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#WikiForHumanRights 2023: Right to a healthy environment

Why should you participate?

Every human being should have a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment to live in. Fortunately, the right to a healthy environment is recognized in one way or another in more than 150 countries worldwide. #WikiForHumanRights campaign encourages Wikimedians and advocates to document on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia platforms the story of these rights which enable a safe and stable climate, healthy ecosystems, and a non-toxic environment: we can increase knowledge about the healthy natural systems upon which all people rely for the water they drink, the air they breathe, the food they eat and the resources they need.

How to participate?

Are you part of a local community wikimedia community or interested in climate change and sustainability topic with a human rights intersection? We need you to participate in one of the following ways:

Be a Regional Coordinator to mobilize and support community or country organizers to implement local activities in your region.

Be a Country or Community Organizer organizing local activities in your country. You could organize:

  • Organize an edit a thon or editing workshop in your country/community
  • Organize a mini editing contest in your country/community
  • Host a webinar on the theme
  • Translation activity or contest for existing articles around the theme
  • Try something else that is creative

Participate in local events organized in your community or country to contribute to wikipedia and sister projects

Join Activities

International Writing contest

Are you an experienced Wikipedia editor? We are running a WikiForHumanRights Challenge this year! Please join and earn small prizes!

Join Events in Your Region

Find an event in your context

Join Global Events Africa

Article list suggestion

Are you struggling to find topics to write about? Visit our list of suggested articles to find an article of interest or find inspiration!