• How do you decide what are the important diversity and inclusion issues in different countries?
• How do you engage in conversations across cultures around issues of inclusion and equity?
• Discuss the comments from Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights Karima Bennoune:
  • "Universality is about human dignity, not about homogeneity," she says. "But we must also recognize the diversity of diversities, not only between, but within all human groups, and the fact that, among others, women, minorities, freethinkers and persons targeted because of their sexual orientation or gender identity have also been wrongfully subject to hegemony and abuse within groups."
  • For Bennoune, all these attacks reveal that it is vital to defend and strengthen universality to make human rights, including cultural rights, a reality for everyone, everywhere. Local initiatives in that direction are encouraging: in Mauritania, students have endeavoured to collect and analyze examples of expressions of universal human rights in their local languages and traditions to connect universal values to their own lived experiences.
  • "Universality is a global human project, and an ongoing one, and has become a part of global cultures," she says, calling for mechanisms to protect from attacks and incitement to hatred those who decide to step outside given cultural or religious norms.

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