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On Saturday September 6th, the fourth series of Workshops of the “Community Agents on Human Rights and Health” Program started. This initiative seeks to empower young people aged 16 and older with the best professionals in the country, developing a more effective leadership, allowing them to make bonds at the different levels of policy planning and implementation of activities that affect them as young people. The focus of the initiative is based on the extension of learning, as a form of community empowerment and advancement of human rights at all levels of social interaction.

The workshop is divided into 10 sessions, with a total load of four hours each. In the workshops, together with the team of professionals and the permanent staff of SOMOSGAY, the methodology of knowledge-transfer to and between volunteers is applied with technical workgroup, where materials and research resources referred to the program are used throughout the length of the program.

The workshops that will be developed include the following topics: Dynamics and Discussions on Heteronormativity, Recreational Drugs, Gender and Behavioral Expressions of Sexuality, LGBT Rights, Dynamics of Practice Facilitation, Behavioral and Epidemiological Data of Gay Men and other YSMS, History of the LGBT Movement, Public Policies for Youth in Paraguay, among others.

In the framework of the "Araroky Tava" Project, the Community Agents Program is funded by the European Union, the Fundación Triángulo (Spain) and the Extremadura Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AEXCID).

Community Agents emphasizes the inclusion of youth in the implementation of policies towards the advancement of human rights in Paraguay, regardless of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity, whose primary goal is to train youth leaders, so that they are change leaders and propagators of new and innovative health and human rights paradigms.