The Fourth Human Rights Youth Challenge on Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation from the UN Human Rights

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is launching the Fourth Human Rights Youth Challenge. Youth aged between 16 - 24 are invited to produce and submit a 2-3 minute video on the "impact of climate change on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation". 

Challenge Background:-

• The water and sanitation sector is in need of new ideas on how to raise awareness that access to water and sanitation are human rights. 
• Youth, with their creativity and different ways of thinking and expressing, can contribute to bringing innovation to this sector and advancing a much needed paradigm shift from the traditional focus on infrastructure, technology and finance to one with people at the centre. 
• In order to involve and to hear from youth in this paradigm shift, the series of Human Rights Youth Challenge, organized by the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, is an opportunity for youth to show knowledge, understanding and passion about the human rights to water and sanitation by creating original content.

About the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights:-

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is the leading UN entity on human rights. It represents the world's commitment to the promotion and protection of the full range of human rights and freedoms set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The UN Human Rights has a mission of giving priority to addressing the most pressing human rights violations, both acute and chronic and focusing attention on those who are at risk and vulnerable on multiple fronts.

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• The UN Special Rapporteur will invite the winner to join him and to speak at a side event to the Human Rights Council in September 2021. 
• The winner will be announced in mid-June 2021.

• Youth aged between 16 -24 are eligible to participate. 
• The video must have a (2-5 minutes) duration with a focus on climate change and human rights to water and sanitation.
• The videos can be in any language with subtitles in (English, French, or Spanish).
• By submitting the video, participants agree to make the submissions public on the official webpage of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation.