SHARING THE DATA OF OUR 33 MAPS ON THE STATE OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS IN NORWAY
These are the people we interviewed last year.
We put them on the map because they make a difference for children.
With the whole class we investigate:
What do our parents do? And the
neighbours?
THE SECOND ONE FRIDAY 18 AUGUST 2023, 11.00 - 12.00
ABOUT THE PROGRESS INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN MAKING OVER THE LAST YEAR AND WHICH NEW INDIVIDUALS WE HAVE PUT ON OUR MAPS
These are the people that really made a difference last year.
With the whole class we investigate: What do our parents do? And the neighbours?
Who will be the new people we can add to our maps this year?
Johan H. Andresen
Chair, Council on Ethics
Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global
Every young person who once they get their frst paycheck, and is engaged in an a important issue, should use their power and ask their pension fund what they as shareholder is doing about that same issue.
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Åsmund Aukrust
Member of Parliament - Arbeiderpartiet
Showing solidarity is very important!
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IF THOSE WHO ARE NOT PRESENT IN THE PHYSICAL SPACE ARE FROM THEIR VIRTUAL POSITIONS TO CONTRIBUTE ON THE SAME FOOTING AS THOSE PRESENT IN THE PHYSICAL, THE OVERALL ENGAGEMENT IS GOING TO SUFFER
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Nancy Njenge
Sam Feinburg
Executive Director and Chief
Operating Officer, Helena Los Angeles, USA
MPhil Global Health & Human Rights Defender Bergen, Norway
Shoaib Durrazai Journalist, Norway
Julia Eikeland ECentral Board AUF Labour’s Youth Party Norway
Vladislav Kaim
UN Secretary General's Youth Climate Advisor Malmö, Sweden
Sebastian Berger
Executive DirectorGlobal Student Forum Brussels, Belgium
Natia Chkhetiani
Sustainability advisor at Seema AS Oslo, Norway
Samra Halilović
Nazifa Jalali
Deputy Director CRCO Harstad Norway
Ivanna Malchevska Project Manager Center for Civil Liberties Kyiv, Ukraine
Srebrenica Memorial Center , Bosnia and Herzegovina
Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi Anti-radicalization expert Pakistan
Katerina Slivoska Project Manager OHRID North Macedonia
Selvia Ayyu Netra Human Rights Defender, Genesis Benkulu Indonesia
Nidal Benali
ICESCO Youth Peace Ambassador Morocco
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Nazifa Jalali
Deputy Director CRCO Harstad Norway
Nancy Njenge
MPhil Global Health & Human Rights Defender Bergen, Norway
Shoaib Durrazai Journalist, Norway
Julia Eikeland
ECentral Board AUF
Labour’s Youth Party Norway
Natia Chkhetiani
Sustainability advisor at Seema AS Oslo, Norway
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Natia Chkhetiani is a co- founder and leader of the Oslo-based international non-profit organization
“Be. Long - the Center of Belonging and Sustainability” which is working to build communities with human belonging and care for the earth at the heart.
Natia has been working with different aspects of sustainable development through research, politics, business, and volunteer work in Norway and Georgia her entire career. She is currently working as a sustainability and inclusion advisor at the Center of Diversity Management in Norway.
She is also a former activist and the president of a youth political organization in Georgia and a survivor of 22. July terror attack on Utøya in 2011, where she was representing Georgia as an international guest.c
OSLO, NORWAY
Natia Chkhetiani
Sustainability advisor at Seema AS Oslo, Norway
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Nancy Njenge
MPhil Global Health & Human Rights Defender Bergen, Norway
Nancy Njenge is a 25 year old human rights defender from Zimbabwe. She started her activism work as a student leader at the National University of Science and Technology in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe where she advocated for affordable and accessible education. She was elected into the Student Representative Council in her second year. In 2019, she was elected the Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) Gender Secretary at a national level (2019-2021). ZINASU is the biggest, and only independent students Union that has stood up against oppression and fought for democracy, respect of fundamental freedoms and human rights.
Nancy got to partner with several civil society organisations on women and youth issues, social and economic justice as well as democracy and human rights. She was persecuted by the regime a number of times and was arrested and detained for speaking out on several occasions. Her outstanding work as a female human rights defender got her opportunities to contribute to various individuals and organisations that work for the protection and support of human rights defenders, for example the UN Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Assembly and Association, Pan African Human Rights Defenders Network and many other organisations.
