Equitas Shares it

Geared primarly towards human rights educators/defenders, Equitas Shares it! provides an array of tried and tested resources drawn from Equitas’ extensive practice in human rights education including products created through joint reflections with Equitas’ alumni. Some examples include participatory training techniques, facilitation tip sheets, and human rights reference sheets.  

Aligned with our Theory of Change, the Equitas Shares It! posts describe lessons learned and good practices to strengthen leadership for advancing human rights, with regards to gender equality and in community life; to strengthen human rights movements; and to improve the practice of human rights educators to engage and influence decision makers around human rights. They are organized according to the six following categories: Supporting participation; Engaging decision makers ; Evaluating human rights education; Promoting non-discrimination and equality ; Skills and tools for human rights educators ; Building knowledge about human rights.

These practices are at the core of our human rights education work which aims to contribute to the empowerment of groups subject to discrimination, exclusion and other forms of human rights violations, in particular women, children and youth. Read more about the impact our approach to human rights education has around the world here.  

Lessons learned and good practices on creating opportunities for individuals in all their dynamic diversity to share ideas and opinions and support their full participation society.  

Showcasing the Powerful Voices of Youth

This video presents the key messages and takeaways from the 2021 EquiTalks event hosted by Equitas with Jayathma Wickramanayake, the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy for Youth, as guest of honour.

Four principles for promoting the inclusion of people living with disabilities

Lessons learned to make our community actions more inclusive and promote the full participation of people living with disabilities.

6 key lessons make your baseline study participatory and inclusive

Lessons learned from Equitas’ contextual analysis in the context of the Advancing Equality through Human Rights Education project.

Lessons learned and good practices on building dialogue, challenging power imbalance, and strengthening relationships between individuals and decision-makers.  

Assessing the impact of violence on women’s participation

An activity in which participants explore the impact of violence on women’s participation in decision-making.

Reflections from alumni: How to address shrinking civic space

Lessons learned from the 2018 online conversation with Equitas’ alumni about increasing barriers faced by civil society in human rights work.

Lessons learned and good practices on evaluating human rights education work. 

A five-step process to evaluating human rights education inititatives

Equitas’ model for designing and implementing an effective evaluation process for human rights training.

Participatory technique: Collective memories

Collective memories are a useful technique to support critical thinking and debrief activities with youth.

Lessons learned and good practices on working with communities who face the most barriers to non-discrimination, equality, and equity including, but not limited to, women and girls, children and youth, Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC), LGBTQ2I persons, people living with disabilities, refugees and migrants, and the many intersections of these identities.  

Race to Inclusion

This booklet was created to celebrate National Child Day and to support children in learning more about their rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This year we are focusing on the right to be and to feel included regardless of identity.

What is Fair? 
 

A dynamic activity for young people to reflect on giving everyone the same opportunities to succeed. 

Reflexions from alumni : Challenges and strategies for gender equality

Lessons learned from the 2019 International Human Rights Training Program on challenges and strategies to promote gender equality through human rights education.

Lessons learned and good practices on supporting individuals to develop their leadership capacity, build knowledge and skills to claim their rights and hold decision makers accountable for decisions that affect them.  

Using a children’s rights-based approach to create a zine

 Reflections on taking a children’s-rights based approach to creating a zine 

Join Equitas in celebrating National Child Day on November 20th!

An activity for children to build their knowledge on their rights protected by the Canadian Charter of the Rights of the Child.

Facilitating in a virtual world

A tipsheet for facilitating participatory activities and meetings online.

Lessons learned and good practices on connecting human rights education work to national, regional and international human rights protection, enforcement and monitoring systems. 

National Child Day activity

A special children’s activity to learn about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Children’s Rights Leadership Cards

An innovative way for children to learn about their rights and take action in their community.

Analyzing the definition of torture 

An activity in which participants develop an understanding of what is and is not defined as torture within the scope of the United Nations Convention against Torture.