10. Reduced inequalities

This digital story is about the power of communication to overcome discrimination. To give a richer approach to this topic on Human Rights, it is related with the SDGs of the UN, since quality education (SDG 4); reducing inequalities (SDG 10); peace, justice and strong institutions (SDG 16); and partnership for the goals (SDG 17) are required to erase discrimination.

This centre has not only helped me get a career but it has also given me work experience to kick-start my (professional) life, a few years later, I returned there to train young people in entrepreneurship and vocational integration.

If civil society organizations do not help policy makers to make the desired changes, we will not be able to easily improve our living conditions.

Our teacher asked us to do an assignment about Human Rights, what made my classmates realise the consequences of the way they were treating me.

It was sad but true that some jobs were considered as man’s jobs in her culture. But she felt that if she was capable of changing her parents’ attitude, she would also be capable of changing others’.

Achieving a decent life and at the same time protecting the forest has always been a challenge. In Honduras, Rosario says that contextualized education and training of youth in skills appropriate to the needs of their rural way of life and few resources to invest in machines, is the key to solve many problems.

Mathata is leading a group of community young people who kick the soccer ball to reduce the social challenges like teenage pregnancy, alcohol, rape, illiteracy, drugs and substance abuse. Mathata is working for the Mogaalakwena Football for Hope Centre.

My former student decided to go on an adventure with the help of his big brother. He sold his Diakarta motorbike to make a bit of money. But he ended up being extradited from Italy to Senegal. Now he rides a Diakarta motorbike just like before.

In this video by the student Sandro Silva, from Recife, Pernambuco, he reports that in his family and among his relatives and associates, there was no one with higher education in the neighbourhood.

More and more in my town I notice the massive transfer of children, pupils and apprentices to towns with strong cotton production. The children of the Toucountouna town are crying, help them.