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Youth Activism for HIV Prevention & Human Rights

10-day campaign involving peer-to-peer approach, advocacy, and capacity building for youth in HIV/AIDS prevention and human rights promotion. Activities included flash mobs, photo campaigns, performances for orphan children, video production, and organizational development training.

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Youth Activism for HIV Prevention & Human Rights

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  1. “10 days of activism”: 1-10 December 2010

  2. Objectives Increasing the involvement of youth in programmes based on peer-to-peer approach and focused on human rights, HIV/AIDS prevention, healthy life style Strengthening capacity of young people maintenance health Advocacy of the youth peer-to-peer approach

  3. Implementing NGOs Joint Funding • “Siberian initiative” (Barnaul) • “Est’ mnenie” / “Kompas” (Chelyabinsk) • “Svetlana Izambaeva Fund” (Kazan) • “Youth theater Light” (Samara) • “Stimul” (Stavropol) • “Kuzbass against AIDS” (Kemerovo) • Irkutsk Red Cross • UBW • UNFPA Russia CO cor-funds • UHCHR Russia • Local NGOs recourses

  4. Key December’s Decade

  5. World AIDS Day In main universities students were photographed with Red Ribbon. By these photos young people expressed their support of HIV prevention activities and willingness to take part in it. All photos were loaded on NGO’s web-sites, most popular social network Vkontakte.ru, mass-media recourses. Flash mobs and actions in night clubs were conducted as well. http://vkontakte.ru/topic-21599956_23686713 http://vkontakte.ru/album-21599956_121586864 http://www.vkonline.ru/article/61382.html http://www.mnenie.org/10_dnej_aktivizma.html http://www.nevkadre.ru/album_664_1.html forum.tltrock.ru/index.php?showtopic=20011 samlife.ru/category/teatr

  6. World AIDS Day Totally about 13,000 young people were covered, all of them received information materials on HIV/AIDS prevention published under this activity. It’s important to highlight that all of young people could load their photos from web-sites that contained information on HIV/AIDS as well. The special postcards and banners with the photos of young people with Red Ribbon were published and disseminated among youth on 1st December. Banners were put up on the streets at the informal meeting points of young people.

  7. International Volunteer Day In all regions volunteers conducted special performances for abandon children in orphanages, including children living with HIV. Abandon children were provided with presents that had been collected by young people in universities. http://www.mnenie.org/eto_deti_-_ih_ne_nuzhno_boyatsya.html

  8. International Human Rights Day Produced and shown on local TV and web-sites videos with youth opinions on youth rights. Conducted round tables on youth rights with participation of young people, local decision makers and mass-media. Published and disseminated information material on youth rights. http://www.kompas-chel.ru/files/prava_cheloveka.wmv http://www.kompas-chel.ru/files/osobennie_prava_molodezhi.wmv http://www.kompas-chel.ru/files/narushenie_prav.wmv http://vkontakte.ru/video.php?gid=21599956 http://vkontakte.ru/events.php?act=s&gid=22690771 http://vkontakte.ru/album-21599956_122958384 http://www.infohome-altai.ru/node/3209 http://www.infohome-altai.ru/node/3234 http://www.asi.org.ru/ASI3/rws_asi.nsf/va_WebPages/AC82CF18A06EF457C32577EA0044CBC6Rus

  9. Special Activities Network training on organizational development was conducted by Y-Peer recourse center “Siberian initiative” in Barnaul for 19 participants (youth volunteers and youth coordinators) from Y-Peer NGOs from 9 regions. The Art project “Right for the health” was launched in Irkutsk by Irkutsk Red Cross. This additional initiative was co-financed by UNHCR and is focused on advocacy of human rights of vulnerable populations. One of the most famous local photographer made photos in prisons, streets, etc of Irkutsk. 90 people (including city Government, Police Department, Health Department, Federal Drug Service, mass-media, etc) were participating at the launch of the exhibition. Till May 2011 the exhibition will be presented in different regions of Irkutsk oblast. 2,000.00 US $ were fundraised at the launch – these funds will be spent to buy additional equipment for the crisis flat service (stitching machine that will be used by women to sew clothes for themselves, and for sale as well). http://www.redcross-irkutsk.org/ru/news/news-174/full.html http://www.redcross-irkutsk.org/ru/gallery/gallery-58/showGallery.html

  10. Other Results About 50 publications in mass-media on youth rights, HIV/AIDS and volunteers approach were published. More than 70 young people have becoming leaders – managers and coordinators of implemented activities. “10 days of activism” facilitated other comprehensive volunteers and civil society activities in the regions – for example forum of volunteers organizations “Active 74” in Chelyabinsk.

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