Samarendra Patra, a youth from Damanjodi in Koraput district, has been invited to participate in the 10th Annual International Human Rights Summit co-organised by Jongeren voor Mensenrechten Belgie (Youth for Human Rights Belgium) ,Youth for Human Rights International and other likeminded organisations in Brussels in Belgium from September 6.
Patra has already been in the news over the last few years for being the first youth poet ambassador to India from “World Poetry Canada and International" under the category of literature and had got listed in India Book Records – 2012 for his good number of poetries at such a young age. He was also felicitated by the Chief Minister at Bhubaneswar recently.
According to Patra, the purpose of the Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) is to teach youth around the world about human rights, specifically the ‘United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)’ and inspire them to become advocates for tolerance and peace.
The summit will bring youth delegates from around the world together to discuss human rights and the important role of human rights education. There will be people coming from across 40 countries and only 30 youth delegates from all across the globe had been granted this limited scholarship in Brussels, he added. Patra is pursuing his engineering degree at Chennai.