52届联合国人权理事会上，友成基金会发言——

2023年2月27日，联合国人权理事会第52届会议于日内瓦联合国万国宫召开，本届会议将持续到4月4日。友成基金会于2019年取得了联合国经济及社会理事会非政府组织特别咨商地位。在过去一周（3月21日-3月24日），友成现场参加了“议题五：人权机构与机制”的一般性辩论和“新时代的少数民族权利保障”的主题边会。

在“议题五：人权机构与机制”的一般性辩论上，友成基金会秘书长零慧以友成帮扶车间为例，介绍了各级政府、企业与社会组织合作构建社会创新的生态，为贵州的妇女提供培训、就业机会和订单，保障脱贫人口的发展权。

3月24日，由中国少数民族对外交流协会主办的“新时代的少数民族权利保障”主题边会上，来自多个机构的中外专家学者以线上线下相结合的方式围绕主题展开研讨。零慧秘书长（由桂宇清代读）分享了友成基金会在促进农村发展以及提升人民发展权方面所作的努力。友成基金会与星巴克共同发起的“星绣未来”计划和“香橙妈妈”项目发掘少数民族的潜力和文化，充分释放她们的创造力并享有被尊重和充实的生活。

以下为零慧秘书长发言原文：

在“议题五：人权机构与机制”的一般性辩论上的发言

尊敬的主席、阁下、女士们、先生们：

我是友成企业家乡村发展基金会秘书长零慧。我们相信所有人都有自由追求自身经济、社会和文化权利的发展。

目前，我们正在与政府和企业合作，在中国南部的贵州省偏远地区建立手工艺品车间，并创造就业机会。这个地区的人们，特别是妇女和老年人，曾经生活在贫困线以下，现在已经全部脱贫。

在这些车间中，参与者接受培训并从事低门槛的工作，获得可观的收入。车间还配备有托儿所，以使乡村妇女在工作时不必担心照料孩子。

随着跨境电商的发展，我们的受益人的产品被销往海外市场，并为他们带来收入，用于补充教育、衣物和其他家庭开支。

这些车间背后是来自爱心企业的捐赠和投资，以及各级政府的支持。作为一家社会组织，友成基金会提供其知识、经验和平台，形成集合影响力；不仅惠及人民，更促进建立一个新的社会生态系统，在其中社会价值将是每个人的最终追求。

谢谢。

附：原英文

Distinguished President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen，I am Ling Hui from YouChange China Social Entrepreneur Foundation. We recognize that all people are free to pursue their economic, social, and cultural development.

And we are currently working with public and private sectors to build handicraft workshops and provide employment in the remote region of Guizhou Province，southern China. People in this region, especially women and seniors, used to live below poverty line now lifted above the line.

In these workshops, participants are trained to engage in low-threshold labours and gain decent monthly payments. These workshops are equipped with child-care centre so that women can bring their children to work.

With the development of e-commerce, their products are sold to oversea markets and bring income for them to pay for education, clothes and other household expenses.

Behind these workshops are the donation and investment from the private sector, as well as support from governments at all levels. YouChange foundation, as a social organization here, provides its knowledge, experience, and platform to form a collective impact that not just benefit the people, but facilitate the establishment of a new social eco-system in which social value is the ultimate pursuit of every member of the society.

Thank you.

在“新时代的少数民族权利保障”主题边会上的发言

我是来自友成基金会的桂宇清。发掘少数民族的潜力和文化，一直是我们在促进农村发展以及提升人民发展权方面努力的重要组成部分。

在中国南方的山区，生活着一个古老的少数民族——水族，人口仅有40万左右。1000多年来，水族人民一直在制作和保护他们的传统马尾绣。这种特殊的艺术形式使用硬质的马尾制作日常用品，能够保存数百年。这些绣品代代相传，带着祖先的祝福，形成一种穿越时空的特殊联系。但是现在，越来越多的人选择为了生计而离开农村，他们的马尾绣作品被留在了身后。

