{"id":25216,"date":"2025-01-06T17:42:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T17:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=25216"},"modified":"2025-01-06T17:42:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T17:42:51","slug":"maureen-hope-receives-eu-human-rights-award-for-empowering-youth-and-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/maureen-hope-receives-eu-human-rights-award-for-empowering-youth-and-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Maureen Hope Receives EU Human Rights Award for Empowering Youth and Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Saskia Warrick, NCN News \u2013 November 22, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maureen Hope, the founder of the NGO Youths with Purpose and a dedicated social worker, has been honored with the European Union Delegation\u2019s 2024 Human Rights Award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award recognizes her outstanding contributions to empowering youth and supporting women in Crane, West Coast Demerara, where she has worked for over two decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the award reception, EU Ambassador Ren\u00e9 van Nes commended Hope\u2019s tireless efforts, emphasizing the importance of local partnerships in addressing human rights challenges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He spoke of the EU\u2019s strong belief in the role of civil society in protecting human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her speech, an overwhelmed Hope shared that her passion for helping others stems from her own experiences growing up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She expressed her determination to expand the reach and impact of Youths with Purpose, which has been providing invaluable support to the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The EU Human Rights Award, which has been presented annually since 2017, celebrates individuals and organizations making significant contributions to human rights advocacy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This award further reaffirms the EU\u2019s commitment to supporting civil society and human rights defenders in Guyana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Saskia Warrick, NCN News \u2013 November 22, 2024 Maureen Hope, the founder of the NGO Youths with Purpose and a dedicated social worker, has been honored with the European&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25217,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25216\/revisions\/25217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}