The United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner calls application for UN OHCHR Third Human Rights Youth Challenge 2020. The Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation is organizing the Third Human Rights Youth Challenge and invites youth aged between 18 to 23 years to create an original submission and youth aged between 24 and 32 years to submit a 2000 word essay on “privatization and the human rights to water and sanitation”.

Prizes

The Special Rapporteur will invite the winner to join and speak at the 45th session of the Human Rights Council in September 2020. The winner will be invited to join the Special Rapporteur at a side-event of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, September 2020

Eligibilities 

• Human Rights Youth Challenge 2020 is open to youth aged 15 to 32 from around the world.
• Participants aged between 24 and 32 will be required to submit an essay as their solution.
• Youth below age 24 are free to submit any format of their choice, following from the first two youth challenges.

Requirements 

• 15-23 years olds can show their knowledge, understanding, and passion about the human rights to water and sanitation by creating an original submission about the human rights to water and sanitation and uploading it to a social media network (Instagram, YouTube, Facebook or Twitter).
• 24 – 32 years old: The submission will be in the form of an essay focusing on one case study. Participants are free to choose a case, which focuses on various forms and models of private sector participation in the water and sanitation sector and analyze gaps in human rights protection and impact on the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation.
• Length of essay: 2,000 words in a word document including footnotes, page numbers, heading) The language of an essay must be English, Spanish, or French.

The deadline for the submission is 30 April 2020.
See more information on the challenge: EN, FR, ES