This section explores young people’s strategies, practices and experiences of participation and engagement. It provides a selection of resources on the topic of youth participation, including a tool to map multiple entry points into young people’s involvement in international decision-making, a direct follow-up of the London Symposium on meaningful youth participation.
“Every year, since 2000, the United Nations has celebrated the International Youth Day on August 12. This year, the Day’s event which held last Sunday, is aptly titled, “Building A
The deeply disparate, often disconnected and increasingly competitive actions of the United Nations and its various agencies, programmes, funds, initiatives and offices in the youth field mostly fail to achieve
Through an initiative called Youth 21, UN-HABITAT tries to position itself as the leading agency on youth issues within the UN. A ten-week publicity show was meant to give one
Since youth has become a new priority of the UN Secretary General, a flurry of activity has started. Most events are tokenistic and manipulative, dominated by hidden agendas and personal
As long as we still have a socio-economic divide, we will continue to have the digital divide amongst young people. What matters the most is that we don’t create a
The dissatisfaction, anger and disillusionment of civil society with the weak outcome text of the Rio+20 Summit—and the lack of willingness of heads of state to make it stronger—has culminated
When the Major Group for Children & Youth spoke at the opening plenary of Rio+20, they did so on behalf of 3 billion young people. Now, after an 8 month
“We would like to commend the efforts of civil society in highlighting the importance of food security for the achievement of sustainable development. Despite these inputs, the outcome document of
“Our vision of the world is one that embraces social equity and environmental justice, where prosperity is evaluated by the principles and values of our collective consciousness. Humankind should be
“It’s a little cliché in sustainable development circles to say: “we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” That doesn’t make it any
