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Youth Speaks: Human Rights in Verse (ebook)

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Youth Speaks: Human Rights in Verse is a powerful poetry anthology edited by 2022 IHRAF Youth Fellow and Indy Youth Poet Laureate, Charlotte Yeung. Selected from over 150 global submissions, this collection features young poets ages 4 to 20 from more than a dozen countries, including Sri Lanka, Guam, Hong Kong, India, Qatar, and South Korea. The poems explore themes such as historical colonialism, racism, mental health, identity, and ongoing struggles for freedom. Introduced by IHRAF Founding Executive Director Tom Block, the anthology highlights the voices of a new generation using poetry to confront injustice and reimagine a more compassionate world. With artwork by young Indian artist D. Aron Raj on the cover, this collection stands as a vibrant testament to youth activism, creativity, and human rights storytelling.

Youth Speaks: Human Rights in Verse is a powerful poetry anthology edited by 2022 IHRAF Youth Fellow and Indy Youth Poet Laureate, Charlotte Yeung. Selected from over 150 global submissions, this collection features young poets ages 4 to 20 from more than a dozen countries, including Sri Lanka, Guam, Hong Kong, India, Qatar, and South Korea. The poems explore themes such as historical colonialism, racism, mental health, identity, and ongoing struggles for freedom. Introduced by IHRAF Founding Executive Director Tom Block, the anthology highlights the voices of a new generation using poetry to confront injustice and reimagine a more compassionate world. With artwork by young Indian artist D. Aron Raj on the cover, this collection stands as a vibrant testament to youth activism, creativity, and human rights storytelling.

The anthology was introduced by Tom Block, Founding Executive Director of the International Human Rights Art Festival, in July 2022.

The poems were selected from around 150 submissions and feature work from youth as young as 4 and as old as 20.

The contributors represent over a dozen countries, from Sri Lanka to Guam.

Featured Works and Artists:

  • The cover image, "Kindness and Conflict," is by D. Aron Raj, 9, from India.

  • The poems include "Demand of freedom" by Aisha Ali Al-Kuwari, Qatar; "No matter who you are" by Sing Yu Kasper Lok, Hong Kong; "Soboro in North Korea" by Seojin Ahn, South Korea; and "VIBGYOR" by Ruchika Rashya Bhuyan, India

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