Nancy got a Students at Risk scholarship to Norway in 2022 and she had to leave Zimbabwe in May 2022 for Uganda, she was issued with a warrant of arrest 2 days after leaving and could not go back home, therefore she came straight to Norway and is yet to go back due to fear of being jailed.
Nancy is currently studying a Masters in Global Health at the University of Bergen and hopes to continue doing her work in the human rights field until the world is a better place.
BERGEN, NORWAY
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Journalist, human rights activist Shoaib Durrazai is a journalist and a human rights activist from Pakistan’s Balochistan province. Having worked with several media outlets in the region, his work has focused on conflict in Balochistan. Shoaib graduated in Mass Communication from the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences, and Technology. Durrazai started his journalistic career in 2012, working at the Daily Tawar, a local print media group, where he wrote columns about Balochistan’s social, political, and human rights issues. Many of the columnists at the Daily Tawar were subjected to torture, disappearance, and even assassination until the media outlet was banned by the Pakistan’s government. Balochistan is one of the most dangerous parts of Pakistan and many local journalists and human rights defenders have suffered persecution, imprisonment, and death. Following this, Shoaib worked at Samaa News, a private media group, for two years, following which he briefly worked at Bol News, another online media outlet. From 2018 and until his arrival in Norway, Durrazai worked as district correspondent for ARY news. His work has been published in the Balochistan Point, the Daily Express, Pak Voices, Laaltin, the Monthly Sahig Magazine, and the Daily Asap. Shoaib was also a member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and the Karachi Union of Journalists. In September 2022, Shoaib Durrazai and his family arrived in Bergen, Norway where he is the City’s eight ICORN resident. To find out more about Durrazai, follow his Twitter account
Shoaib Durrazai Journalist, Norway
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Julia Eikeland
ECentral Board AUF
Labour’s Youth Party
Norway
Julia Eikeland is 22 years old and sits on the central board of AUF, the Labor Party’s youth party. She is today responsible for the international policy and projects of the AUF, including the collaboration with sister organizations around the world. Julia has been working to put international issues and conflicts more on the political agenda in Norway, and in particular to get even more young people involved in important issues.
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Nazifa Jalali is from Zabul, Afghanistan, living in Harstad, Norway. Jalali is a religious scholar and writer. She is the deputy director of CRCO and member of the HRD+ Network. She has worked in 28 provinces of Afghanistan with national and international NGOs. She has traveled to several countries and participated in many political talks with the Taliban as the Afghan women’s representative. One of those talks was the Oslo talk. An international documentary about Nazifa’s activities in Afghanistan was released in 2022.
Deputy Director CRCO Harstad Norway
HARSTAD , NORWAY
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Nazifa Jalali
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Sebastian Berger Executive Director -
Global Student Forum Brussels, Belgium
Sebastian Berger is the Executive Director of the Global Student Forum (GSF). He previous held the office of Vice President in the European Students’ Union (ESU) and was a founding member of the GSF Steering Committee. Sebastian has been active in the international student movement for years, holding various leadership positions on the local, national and international level. He currently holds the Co-Chairmanship of the Education and Academia Stakeholder Group in the United Nations, engaging with the monitoring and review of the Sustainable Development Goals through the annual High Level Political Forum and representing the global education sector in the UN ECOSOC framework.
Alongside his activism in higher education politics, he serves as a trustee and as the treasurer of Nobel peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi’s 100 Million Foundation, hosting the 100 Million Campaign through which Sebastian advocates for access to quality education for all and putting an end to child labor. As the former national spokesperson of the Green Party student wing in Austria he has a strong background in the environmental justice movement. Sebastian holds a Bachelor’s degree in political science from University of Vienna and a Master’s degree in International Relations, Strategy and Security from NUP Cyprus.
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Vladislav Kaim is a published young Moldovan economist, analyst, and climate action and sustainability advocate. He is specialized on matters such as green jobs for youth, just transition, trade-sustainability nexus, and the reforms to the multilateral climate finance agenda. Currently he is an Expert Consultant on Youth Engagement in the NDCs Process for Paris Agreement at UNDP.
As the UN Secretary General’s first Youth Climate Advisor, Vladislav co-led the effort on a youth-friendly implementation of Mr Guterres’ Climate Strategy, particularly on solutions related to a just transition and climate finance. He also was the first lead on green jobs at the official youth constituency to the UNFCCC, spearheading the preparatory work for the Green Jobs for Youth Pact – an initiative initiated by the ILO, UNEP, and UNICEF Generation Unlimited with the view of creating 1 million new green jobs with the existing employers. In the IKEA Young Leaders Forum, he co-authored the first ever youth opinion for the company’s Annual Sustainability Report.
