New subject: December 14 Conversation hour about organizing for #WikiForHumanRights 2022

1 Dec 2021

Apologies for cross posting -- join us to Decmber 14th to learn more!

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From: Alex Stinson &lt;astinson(a)wikimedia.org&gt;
Date: Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 2:39 PM
Subject: December 14 Conversation hour about organizing for
#WikiForHumanRights 2022
To: Wikimedia Mailing List &lt;wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;

*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:

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   How you can participate in this campaign and organize local events in
   your community or region.
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   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.
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   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 campaigns(a)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

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