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Understanding Global Citizenship

A global citizen is someone who sees themselves as part of an emerging sustainable world community and supports values like peace, sustainability, and fairness through their actions. They are aware of their role in the wider world and actively participate in their community locally and globally to address issues. The key responsibilities of a global citizen include understanding different perspectives on global issues, respecting diversity, advocating for international cooperation, and promoting global equity and justice.

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Understanding Global Citizenship

A global citizen is someone who sees themselves as part of an emerging sustainable world community and supports values like peace, sustainability, and fairness through their actions. They are aware of their role in the wider world and actively participate in their community locally and globally to address issues. The key responsibilities of a global citizen include understanding different perspectives on global issues, respecting diversity, advocating for international cooperation, and promoting global equity and justice.

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GLOBAL CITIZEN

WHAT IS GLOBAL CITIZEN?

A global citizen is someone who sees


themselves as part of an emerging
sustainable world community, and
whose actions support the values and
practices of that community. Many
people today identify with being global
citizens as more and more aspects of
their lives become globalized.
WHAT IS GLOBAL CITIZEN?

A global citizen is someone who


is aware of and understands the
wider world – and their place in it.
They take an active role in their
community and work with others
to make our planet more
peaceful, sustainable and fairer.
WHAT IS GLOBAL CITIZEN?

A global citizen is someone who


is aware of and understands the
wider world – and their place in it.
They take an active role in their
community and work with others
to make our planet more
peaceful, sustainable and fairer.
A Global citizen is someone who

Is aware of the wider


world and has a sense respects and values understands how the is outraged by social
of their own role as a diversity world works injustice
world citizen

participates in the is willing to act to make


community at a range of the world a more takes responsibility for
levels, from the local to equitable and their actions.
the global sustainable place
GLOBAL CITIZEN RIGHTS

• The rights of global citizens are imbedded in the Universal


Declaration of Human Rights, first drafted in 1948 after World
War II.
• The core nature of the Universal Declaration—grounded in
individual liberty, equality, and equity—has remained
constant.
• New rights, that were not on the 1948 human rights agenda
have emerged, for example, digital access rights, LGBT
rights, and environmental rights.
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
RESPONSIBILITIES
Responsibility to understand one’s own perspective and the perspectives of others on global issues

Responsibility to respect the principle of cultural diversity:

Responsibility to make connections and build relationships with people from other countries and
cultures.
Responsibility to understand the ways in which the peoples and countries of the world are
inter-connected and inter-dependent
Responsibility to understand global issues

Responsibility to advocate for greater international cooperation with other nations

Responsibility for advocating for the implementation of international agreements, conventions,


treaties related to global issues
Responsibility for advocating for more effective global equity and justice in each of the value
domains of the world community

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