The Human Library: challenging stereotypes and prejudices through dialogue

The host talks about the concept “Human library and its relevance”.

The Human Library is an international organization and movement that first started in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2000. It aims to address people's prejudices by helping them to talk to those they would not normally meet. The organization uses a library analogy of lending people rather than books. These people have "experienced prejudice, social exclusion or stigma," and participants can ask them questions so as to "learn about the other person and also challenge their own prejudices"

The Human Library Organization is active in over 80 countries, in which there are a few permanent Human Libraries, but most happen as events.