Voices of Youth

The things we have and the food we eat are mistreated and not valued. The everyday life makes us demand for more, leading us to being ungrateful. Instead we compete with each other, the "rich kid next door" or doing things that we could waste our lives with, updating statuses, etc. We are so "busy" with things that would not benefit us and take our everyday needs for granted.

When it comes to poverty and poor people, we often avoid to or don't pay attention. Our parents often say," Don't you know the kids in Africa don't get to eat? They have no food! Instead you are wasting it." Still we ignore, we often blame the poor people for being…

Photos by Kristian Bertel - With more than 740.000 schools India operates the biggest education system in the world. Literacy rates have increased within the last decades, up to 65 per cent in 2001. However, since local boards are in control of education, there are big differences in quality of education in India. The present day education system in India has come a long way and the age old traditions have undergone a makeover to produce an education system that is evolving every single day.

Initiatives like the Right to Education Act have provided an impetus to growth and progress by laying special emphasis on elementary education in India. Combined with policy changes like making child labour illegal the being…

I think we all know, through the mass media, the events that take place during any recent conflict. But something is not shown. This is the psychological injury that it causes in children, not only in the most closely affected. I still remember that September 11, 2001, at six years, celebrating Teachers' Day in Argentina in the house of my grandmother, the television images of planes crashing into the World Trade Center. My family and I did not understand why people were jumping from burning buildings...

One thing that policymakers should consider that violence takes away the innocence of childhood. I give you an example: a 10-year-old Iraqi notes the U.S. military kill children the same age as "error", by…

Her eyes are like black diamonds. you can see the flash of sunlight before her crystal clear marbling eyes everyday you wake up in the morning.She often says, i am like her lost daughter. Definitely,she is neither less than my mother nor my grand mother. She is Sahera Banu, my domestic helper. Someone I admire.

Admiration is an intense form of love. However, this love is unknown. And if it is known, then still unexpressed. And if expressed, then very mysterious. How would you define it? Affection? Passion? Emotion? Kiss? or Hugs?

Well, my mother kisses me on my forehead too. But there is something special that drags me to her. Is it her unconditional care for me?

If it…

This item was published on May 5 last year in the Spanish edition of "Voices of Youth". Because major initiatives genre, I extend the invitation to all English-speaking community.

This is what I do. One proposal, an initiative. So we see we can do to change the world. I propose that those who wish, to comment on this article about their countries, cities, schools ...

Let's talk Let's say that we care problematic, we believe solutions, we express our opinion. Establish contacts, either by creating emails or websites (or through social networks). Let us form a group of committed people across the borders. Comentemoslo our friends, classmates, teachers ...

Let's show our power. Counting our experiences through this forum, spreading.…

What is the Convention on the Rights of the Child?

It has only been since 20 November 1989, when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) that the world has benefited from one set of legal rights for all children and young people. Today, 193 States parties have ratified the Convention, making it the most widely ratified human rights agreement in the world.

A convention such as this is an agreement between people or countries where everyone agrees to follow the same law. The CRC spells out the range of rights to which children everywhere are entitled. It sets basic standards for children’s well-being at different stages of their development and is…

It is self evident that education is the key that unlocked the inner mind towards creativity. There are geniuses no doubt, but remember that a sage has defined genius as 99 per cent perspiration and one per cent inspiration. the developed world has long recognised the symbiotic relationship between the 'Gown' and 'Town', that's why a sizable portion of their GDP goes into research.

The bottom line is that if integration of entrepreneurship into our educational curriculum is properly planned and executed as a genuine collaboration between the Institutions and the Industries, the idea will not only help solve our unemployment problems, but equally assist in laying a solid foundation for the nation's industrial breakthrough.

Entrepreneurship study in Institution is…

In 2011, UNICEF commissioned research to investigate the role of education in peacebuilding in post-conflict contexts. The resulting report, entitled “The Role of Education in Peacebuilding: A synthesis report of findings from Lebanon, Nepal and Sierra Leone,” is part of a knowledge generation study within the Back on Track programme on Education in Emergencies and Post-Crisis Transition.

The study examines how integrated education interventions could have a stronger role in post-conflict peacebuilding within the United Nations system. It includes a programme literature and research review on the role of education in peacebuilding, as well as three country case studies on UNICEF’s education work in Lebanon, Nepal and Sierra Leone.

To download the resources on education in peacebuilding, please click here!