Meet Alessia Ruta, a BA graduate in Political sciences, international relations, and human rights and the University of Padua, and coordinator of one of the Arqus Student co-designed projects that got funds in 2023 for the development of three workshops in Padua, Granada and Minho.
The Human Rights Café is a student-led initiative that has been running for two years at the University of Padua and is now aiming at expanding abroad.
It is organized by SET Padova, an association of cultural promotion that was funded in 2020 by Human Rights and Multilevel Governance students and is still fully managed by students and graduates from various courses of the Political Science, Law and International Studies department. In both years the project was financed by UniPd through the funds intended for Students’ Cultural Initiatives.
The format is simple: it consists of informal meetings that bring together bachelor, master and doctoral students, graduates, professors, professionals and citizens who are interested in human rights, regardless of their field of studies and their level of education, in order to have a discussion about human rights-related topics that vary at every session. A large variety of topics has been covered so far: how to get a job in human rights; how to export the human rights culture in non-human rights related working fields; how to be an efficient networker to get a job in international relations; shaping human-rights oriented communities; freedom of expression; the impact of thesis writing-related stress on students’ mental health (as a part of the right to health and the right to education); raising awareness on mental health being a part of the right to health in order to break the stigma around mental health issues; challenging the human rights paradigm in the fight for recognition of LGBTQIA+ rights.
More information about this initiative may be found here:
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21 авг 2024
