Hi all, Brief reminder that the conversation hour for #WikiForHumanRights starts in 2 hours at 1500 UTC. If you are interested in organizing for this next year, we hope to see you there,
Cheers, Alex S. On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 2:41 PM Alex Stinson <astin...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Apologies for cross posting -- join us to Decmber 14th to learn more! > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Alex Stinson <astin...@wikimedia.org> > Date: Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 2:39 PM > Subject: December 14 Conversation hour about organizing for > #WikiForHumanRights 2022 > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org> > > > > *TL:DR --* Join us for a Conversation hour December 14 at 1500 UTC to > learn how to organize for WikiForHumanRights 2022. > > Hello Everyone! > > #WikiForHumanRights: Right to a Healthy Environment 2022 [1]is back! From > April > 15 through to June 14 2022 we encourage local affiliates, individuals or > organizations interested in the campaign to organize activities around the > intersecting themes of human rights and the environment. > > If you are interested in organizing your community for the campaign, > please join us for a conversation hour on December 14 at 1500 UTC [4] > (more details below) to learn how you can participate. > > > Why the Right to a Healthy Environment? > > This October, the Right to a Healthy Environment was formally recognized > [1] by the United Nations Human Rights Council. According to Michelle > Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: > > "A safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is the foundation of > human life. But today, because of human action – and inhuman inaction – the > triple planetary crises of climate change, pollution, and nature loss is > directly and severely impacting a broad range of rights, including the > rights to adequate food, water, education, housing, health, development, > and even life itself."[2] > > The environmental crisis is getting more complex. Humanity needs to make > thousands of big and small decisions to address it. As the UN Environmental > Program described it, we need to make “Peace with Nature”[3] and protect > the human rights of the most vulnerable. > > Wikipedia and other platforms need to fill the knowledge gaps at the > intersection of sustainability and human rights in every context and > language. The world needs access to reliable information about the link > between environmental sustainability and human rights. > > What can you do? Help us organize! > > We need your help! The campaign will officially launch on April 15 (one > week before Earth Day), but we need your help now to begin preparing this > global call to action. > > Last year we had 24 community-led editathons, workshops, webinars, and > writing contests, with contributions to over 2000 articles in more than 40 > languages. To match (and hopefully exceed) these impacts, we need your help > to organize your local communities! > > Activities related to human rights and sustainability are good topics for > local communities to both a) identify new partners, b) recruit enthusiastic > participants and c) fill key topics for impact in their own language or > context. > > Join the Conversation to learn more! > > Join us for 1.5 hours of conversation Tuesday the 14th December 2021 > 15:00 UTC on Zoom <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84871090509> [4], to learn > more about: > > - > > How you can participate in this campaign and organize local events in > your community or region. > - > > Which topics this campaign will target, and how you can connect with > subject matter experts, partners, and other resources to support successful > content creation activities. > - > > How the Wikimedia Foundation Campaigns team can support you in > designing your event and doing targeted outreach to potential contributors > drawn to these topics. > > Organizers can find more information at this (still under development): page > on Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights>[5] > > If you want to join us as an organizer, please join our Telegram Group > <https://t.me/joinchat/k_W9SVMG5K44YjJh>[6] > > If you have any questions send us an email at campai...@wikimedia.org > > > Looking forward to hearing you in the conversation, > > Ruby Damenshie-Brown and Alex Stinson > > > > [1] https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/10/1102582 > > [2] > https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=27443 > > [3] https://www.unep.org/interactive/making-peace-nature/ > > [4] https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84871090509 > > [5]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights > > [6] https://t.me/joinchat/k_W9SVMG5K44YjJh > > -- > Alex Stinson > Senior Program Strategist > Wikimedia Foundation > Twitter: @sadads > > Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other > Wikimedia projects create calls to action to invite new contributors > through campaigns: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns > > > -- > Alex Stinson > Senior Program Strategist > Wikimedia Foundation > Twitter: @sadads > > Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other > Wikimedia projects create calls to action to invite new contributors > through campaigns: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns > -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: @sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects create calls to action to invite new contributors through campaigns: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns
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