SGI at Human Rights Education Forum in Hungary

From December 9 to 11, Elisa Gazzotti, program coordinator for Human Rights Education of the SGI Office for UN Affairs, participated in the Human Rights Education Forum titled “Unleashing Human Rights - A forum to further universal human rights education for, with and by young people” in Budapest, Hungary. The event was co-organized by the Council of Europe and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) with the support of the SGI (Soka Gakkai International) and other organizations.

On December 11, Amnesty International and the SGI co-organized a workshop featuring the documentary “Changemakers: Stories of Young Human Rights Educators,” which they jointly created with OHCHR. Five of the human rights educators featured in the film shared their activities, and participants discussed topics including the power of art in inspiring youth and ways to extend human rights education to socially marginalized young people.