Join me on my road to Rio+20!
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Hi, I am Kelvin, a Fijian youth who will be participating at the 6th World Youth Congress from 4-13 June, 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. To maximise the impacts of this once in a lifetime opportunity and with the kind assistance and support of UNICEF Pacific, I hope to create as much awareness possible and engage Pacific as well as global youth on the climate debate using social and traditional media before, during and after the WYC 2012. What is climate change? The challenges it poses to us now and in the future? How can we adapt to the challenges? and What are the possible solution?
These are a few of the many questions that I would like for…
Violence against Children in the Spotlight at Caribbean Meeting: Meet Craig
There are many ways to describe the experience that I have been given the opportunity to witness. Originally I had the standard expectation of a conference, a long and monotonous ceremony where I would be lectured and put to sleep with no chance to offer input and everything be laid out in front of me. It was quite the opposite upon my arrival I have been met with nothing but participation and enthusiasm from both my fellow juices of our creative young minds for the betterment of children around the world and for this I express a million thanks for this marvellous and creative opportunity.
-Craig, Young Media team of the conference, Jamaica
About the event: Caribbean leaders converged in…
NY+20 Video: Youth Action for Sustainable Development
Youth in New York City came together to discuss the key issues of Rio+20 and to develop a set of principles to take to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in June. In this short film, participants answer two…
You are the change! Get ready to become Digital Citizens soon.
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In 2012 UNICEF Digital Citizenship and Safety teamed up with Junior Reporters Clubs all over the country of Viet Nam. This is an example of how youths like you can help us in collection of data and become UNICEF Digital…
Mumbai+20: Youth in India Hold a Model UN Conference on Sustainable Development
Source: http://www.facebook.com/blueribbonmovement
We believe that reality is first shaped through shared visions and conversations. An ideal world has to be dreamt first, and then created. And the dreamers of this world have to be youth – for they have the…
10 Years After: Meet Yvonne
I attended UNGASS as a member of the Kenyan Government delegation 10 years ago. I don’t think I fully grasped the impact of that opportunity at the time. It was the first time the Kenyan government had ever taken on any children on their delegation for any negotiations. I was terribly excited, particularly because they really made me feel like a valuable and significant part of the team despite my age.
I was around 13 at the time and UNGASS was my second opportunity to be in New York as I had already attended the preparatory session the previous year. My family was incredibly supportive, in light of their slight nervousness at me being away from home without them for…
Looking back on my time at WhizzKids United
By Nobuhle Dladla
In February 2007, I started working for WhizzKids United as a Life Skills Trainer. It was a big change in my life and an eye opener of how the AIDS epidemic is threatening in South Africa and the whole world especially in young persons who get infected. I felt like I could help change, like I owed Edendale's youth a behaviour change initiation.
I've become an older sister to them, someone they can talk to since they are afraid to talk to their parents about sex and stuff. So I opened my arms to make them feel free to come and discuss every thing with me. I've changed most of their behaviours in how to take care…
It's time for Soccer Aid 2012!
On 27 May England will take on the Rest of the World in a football match that will help save and change children’s lives. Two teams of celebrities and football legends, captained by Robbie Williams and Michael Sheen, will go…
West Papua's indigenous people hurt by Indonesia's resource extraction – video
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Indigenous people in West Papua are suffering as their land and forests are exploited by timber and palm oil companies. West Papua has immense natural resources, which has encouraged logging and deforestation. Indonesia took control of the west part of Papua New Guinea in 1969. Amnesty International estimates that more than 400,000 Papuans have since been killed. A conference in Oxford in August 2011 highlighted the problems in West Papua and explored ways in which they could be resolved More http://gu.com/p/37jnc
Indigenous people in West Papua are suffering as their land and forests are exploited by timber and palm oil companies. West Papua has immense natural resources, which has encouraged logging and deforestation. Indonesia took control of the west part of…
Be the change in your community
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You can all become Digital Citizens and make a change. Advocate and raise awareness about issues in your society today. We can all voice our opinions and push for changes that make our society better.
Kelvin
Etienne
NY+20
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WhizzKids United