马尾绣只是许多非物质文化遗产中正在消失的一种。过去几十年已经证明，西方现代化和工业化的进步绝不是发展的最终答案。友成基金会相信，人的发展是最大的公益。只有赋能少数民族发现他们文化价值的同时，鼓励他们发掘自己的潜力时，我们促进农村发展的努力才能可持续且广泛适用。

为此，友成基金会与星巴克共同发起的“星绣未来”乡村女性经济赋能与非遗传承公益项目，针对农村女性非物质文化遗产传承人进行培训和赋能，培训内容涉及美学设计、营销、财务管理、社交媒体操作、女性领导力等方面。

在未来3年内，“星绣未来”计划将赋能超过1000名女性非物质文化传承人，针对性培养其中的50名产业领袖。该计划还将孵化15个农村非遗合作社，开发并生产超过90种不同的文化产品和3个品牌，为参与者实现15%的收入增长。

在参加该计划之前，燕婷是一名大学生，曾前往贵州拍摄关于马尾绣的纪录片。这期间，她爱上了这门艺术，并最终爱上了制作它们的人。她嫁给了马尾绣国家传承人的儿子。燕婷、她的丈夫和婆婆一起创办了一家公司，开发并生产结合现代美学和满足年轻人口味的绣品。然而，他们需要指导将产品带入更广阔的市场。在这个计划中，她能够表达自己对未来发展的担忧，并从专家和企业家同行那里得到建议。他们的公司一直稳步发展，并为300多名同村村民提供就业机会。

在一个旨在赋能农村女性创业者的类似项目“香橙妈妈”中，我们还有另一个激励人心的人物。在加入该计划之前，杨树桢是一位苗族女子，在城市的闯荡中失意，并作为一个失败者返回家乡。她不受欢迎，不断受到批评和失望，她曾以为生活就这样结束了。然后树桢加入了“香橙妈妈”项目，她被女性领导力培训所震撼，因为她从未想过女性也能够取得伟大的成就。她在培训中完成了人生中第一次公开演讲；之后，她便成为同村女性的领袖。她们一起开展电商创业，制作和销售传统手工艺品，向东部发达地区的消费者销售。树桢甚至大胆尝试“村官”选举，并当选为村委会副书记。一个女人治理村庄，对于当地人还是第一次。

阿昌族的尹春焕在“星绣未来”计划的共创工作坊中忍不住泪水。她说：“我们绣花女，正努力用我们粗糙的双手创造更好的生活。我所做的不仅仅是保护一门艺术，而是推广我们民族的文化。在专家的帮助下，我们的刺绣以各种形式进入主流市场，消费者非常喜爱产品和它们背后的文化。”

随着信息通信技术在中国的广泛应用，我们获得了发现隐藏文化价值、连接边缘群体、并将他们不可思议的智慧和技能转化为经济效益的机会。友成在这条道路上做了一些相当成功的实验；但我相信这条路的终点将是一个每个社会成员，无论男女、少数民族还是多数民族，都能充分释放他们的创造力并享有被尊重和充实生活。

谢谢。

附：原英文

Distinguish guests, Ladies and Gentlemen:

I am Gui Yuqing from YouChange China Social Entrepreneur Foundation. Discovering the potential of ethnic minority people and their culture has been an essential part of our efforts in promoting rural development as well as the people’s right to development.

In the mountains of Southern China live an ancient ethnic group, the Shui people with the population about just 400 thousand. For over a thousand years, people of Shui have been making and preserving their traditional horsetail embroidery. This particular form of art uses hard-textured horsetail to weave daily-use goods that last centuries. Embroidery pieces are passed from generation to generation with the blessing of the ancestors, a special connection that travels through time. But nowadays more and more people chose to leave for livelihoods in the cities, and their horsetail embroidery pieces are left behind.

Horsetail embroidery is only one of many intangible cultural heritages that are fading away as we speak. The last few decades have proven that progress in the sense of western modernization and industrialization cannot be the final answer for development. YouChange believes that the greatest development is the development of human beings. Our efforts to promote rural development can only be sustainable and widely applicable when we aim at empowering ethnic minority peoples to discover the value of their cultures and encouraging them to realize their own potential.

