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Alexandra, UNFPA
The first time I stepped foot on Southern Sudan’s broken soil was in 2006, less than a year after the signing of the peace agreement which put an end to the brutal civil war between North and Sout...
Fiona
The United Nations High Level Meeting on Youth, a conference that brings together hundreds of youth from around the world, is taking place from July 25th to July 26th 2011 at the United Nations Headqu...
Regina, UNFPA, NYU
Hey, I’m Regina and I’ll be chatting live from the United Nations headquarters this week in NYC from various different events at the Youth Summit! I’ll keep everyone posted on the events and dia...
Babu Ram
Hello Friends! I am sure many of you are keen to follow the updates on the High Level Meeting on Youth happening this week. This meeting is a first of its kind and I am too excited to be participating...
Jovana
Hola, voy a estar chateando en vivo con ustedes. Acompáñame y participa
tú también de la Reunión de Alto Nivel de Naciones Unidas sobre Juventud.
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Christon, UNFPA
Hey everyone!
The High Level Meeting on Youth in New York is unfolding from the 25-26 July 2011. I will be live-chatting from the event. This is a great meeting for young people and it g...
Nomvula, United Nations Population Fund
I will be live chatting from the High-Level Meeting on Youth in New York. Stay tuned, ask questions and take part in this important meeting.
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Mischa, UNFPA
What do world leaders need to know about your life? Have your say here on Conversations for a Better World, and stay tuned for our coverage from the High-Level Meeting on Youth, 25 and 26 July 2011 in...
bashir, Chanan Development Association (www.cdapak.org)
Human rights are a much spoken and debated topic in all societies.
The most recent phenomenon that sparkled lively discussions all over the world is the approval of same-sex marriage in New York an...
Anam
“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing but why should love stop at the border?” - Pablo Casals
For some individuals global citizenship emerges through a career decision or a study abr...
Miguel, COALICIÓN DE JÓVENES POR LA SALUD Y EDUCACIÓN SEXUAL-COJESS
Poco más de la mitad de la población mundial sufre algún tipo de discriminación por el simple hecho de ser mujeres. En México, por ejemplo los femincidios son frecuentes, es decir, un hombre se...
Alaa
For many years, human rights have become a prerequisite key element in social changes all over the world. There are great enhancements which were brought with technology, internet and social-networkin...
Aram
I want to ask you that for the next two minutes, you bare with me and forget your prejudices on drugs, on the people who use them -drug users- and on everything you have ever heard of them.
Instead...
Ahmed
The talk about sexuality hardly ever surfaces in Egypt. Even when an article or a speech is given by an enlightened intellectual, waves of rejection and censure usually follow. Discussing sexuality us...
Ahmed Danny
Syria’s society has a not-so-unique stigma regards everything relating to sexuality: the sexual orientation, the gender identity, the sexual education and the sexual citizenship are all viewed under...
Marijke
The coordinators of the 10 Days of Activism asked me to address the theme above. Obviously assuming that in my role as Ambassador for HIV/Aids (recently formally expanded to explicitly include Sexual ...
Noor
Online activism is generally a broad term used to label those politically active via social networking sites and more or less, adding that spark of importance to what they say/do. Personally, I believ...
Mari-Claire
I recently read an interesting article[1] discussing the demographics of facebook users across the world. To my surprise (and delight) the article stated that 'women rule social networks' with 64% of ...
Aleksandra
In February 2011, in one of the regions of Georgia, a horrible incident happened. A 16 years old girl was killed by her boyfriend. She was 4 months pregnant, and wanted to get married. She left her ho...
Hugh
"There’s one advantage to being 102. There’s no peer pressure."
Dennis Wolfberg
As Enrique astutely noted, ‘nobody wants to be lonely.’ Feeling accepted is an important part of human natu...
Babatunde, UNFPA
The world looks very different from when I was a kid in the 1950s in Nigeria. No high-speed Internet, no iPhones, no television. Definitely no tweeting, that’s for sure.
Your world as a young per...
Dina, Y-PEER
“Tell me, and I'll forget; show me, and I'll remember; involve me, and I'll understand.” Confucius.
Youth amount to one-third of the total global population. You may think that being part of th...
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