Voices of Youth

Innovation is often said to be largely regarded as the product of research within the codified knowledge community in which knowledge dissemination is always the end point of its activities. Initiatives like finding a lasting solution to alternative energy source should be the first priority of every higher institution where creativity and innovations should be harnessed among our undergraduates, encouraging the innovative ones to embark on projects that improves on alternative energy sources like conversion of waste materials into alternative source of power as a substitute to our hydro electricity or fossil fuel generating plant on-campus as well as adopting the 3R’s reusable scheme i.e. “The reduce-reuse-recycle lifestyle” among students on-campus.

As an organization involved in social mobilization on climate…

In his remarks today to the General Assembly on his Five-Year Action Agenda: "The Future We Want", Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon announces that he will appointment a new Special Representative for Youth.

He says: "Let us start with young people. Today we have the largest generation of young people the world has ever known. They are demanding their rights and a greater voice in economic and political life. We will do all we can to meet their needs and create opportunities. We will deepen our youth focus and develop an action plan across the full range of UN programmes, including employment, entrepreneurship, political participation, human rights, education and reproductive health. And I will appoint a new…

As a first-generation Chinese immigrant living in the United States, I have witnessed, experienced, and can attest to the immense nationalistic pride that Americans hold for their democratic form of government. Patriotism, they call it.

But from such patriotism occasionally stems a misguided close-mindedness towards other forms of government. Democracy, such people believe, is the only rightful way to govern a nation. Further, these people seek to eradicate any other form of government that stand in the path of democracy. Such sentiments are exemplified by the anti-communist panic that swept America during the Cold War era of the 1950s.

With that said, let it be clear that I neither denounce nor disagree with the aforementioned breed of patriotism, but only…

I would like to draw to your attention a new case study on youth participatory research supported by UNICEF’s Back on Track Programme in the Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS) Region. This case study examines youth participatory designs in UNICEF’s education in emergencies and post-crisis transition programming and highlights best practices and recommendations for future scale up.

To read the full case study, please click here!

Education allows you to speak with confidence on matters that you never imagined to ever be able to speak in great length about.

At 1am, upon finishing a four-hour study session, I explained the conditions and causes for the urban-rural inequality in modern China since 1945 to my friend: from the economic reform to the social benefits provided, to the current educational system. I went on tangent so many times since the topic was so broad, but somehow I was able to paint a general picture for her.

The discussion, somehow, went into Cold War. And so we went from basic realism, to the idea of security dilemma, to the events near the end of World War II, to the…

My last article, the one about the oil crisis was very popular in my opinion (yay!) And I was accually thinking about it,beacuse so many people liked my article,i felt so happy! When someone likes you, you feel good about yourself. When more and more people like you you feel better and better.

Hence, the popular kids at a school, so many people like them because they are popular. But of course, the "nerds" and "geeks" are the ones usually driven to suicide.Thats probably mostly because the kids don't feel the need to make the not so popular kids feel like people like them. I'm homeschooled so the best example i can really do is this: i am babysitting my…

An estimated 2 billion cubic feet of gas is flared daily in Nigeria. This puts Nigeria among the world’s largest sources of carbon emissions. The enigma of gas flaring in Nigeria dates back to the 1960s. Some of the factors responsible for flaring are: poor re-injection facilities on ground, and inability to store excess gas (which is useful for community projects). Gas flaring is dangerous in any environment. It is harmful to health, livelihood, the adjacent vegetation and is a major contributing factor to the global warming crises.

The Niger Delta region serves as the main hub for oil and gas production in Nigeria. It is located in the southern part of Nigeria. I was privileged to do my undergraduate…

Hello everyone, I'm İdil and I live in Turkey. In my country education is the most needed thing and there are a lot of campaigns to improve education. There are more than 3 three organizations which help girls’ education, there are organizations for the children who have lost their parents, there are also community centres which educate the public. A lot of people dedicate themselves to teach people and change the society in to a better way. I am really proud of these people; but there is a thing that I am not proud of (which is a shame for such a country with great citizens): the education policy and the teachers payments.

We have a education policy that still…