In order to do so, YouChange and the Beijing Starbucks Foundation initiated the “Star-show Future” Program which targets rural female inheritors of intangible cultural heritages, trains and empowers them in aesthetic design, marketing, financial management, social media operation, female leadership and so on.

In the next 3 years, “Star-show Future” plans to empower over 1000 female inheritors and specifically cultivate 50 of them as industrial leaders. The program will also incubate 15 rural cooperatives which will develop and produce over 90 different kinds of cultural products and 3 brands and achieve a 15% income increase for participants.

But no number speaks louder than the changes that have taken place on our participants, which is why I’d like to present you the story of Zhang Yanting.

Before Yanting signed up for the program, she was a college student who travelled to Guizhou to make a documentary about horsetail embroidery. She fell in love with the art and eventually with the people who make them. She married to the son of the national inheritor of horsetail embroidery. Together, Yanting, her husband, and her mother-in-law started a company to develop and produce embroidery pieces that combine modern aesthetics and meet the taste of the younger generation. Still, they needed guidance to bring their products into bigger markets. In the program, she was able to express her concerns and get advices from experts and fellow entrepreneurs. Their company has been growing steadily and provided employment for over 300 villagers.

In a similar program that aims at empowering rural female entrepreneurs called “Women Up!”, we have another incredible figure to introduce.

Before joining the program, Yang Shuzhen was a Miao Zu woman who failed in her adventure in the city and return home as a loser. Unwanted, constantly criticized, and been disappointed at, she thought her life was over. Then she joined the “Women Up!” program, and she was stunned by the female leadership session because she never thought women can achieve great things. After her first public speech in the session, she became the leader of her fellow women participants. They started online business together, making and selling traditional handicrafts to customers in the eastern regions. Shuzhen even made a bold move in the election of village officials and was elected the deputy director of village committee. A woman governing the village is quite the first time for her own village.

Yin Chunhuan, ah chang zu, the population is quite small, 43 thousand, cried during a co-create workshop with YouChange Foundation. She said: “we, the embroidery ladies, are trying so hard to create a better life with our callus covered hands. What I have been doing isn’t just to preserve an art, but to promote the culture of our ethnic. With the help of YouChange’s experts, our embroidery is entering mainstream market in various forms and our costumers love the products and the culture behind them.”

With the wide application of ICT in China, we have been given the opportunity to discover the value of hidden cultures, to connect the people who were temporarily left behind, and to transfer/turn their incredible intelligence and skills into economic benefits. YouChange has been doing some quite successful experiments on this road; but I believe the end of the road will be a time when every member of the society，man and women，minority and majority can fully release their creativity and have a respectable and fulfilled life.

Thank You.

联合国人权理事会的一般性辩论是每年在联合国欧洲总部（日内瓦）举行的一类会议，旨在促进和加强全球人权的保护和促进。在这个会议上，各国驻联合国代表可以就当前的人权问题进行讨论和辩论，包括针对特定国家或地区的问题。此外，会议还可以听取来自非政府组织、人权专家和其他利益相关方的报告和陈述，以提供更广泛的视角和深入了解人权问题。

联合国人权理事会的主题边会是指在一般性辩论之外举行的小型会议，旨在讨论特定的人权问题或主题。这些会议通常由联合国人权理事会的成员国或其他利益相关方来组织，以就某些人权问题进行较为深入的讨论和辩论。边会的主题可以包括各种人权问题，如妇女权利、儿童权利、残疾人权利、移民和难民权利等。边会通常由专家、学者、非政府组织和其他利益相关方参加。

联合国人权理事会的一般性辩论和边会是一个重要的平台，可以促进对各种人权问题的更深入了解和讨论，并为制定和实施全球人权标准提供指导。中国社会组织积极参与联合国各项活动，介绍中国经济社会发展的创新举措和具体情况，有助于国际社会全面准确了解中国的情况，有助于发挥中国社会组织在国际舞台的作用，以更积极的态度和形象参与国际事务治理。