'I have a right to...' consists of radio programmes in many languages, awareness raising debates and events in participating countries and a website. Radio series will be produced in English, Albanian, Serbian, Russian, Turkish, Hindi, Urdu, Spanish for the Americas, Arabic, Hausa, Swahili and English for Africa, as well as other local languages in the later phases of the project.

Phase I of the project included 50 hours of airtime explaining human rights in a total of 13 language services, a website in English and specialist training for a team of BBC reporters. Before the project ends in December 2002, the project will deliver another 26 hours of radio in anouther 12 languages.

Phase II included BBC teams returning to Kenya, Russia, India, Nigeria and Mexico for specific events designed for broadcast, working in colse partnership with NGOs, universities, and local journalists. The primary aim was to stimulate and contribute to national debates about human rights and to strengthen in-country partners to continue the discussion after the broadcast.

Rights

'I have a right to...' aims to leave listeners with an increased understanding of human rights across the globe including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR); an enhanced awareness of their own human rights as individual citizens; and an up to date picture of the involvement and position of their own country and region on human rights issues.