy and peace. The focus of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights is on societies and citizens, above all the youth, who are least familiar with the events and war crimes committed during the 1990s, where nationalist ideologies, which led to wars and where all sides celebrate their war criminals as “heroes”, still prevail. The regional network of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights has won numerous national and international awards, i