Vladislav previously employed his expertise and advocacy acumen as an IMF Youth Fellow and Young European Ambassador. He is the holder of the 2015 Best Moldovan Student in Diaspora distinction and 2021 finalist of the Swedish King’s Scholarship for Value- Based Leadership.
Vladislav Kaim
UN Secretary General's Youth Climate Advisor Malmö, Sweden
MALMO , SWEDEN
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Sam Feinburg Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, Helena
Los Angeles, USA
Sam Feinburg is the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of Helena, a problem-solving institution that addresses urgent societal issues through for-profit, non-profit, and legislative action.
Sam is also a co-founder at Helena Special Investments (HSI), Helena’s investment arm - which backs companies addressing critical global problems like plastics pollution, chronic disease, and climate change. Past investments include Energy Vault (NYSE: $NRGV), Heliogen (NYSE: $HLGN), and Twin Health.
Outside of Helena, Sam serves as Social Entrepreneur in Residence at The Boston Consulting Group, and helped to create Yale’s Young Global Scholars program in Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. In 2014, Sam won the World Schools Debating Championships as a member of the England Debate Team.
Sam left Yale University after two years alongside Henry Elkus to work on Helena full time.
LOS ANGELES , USA
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Nidal Benali is a Moroccan youth activist, peace ambassador, and international relations professional. He has been recognized for his leadership as the Global Focal Point of The Major Group of Children and Youth - UN, from 2020 to 2022, where he to shaping the global policy agenda on youth issues. Nidal was also nominated last year, as a peace ambassador for the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO). He is the founder of the Moroccan Local Youth Councils Network, which aims to empower young people to participate in decision-making processes and contribute to sustainable development. Currently, Nidal works in the International Relations Department at the International University of Rabat, where he contributes to strengthening the university’s global partnerships and promoting cross-cultural dialogue.
Benali ICESCO Youth Peace Ambassador Morocco
Nidal
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Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi is a multi award- winning social activist. Working for 15 years in peacebuilding, social innovation, participatory research, inclusive community development and tech for well-being - he has gained a rich experience of working with diverse communities across Pakistan and globally.
As founder of social- impact organization HIVE Pakistan – he has spearheaded over 50 initiatives that have impacted tens of millions of young people since 2008. He has won several competitive international awards like the UN Headquarters and BMW Group’s Intercultural Innovation Award 2017 and the Nelson Mandela Graça Machel Award 2021.
Ali is one of the ten young leaders handpicked by the former General Secretary of the United Nations, Kofi Annan to co-lead Extremely Together - a global movement to prevent extremism.
A documentary made on his counter- extremism work titled ‘Pakistan: The New Radicals’ aired on Al-Jazeera English. He takes keen interest in poetry, psychology, and politics.
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Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi Anti-radicalization expert
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My name is Samra Halilović. I was born in Tuzla on September 20, 1998. I finished primary and secondary school in Srebrenica. I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Political Science, majoring in International Relations and Diplomacy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As a student of Political Science, I had the opportunity to attend the International Scientific Conference & Religion, Secularism and Politics, the Public Debate TOGETHER WE ARE EUROPE, which was organized by the European Union in Bosnia and Herzegovina. My areas of interest are: human rights, non- discrimination, the fight against racial and religious intolerance, the fight to preserve national identity, hate speech in the media and media monitoring, as well as political, social and historical topics. I am currently in the position of an interviewer within the oral history projects at the Srebrenica Memorial Center, I check transcripts and their verification, I take care of documenting completed oral history stories and their adequate storage, and I work on making transcripts.
Samra Halilović
Srebrenica Memorial Center , Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Katerina Slivoska Project Manager OHRID North Macedonia
I’m Katerina Slivoska, a 27 year old Project Coordinator at Ohrid Institute for Economic Strategies and International Affairs which is an NGO from North Macedonia and I’m an educator and lead coordinator, for the following schools for young people: School of Activism and Artivism; School for Creative Writing; School of No Hate Speech; School of Good Governance and School of Anti-Corruption. I’ve designed educational programs and training, been involved in many national, regional and international projects focused on the participation of youth, where the Ohrid Institute has been a partner, I’ve had the opportunity to share knowledge and expertise with over 300 young people inNorth Macedonia and throughout Europe. I’ve organized and led Master classes for young leaders where the project’s values focus on the importance on Equality, Diversion and inclusion policy.
