RELATED LINKS & RESOURCES
Related links
Whatkidscando
Feature
story on the Youth Visioning process, on the
'Whatkidscando'
website includes interviews with some of the youth
involved.
Youth
Pan de Move
This is the website of Jamion Knight's project.
The site hopes to provide all the necessary information
young people will need to set up a business operation.
It is also hoped that young people will be empowered
and inspired by this site.
World AIDS Youth Debate
In December 2002, UNESCO and the World Bank brought
some 1,000 young people together from 34 countries
via video to exchange views and discuss issues
relating to the WAC theme in six languages: Arabic,
English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
A highlight
package combining the best moments of all the
debates has also been produced and placed on a
CD-ROM, which also contains useful resources for
fighting stigma and discrimination in your community.
UNESCO : Mainstreaming the needs of youth
UNESCO wishes to empower young people and to encourage
the inclusion of youth concerns into the policies
of Member States.
HIV/AIDS
and Human Rights: Young People in Action
UNESCO/UNAIDS Kit
UNESCO's contribution to the fight against the
HIV/AIDS pandemics, in co-operation with UNAIDS
co-sponsors, Member States, civil society partners
and the private sector, concentrates on :
- Integrating
HIV//AIDS preventive education into the global
development agenda and national policies,
- Adapting preventive education to the diversity
of needs and contexts,
- Encouraging responsible behaviour and reducing
vulnerability,
- Exploring the ethical dimensions of the HIV//AIDS
pandemic.
Report
of the UNESCO Youth Forum 2005
General Conference 33rd session, Paris, 30 September
- 2 October 2005
Young people have come together from all over
the world to attend the 4th UNESCO Youth Forum:
184 delegates from 128 countries plus 45 observers,
making a total of 229 participants, which is the
highest number of participants ever in the history
of the UNESCO Youth Forum. Although its history
is very young, by coming together, evaluating,
strongly holding on to and defending our beliefs
as we have done, we can ensure a future for the
UNESCO Youth Forum. We are the embodiment of this
year’s theme: ‘Young people and the Dialogue amongst
Civilizations, Cultures and Peoples – ideas for
action in education, the sciences, culture and
communication’.
Living
and Learning in a World with HIV/AIDS
This kit has been prepared with students from
schools in Africa (Uganda, Gambia and South Africa).
Explanations on the illness and its transmission,
developments on prevention and the role of school,
teachers and parents. Behaviour guidelines. For
a supportive non-discriminative school environment.
UNESCO's
commitment to youth: the Youth Forum
Prepared in the follow-up of the 3rd UNESCO Youth
Forum, held 26-28 September 2003 at Headquarters.
Thanking Member States for their strong support
to the institutionalisation of the Youth Forum
as an integral part of the General Conference
and to reinforce its visibility, the brochure
gives an overview of the three UNESCO Youth Forums
held to date and features the three reports with
the young delegates' recommendations. The document
also seeks to initiate a discussion between Member
States and young people on major issues, which
will arise in the preparation of the Youth Forum
in 2005.
Empowering
Youth through National Policies: UNESCO's Contribution
A direct response to several Member States' request
for assistance in formulating and developing a
national youth policy in order to adequately respond
to young people's needs and concerns and to promote
substantial youth participation and integration
in social development.
The publication
aims to serve national decision-makers and diverse
actors of civil society as a conceptual, methodological
and practical tool in developing a viable national
youth policy in active partnership with young
people. Developed in close cooperation with UNESCO
Field Offices and Institutes (which were solicited
for their input of UNESCO 'best practice' in this
domain), the publication features examples drawn
from all regions of the world and particularly
highlights UNESCO's approach and 'best practice'.
All Different, All Unique: Young People and
the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity
The UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity
is a set of guiding principles for the creation
of a more peaceful and equitable society based
on mutual respect and tolerance. It strives to
recognise cultural diversity not as a mere fact
but as a source of innovation, exchange and creativity,
which constitute humanity's fundamental strengths.
Dakar
Youth Empowerment Strategy
The World Youth Forum, which was hosted by the
Government of Senegal, had as its central purpose
the empowerment of youth to participate more effectively
in every aspect of society.
A call for
the establishment of an Education and ICT fund
to promote North-South and South-South cooperation
was one of a number of recommendations set out
in the final document adopted by the World Youth
Forum of the United Nations System following five
days of debate and consultation between youth
groups and representatives of United Nations agencies.
Fourth Session
of the World Youth Forum of the United Nations
System, Dakar, 6-10 August 2001 >>
Website
Braga
Youth Action Plan
The key objective is to improve the channels of
communication and strengthen mechanisms for cooperation
between the United Nations system, other inter-governmental
organisations and youth organisations based on
the goal: Youth Participation for Human Development.
Third session
of the World Youth Forum of the United Nations,
Braga, Portugal, 2-6 August 1998 >>
Website
Lisbon Declaration on Youth Policies and Programmes
World
Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth,
Lisbon, Portugal 8 - 12 August 1998.
Youth
Friendly Guide to UNESCO
This small booklet is your guide through the labyrinth
of UNESCO, which won't be a labyrinth any more
after you read it! By reading this compact guide,
you learn in a clear way about UNESCO's structure,
history and activities and Youth within this international
organization. (Sept. 2001).
Information
kit : Acting with and for Youth
Contains the UN World Programme of Action for
Youth, the Lisbon Declaration and the Braga Youth
Action Plan. You can also read more about youth
participation, empowerment, research and development,
the culture of peace and about young people at
UNESCO. (Sept. 2000).
Who
is who?
Directory of International Youth-led/Youth-serving
Organisations - Youth Coordination Unit, UNESCO,
June 2002.
Strategy
for UNESCO's Action with and for Youth
The objective of our actions should therefore
be the empowerment of young people to ensure their
full participation in society as equal and valuable
partners. To empower young people is to enable
them to use the forces that they have in the service
of development: our action must be one that reaches
out to young people, responds to their concerns
and expectations, and fosters skills which are
useful and long-lasting. This approach is geared
to be comprehensive in order to address all of
youth -- a heterogeneous group in constant evolution.
World Heritage in Young Hands
New on-line learning community for students, teachers,
museum-personnel and others involved in the preservation
and promotion of cultural and natural heritage
sites from local to global levels.
World
Heritage Today, and Tomorrow with Young People
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the Section
for Youth in the Bureau of Strategic Planning
have published a trilingual brochure (English,
French, Spanish) entitled "World Heritage Today
and Tomorrow with Young People" that aims to make
young people around the world aware of the need
to protect world heritage.
youthXchange
- Training kit on responsible consumption: The
Guide
YouthXchange is a training kit on responsible
consumption. It seeks to address the need for
clear, reliable and youth oriented information
on sustainable lifestyles. It includes a training
guide, website, on-line discussions and related
workshops. These tools provide youth with the
knowledge of key concepts and empowering strategies
for more sustainable consumption patterns and
lifestyles. >>
More
information
Youth
for a Sustainable Future
YSF acts as networking mechanism
for young people in the Pacific to engage their
communities in achieving the United Nations' Millennium
Development Goals and other key international
and regional development priorities by 2015 and
beyond.
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