Augusta Ada Byron (1815-1852) was a British mathematician, informatician and writer who is most famous for her work on the general-purpose computer. She was the first woman to write an algorithm for a computer machine. This is why she is …
Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) was a British naturalist who developed a theory of evolution based on natural selection. “He proposed that species can change over time, that new species come from pre-existing species, and that all species share a common …
Hedy was a Viennese actress and inventor who was very late acknowledged for her engineering work developing what is now known as Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) created as a Secret Communication System during the Second World War hand by …
Lilly Platt (2008-) is a Dutch girl, who is being raised in the UK, and who has been interested in the environment since 2015. Her ecologist journey began one day she was walking with her grandfather and they saw a …
Greta (2003-) is a young Swedish activist and environmentalist, who fights, among other things, against Global Warming. She became interested in this environmental issue when she was 8 years old, and it was in 2018 when she decided to take …
Esma Redzepova was born in 1943 in Skopje in the former Republic of Yugoslavia (nowadays the Republic of North Macedonia). She is known worldwide for being a singer and composer who gave more than 9,000 concerts all over the world …
Sofia Taikon was a Polish woman of Roma origin who was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943 during the Second World War by the Nazi forces. She was deported with her family because of their ethnic origin. One year …
Valya Balkanska is a traditional Bulgarian music singer from the Rodophe mountains in Southern Bulgaria. Valya was born in 1942 in Arda, a very small village from Smolyan province in the Rodophe mountains and is well-known in Bulgaria and in …
Judy Chicago is an American artist who was born in Chicago, Illinois in the United States in 1939. She is one of the pioneers in feminist art and she has performed in different fields of art such as painting, sculpture, …
De Wever was one of the youngest climate activists to sail on the Regina Maris to Santiago, Chile, to attend the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference in order to keep climate emissions low. Afterwards, they completed an internship with …
A campaign guide about education and learning for change in Diversity, Human Rights and Participation Companion (2007) is a guide created in the framework of the Council of Europe’s Youth Campaign for Diversity, Human Rights and Participation “All Different – …
Young Roma speak about multiple discrimination Barabaripen* (2014) includes life stories of nine young Roma affected by multiple discrimination in different parts of Europe – Albania, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain and the United Kingdom. The publication …
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. “If we do not believe …
Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. No one may be compelled to belong to an association. Freedom of peaceful assembly and association ensures that people can gather publicly and privately. These assemblies can be used …
Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. Everyone has the right to equal access to public service in his country. The will of the people shall be the …
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international cooperation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social, and cultural …
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. Everyone who works has …
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. So far the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has stated the right to freedom from slavery as well as the right …
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event …
Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to …