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I’m Jannantun Nayeem Prity, a writer, artist, and human rights activist currently residing in Cité internationale des arts, Paris. I pursued my undergraduate degree in Fine Art with a focus on Arts and Crafts at Jahangirnagar University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. My coursework covered a broad range of subjects including Figure Drawing, Set Design, Tapestry, Screen- Print, Wood Carving, and so on.
However, during my final year of study, I faced oppression from the Bangladeshi government under the Digital Security Act, a highly controversial blasphemy law, which led me to flee the country in response to ongoing death and rape threats from both ruling party extremists and fundamentalists.
Despite this, I’ve published 11 books with renowned publishers in Bangladesh(the last one has been banned from the biggest bookfair in Bangladesh on February 2023) and have received numerous awards from various institutions there. I had my first open studio exhibition at Cité internationale des arts on 6th April, 2022, author talk in the human rights festival by Rapolitics in Aarhus, Denmark on 2022, digital art exhibition and author’s talk on 16th March, 2023 at Bibliotheque Canopee, Paris.
Jannatun Nayeem Prity Writer,
artist, activist Bangladesh
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Ivanna Malchevska Project Manager Center for Civil Liberties Kyiv, Ukraine
Ivanna Malchevska is project manager of the Center for Civil Liberties and coordinator of the
OZON Public Monitoring Group. We monitor police actions on peaceful assemblies (whether they violate the right to peaceful assembly), courts and local authorities.
The OZON public monitoring group is an initiative of the Center for Civil Liberties, which carries out public control over the activities of law enforcement agencies, courts, and local self-government in various regions of Ukraine. Volunteers monitor the provision of freedom of peaceful assembly and prepare recommendations for state authorities and international organizations. Since 2018, the initiative has also been monitoring the effectiveness of investigating cases of pressure and persecution of civil society activists in Kyiv and the regions. With the beginning of a full-scale war, OZON volunteers joined in documenting war crimes. And from November 2022, OZON launched the National Campaign of monitoring bomb shelters to help the authorities solve problems in the civil system.
The initiative is active in different regions of the country and brings together ordinary people, regardless of legal knowledge or special experience to exercise civilian control over the actions of the authorities. We believe that every citizen of Ukraine can practice public control over the government.
I am Selvia Ayyu Netra, 27 years old from Indonesia. Popularly known as Selviahaynet. I am a woman human rights defender from Bengkulu, Indonesia. I graduated from Non formal Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Bengkulu University.Currently I am Gender Justice and Economi Creative Division in Genesis Bengkulu. Genesis Bengkulu is one of the partners of the Norwegian Human Rights Fund (NHRF) in Indonesia. I works on improving the capacity of women groups at the village level who struggle defending their land rights and facing the environmental degradation caused by the extractive
Selvia Ayyu Netra Human Rights Defender, Genesis Benkulu Indonesia
My main focus is to develop and enhance a learning class for the women at the village level. This learning class was set up as a forum for women’s struggle and resistance to extractive industry, in particular the mining and large scale plantation operation, that has existed in their village. In this learning class, I facilitates women’s group to learn many things such as learning about gender, land rights, counter-strategy, environment, organizing and learning to write to better express their own expression. My vision is that the women in village are able to expression their own voice and thoughts.
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Jørgen W. Frydnes Administrator and politician, Norway
KRISTIAN KAMPMANN
Lars Gudmundson coordinator EWC Board and the policies of the Council of Europe and Norway
Lana Estemirova Presentator and journalists, London, UK
Aarti Narsee Feminist, journalist, policy and advocacy officer. London, UK
Hector Ulloa Student, leadership, human rights. Honduras
Co-owner and an Associate Partner at Dalberg Media. Head of Secretariat at UNLEASH , Denmark
Hajer Sharief Libyan peace and human rights activist. Libya, Afrika
Felicia Anthonio Campaigner for the #KeepItOn Campaign. Ghana, Afrika
Debora Barletta International yought worker
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henny aurora stromme Ambassodor for no hate speech movement. Norway
Hayat al-Sharif Photojournalist. Yemen
Painter and street artist, first ICORN resident in Lyon City of Refuge, Yemen
Dawit Seto
COntemporary dancer and Choreographer. Ethiopia, Afrika
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Lars Gudmundson coordinator EWC Board and the policies of the Council of Europe and Norway
henny aurora stromme Ambassodor for no hate speech movement. Norway
Jørgen W. Frydnes Administrator and politician, Norway
