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Help strengthen protection for university student activism worldwide

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SAIH is launching a new global study on how universities protect student activism. We invite you to share experiences, practices, and initiatives that help safeguard students’ rights to speak out and organize, so we can strengthen protection for student activists worldwide.

Please find information in Spanish, below.

Across the globe, student activists continue to play a vital role in defending human rights, democracy, and social justice. Yet in many places, they face intimidation, surveillance, disciplinary sanctions, and even criminalization for speaking out. As repression intensifies, the need to understand how student activists are being protected and what initiatives work are urgent.

SAIH is launching a new phase of our research on student activism. This year’s study focuses on the university initiatives to protect student activism, which help students resist repression and safeguard their rights within higher education and their wider networks.

To build a comprehensive picture, we are launching a Call for Evidence. The call aims to collect information about the formal and informal initiatives within universities and their networks that enable and safeguard students’ civic and political rights to express, assemble, and organize freely, without discrimination, intimidation, violence, or reprisal.

These may include actions taken by universities, student unions, staff and academics, civil society organizations, community groups, transnational networks or by students themselves

How to contribute

We invite students, activists, academics, civil society organizations, and anyone with relevant experience to complete our Call and provide information

Your insights will play a crucial role in strengthening efforts to protect student activists around the world.

Together, we can help ensure that campuses remain in spaces for free expression, critical inquiry, and democratic engagement!


Spanish below:

Ayúdanos a proteger a los activistas estudiantiles universitarios en todo el mundo

SAIH está iniciando un nuevo estudio global sobre cómo las universidades protegen el activismo estudiantil. Los invitamos a compartir experiencias, prácticas e iniciativas que contribuyan a salvaguardar los derechos de los estudiantes a expresarse y organizarse, para que podamos fortalecer la protección de los activistas estudiantiles en todo el mundo.

En todo el mundo, las y los activistas estudiantiles continúan desempeñando un papel vital en la defensa de los derechos humanos, la democracia y la justicia social. Sin embargo, actualmente enfrentan intimidación, vigilancia, sanciones disciplinarias e incluso criminalización por alzar la voz. A medida que la represión se intensifica, resulta urgente comprender cómo se está protegiendo a las y los activistas estudiantiles y qué iniciativas funcionan.

SAIH lanza una nueva fase de su investigación sobre el activismo estudiantil. Este año nuestro estudio se enfoca en analizar iniciativas de protección del activismo estudiantil en universidades y las formas en que las y los estudiantes resisten la represión y resguardan sus derechos en las universidades.

Para construir una visión integral, hemos lanzado un **Llamado a Evidencia**, el cual busca recopilar información sobre las iniciativas formales e informales que permiten y protegen los derechos cívicos y políticos de las y los estudiantes a expresarse, reunirse y organizarse libremente, sin discriminación, intimidación, violencia ni represalias dentro de las universidades y sus contextos.

Estas iniciativas pueden incluir acciones impulsadas por universidades, federaciones y centros de estudiantes, así como acciones impulsadas por funcionarios, personal académico, organizaciones de la sociedad civil, organizaciones comunitarias, redes transnacionales o por las y los propios estudiantes.

¿Cómo contribuir?

Invitamos a estudiantes, activistas, académicas/os, organizaciones de la sociedad civil y a cualquier persona con experiencia relevante a completar nuestro Llamado y aportar información.

Tus aportes serán fundamentales en el fortalecimiento de los esfuerzos para proteger a las y los activistas estudiantiles en todo el mundo. Por favor, comparte este llamado ampliamente en tus redes. Juntas y juntos podemos ayudar a garantizar que las universidades sigan siendo espacios de libre expresión, pensamiento crítico y participación democrática.

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