Archive for July, 2008
Junior 8
“We, the thirty-nine J8 delegates from Barbados, Canada, Cote d’Ivoire, France, Germany, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States of America believe that it is imperative for G8 leaders to listen to the voices of young people.“
Strong words. Heard words. Repeated words.
About a week back, 39 [...]
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Tags: Climate Change, Poverty, Youth-led development, G8 Summit, J8, Junior 8
Beyond Borders in New Delhi, India are organizing a two-day workshop on sexual and reprudctive rights on the 19th and 20th of July 2008.
“Reproductive and Sexual Health Education”(RSHE) workshop has been specifically designed for young people of age group 16- 22 years, to enable discussions around the issue of reproductive and sexual health, by making [...]
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Tags: Beyond Borders India, New Delhi, Sex Ed., Sexual Health Education
Rev Jesse Jackson whose oratory and occasionally his politics, I have been accustomed to enjoy got into a soup yesterday for his comments on Obama. For those who are not familiar with the name, Jackson was Martin Luther King’s left hand during the civil right movement days and was the first African American to make any progress at a Presidential [...]
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Tags: Commonewalth, Marginalization, Obama, Sri Lanka, Youth Participation
We were most Impressed with the set of (draft) guidelines put together by the Civil Liberties and Public Policy program on the “Principles of Meaningful Youth Participation”. Working in the sphere of youth-led development both in Sri Lanka and internationally, we have encountered two basic views among young people in their understanding of youth [...]
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Tags: Youth, Democracy, Sri Lanka, Development, Activism, Youth Participation, Youth-led development
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