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.
One of main outcomes of the Rio+20 summit is likely to be a commitment to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which expire in 2015, with an upgraded set of
While it looks like the world leaders, who convene at Rio+20 in Brazil, fail to get any half-way useful commitment agreed upon in order to replace the Millennium Development Goals,
More than 3,000 young people were expected to gather in Rio de Janeiro at the Youth Blast ahead of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). But despite a
Twenty years ago, Severn Cullis-Suzuki’s 6-minute speech to the 1992 Earth Summit ‘silenced the world’ and challenged negotiators to ‘make your actions reflect your words.’ Twenty years on and speaking
The ‘Youth Blast’ is the Conference of Youth for Rio+20, a preparatory event for all children and youth attending the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) widely known as
At Rio+20, countries and world leaders are actively blocking references in the conference agreement to human rights. Despite all countries at the United Nations agreeing to the Universal Declaration on
This animation video by the youth-led NGO Rio+twenties introduces children and youth to the world of Rio+20, a sustainable development conference organised by the UN in June 2012. It is
The situation of persons with disabilities in Zambia regarding inclusiveness in developmental agenda, political, social and economic sectors as compared to the Dr. Kaunda era and neighbour region is terrible.
Until last year, the international media paid little attention to Hungary. This changed when the nationalist and conservative Fidesz party, won a majority in the 2010 elections, thereby gaining the
It is important that the UN Secretary General remains in touch and up to date with the developments in Singapore within the developing context of the South East Asian region.
