Where We Stand Today
Here is what is next:
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Advisory Group: We are setting up an advisory group made of youth and experts—bringing together people directly impacted by human rights issues, donors, and experts to help guide the way forward.
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The ELEVATE Model of Action and Support: We are refining our model of action, actively seeking lived experiences and insights from diverse perspectives to ensure it is inclusive, contextually relevant, rooted in evidence-based for accountability. Our goal is to build a model that truly reflects the needs and realities of those it aims to support.
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Piloting Projects: We are identifying grassroots realities and initiatives that allow us to test and fine tune our model of action in real contexts. By engaging directly with these initiatives, we aim to build lessons learned for adaptation, that will further shape and strengthen the ELEVATE Model for greater impact.
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Funding and Support: We are looking for funders and partners who believe in our mission and model of action and want to support our growth and impact. Whether through incubation, acceleration, or strategic collaboration, we seek allies who can help us test pilot projects, strengthen our model of action, and scale up.
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Whether you have been with us from the start or are just learning about Future Rights, there is a place for you here. We are looking for people who want to not just talk about change but help create it from the start, and who are ready to uncover hidden changemakers and champion ideas that have not yet had their moment to shine.
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Our vision is to lead change and protect futures through child and youth-driven solutions for a just and sustainable world
With the mission to empower and connect the voices of marginalised youth and adolescents, enabling them to share their experiences, address challenges, and build solutions in the field of human rights, social justice, climate change and protection.
A COLLECTIVE SHIFT OF POWER: A MODEL FOR ACTION
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Power to Grassroots, Led by Children and Youth
We amplify grassroots leadership—ensuring that child-, adolescent-, and youth-led initiatives drive real, lasting change.
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Locally Led, Not Top-Down – We create an enabling space where young people and grassroots organisations shape their own narratives, influence policies, and lead change within their communities.
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From Local Action to Global Influence – By bridging grassroots solutions with institutional and global decision-making, we ensure that locally child -youth led driven initiatives shape policies and governance frameworks.
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Strengthening Voices & Agency – Through structured support, shared learning, and collective engagement, we help marginalised children and youth take charge of their present and future—not just as participants, but as leaders, advocates, and changemakers.
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WHAT IS FUTURE RIGHTS?
A CATALYST FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
Future Rights is a catalyst for social change, working alongside child- and youth-led grassroots initiatives, particularly those led by and for marginalized and at-risk young people. Through a model of support, we identify initiatives, help them grow, gain visibility, and create lasting impact by providing expertise, seeking funding opportunities, fostering connections, and enabling experience-sharing.
At Future Rights, we believe that justice, solidarity, data-driven action, and bottom-up participation are the foundation of meaningful change.
We create collaborative spaces where young people, experts, and individuals from diverse backgrounds engage in dialogue, co-develop solutions, and drive systemic change in human, child and environmental rights, social justice, and child protection. We ensure that the voices of those who are often unheard not only reach decision-makers but also influence the policies and solutions that shape their lives.
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PILLARS
Youth and Child Participation
Future Rights recognises that children and young people are not isolated actors but part of a broader ecosystem—one that includes families, communities, institutions, and the environment. Their participation is about being active contributors within this interconnected space, where their engagement, leadership, and perspectives play a crucial role in shaping social and ecological change.
We foster an environment where young people—particularly those from marginalised and vulnerable communities—can lead initiatives, identify challenges, and co-create solutions that are relevant to their realities. Their participation is essential not only for their own empowerment but also for driving transformation within the larger systems they are part of.
Intergenerational Solutions and Local Perspectives
We bridge generations and expertise, ensuring that children, youth, and adults work together as co-leaders in promoting and protecting rights. By centering local perspectives, we make sure that solutions are contextual, relevant, and impactful, turning challenges into opportunities and dilemmas into solutions.
​Knowledge Exchange, Evidence and Practice
Future Rights is a hub for creativity and problem-solving, where knowledge is transformed into action. Every initiative we support is evidence-based, ensuring that ideas and projects are informed by research, data, and real-life experiences. We document lessons learned, adapt our model and projects for continuous improvement, and strengthen advocacy through tangible results.
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Accountability and Justice
Future Rights believes that children and youth must know their rights, recognise when they are violated, and have the means to seek justice. This includes the ability to identify problems, propose solutions, and engage in informed dialogue with decision-makers to drive change.
Ensuring accountability means that, especially marginalised children and youth, can safely and actively participate in justice processes. They must be empowered, treated with dignity and privacy, and provided with accessible support to engage effectively. Beyond giving them a voice, accountability requires holding systems responsible, securing remedies, and ensuring that justice leads to real change.
WHY FUTURE RIGHTS?
For further info read our problem statements, key issues and questions
The world is facing deep and persistent challenges in ensuring the rights, protection, and participation of children and young people, particularly in restricted civic spaces, fragile democracies, humanitarian crises, development settings, and contexts of multidimensional poverty. Despite decades of interventions, the culture of child rights, accountability, and justice remains fragile, and young people continue to be excluded from decision-making spaces, even when policies and programs directly affect their lives. This exclusion is not limited to fragile settings—it is a reality across many contexts where the perception of children and youth as relevant changemakers remains weak.
Children and youth are among the most vulnerable groups, facing heightened risks of violence, abuse, exploitation, and neglect. Yet, their voices, experiences, and rights remain largely overlooked, while different sectors and organizations operate in silos, weakening opportunities for sustainable, systemic change.
While international efforts, large NGOs, and institutional actors have made important contributions, significant challenges persist. Too often, their interventions are short-term, fragmented, and externally driven, lacking sustainability, meaningful local ownership, and long-term impact.
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Future Rights exists to challenge and bring change by fostering youth-led, locally driven solutions that are sustainable, evidence-based, and deeply embedded within communities.
HOW FUTURE RIGHTS CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE ?
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Challenging the colonial legacies and power dynamics that shape the humanitarian and development system,including its funding mechanism and its responses to child rights and protection issues concerning children and young people.
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Engaging and promoting the diversity and agency of children, youth and their communities in different contexts and cultures, by advancing their participation, leadership, knowledge and empowerment in decision and policy-making processes.
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Recognising that crises and human and child rights violations are not neutral, and addressing from an ecological perspective, their disproportionate impacts based on gender, age, ethnicity, disability, economic status, and educational background.
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Addressing the interdependence between children and young people rights and wellbeing and the environment, by acknowledging the impacts of environmental degradation and climate change on child development and protection.
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Creating continuous and accessible spaces for intergenerational dialogue and co-leadership, by building on the diverse starting points, needs, and worldviews of different generations.
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Advancing Evidence-Based & Accountable Action, by advancing in bottom-up, data-driven change, grounded in evidence and documentation, ensuring that every initiative is informed by research, lived experiences, and lessons learned.
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YOUTH AND CHILD RIGHTS, PROTECTION AND PARTICIPATION
in the field of
DURABLE SOLUTIONS, FORCED MIGRATION, DISPLACEMENT
ARMED CONFLICT , PEACE AND SECURITY
ACCESS TO JUSTICE
ALTERNATIVE CARE
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES
MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY
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