Too Little, Too Polluted : Open Call for 5th Human Rights Youth Challenge For Global Water Crisis

Water touches every aspect of development. It drives economic growth, support healthy ecosystems, and is essential and fundamental for life itself.

Around the world, 2.2 billion people do not have access to safe drinking water, 4.2 billion do not have access to decent sanitation, and 3 billion do not have access to basic handwashing facilities. In many places, gaps in access to water supply and sanitation, growing populations, more water-intensive patterns of growth, increasing rainfall variability, and pollution are combined to make water one of the most severe threats to economic progress, poverty eradication, and sustainable development.

RELEVANT SUSTAINABLE GOALS

5th human rights youth challenge

On the occasion of World Toilet Day (19 November 2021), the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, Mr. Pedro Arrojo Agudo, is organizing the Fifth Human Rights Youth Challenge together with the Permanent Mission of Spain, the Permanent Mission of Germany, UN-Water, Franciscans International, International Rivers, Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN), World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Ulsan International Development Cooperation Center (UIDCC) and ONGAWA.

Youth aged between 16 – 24 are invited to produce and submit a video (v-log) or any other digital content on: “the human rights to water and sanitation of peoples living close to the nature” including, but not limited to, indigenous peoples, peasants, farmers, fisherfolks, hunters and gatherers, livestock rearers, and traders.

BENEFITS :

Prize 1 : winner will be invited to speak at a side-event of the UN Human Rights Council in September 2022 pending COVID19 restrictions (travel and accommodation will be paid).

Prize 2 : winner will be appointed as “Youth Advisor to the Special Rapporteur”
The winner will be announced on the World Water Day (22 March 2022)

Eligibility Criteria :

Age limit 16 – 24 years old
How to participate :
- Upload your short ( 2 – 5 minute) video (v-logs) or or other digital content.
- Include #Youth4Watsan and the hashtags that correspond yo your video / digital content : #connectwithWash, #accessWash, #equalWash, #aroundWash or #speakup4Wash
- submit the link to your video or other digital content by filling in this form. No other acknowledgment will be sent.

THE ROLE OF YOUTH ADVISOR :

The Youth Advisor to the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation will carry out certain activities with and under the guidance of the Special Rapporteur in championing the awareness among youth, notably on social media. TheYouth Advisor shall:

Advocate for the promotion of human rights to water and sanitation of indigenous peoples living in rural areas through social media;

Advise the Special Rapporteur from the perspective of youth on his activities;
Promote and strengthen youth capacity on advocating human rights to water and sanitation

The submission deadline is 15 February 2022 midnight ( time in Geneva / Switzerland) and can be in any language, with subtitles in English, French or Spanish.

For More information visit: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/WaterAndSanitation/SRWater/Pages/YouthChallenge.aspx

Please do not ask for confirmation by email. After the submission deadline, a list of received submissions will be available on the @SRWatsan for confirmation

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