Full Coverage: Youth

25.10.2004 Peace Unlimited Festival, organized by Civil NGO from Skopje, starts today in the Hall 5 of the Skopje Fair. The festival will last till October 31, 2004.

22.10.2004 The informal group of nongovernmental, nonpartisan and nonprofit organizations and global and European student services in Macedonia, Students for Themselves, informed about their intention to boycott the Student Elections for President of the Student Organization of the “Kiril i Metodi” University in Skpoje. The Elections are scheduled for Saturday, October 28, 2004, and the boycott is designed to take away the legitimacy of the nondemocratic students’ organization.

20.10.2004 Raed Jarrar’s (26-year old graduate student in architecture) response to the Iraq war was to start a web log to showcase the pluralistic Iraqi society and why “we don’t need someone from the outside to come and solve our problems.” Blogging in a time of war has helped him to turn anger into understanding and, to reach out to Americans and Europeans “so they understand what is happening in Iraq.”

19.10.2004 Soutenez les efforts d'Aide à l'enfance - Canada pour lutter contre le trafic de milliers d'enfants qui travaillent dans des fermes de cocoa dans des conditions dangereuses et d'exploitation.

18.10.2004 Campaigners from Africa, the US and the UK visit 15 UK universities, 25 October to 5 November, to talk about their personal experiences of AIDS and young peopleÂ’s efforts to combat the epidemic.

18.10.2004 A recently released report by UNICEF says spiraling alcohol and injectible drug use has caused a significant percentage of deaths of young males in countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

15.10.2004 At least 14 Kosovan schoolchildren have died when the bus taking them home from a school holiday in Albania collided with a car and plunged off a bridge. The driver of the car also died in the accident, local authorities said.
Around 50 teenagers, all ethnic Kosovan Albanians, were returning home after visiting historical sites.

14.10.2004 Recognizing the need to develop the inter-youth dialogue, the Democratic Youth Initiative (DYI) and CARE International started a project for cooperation of the political parties youth organizations and youth NGOs, with the goal to improve the cooperation in dealing with mutual problems on local level.

14.10.2004 About 500 students of the Banja Luka University protested yesterday in front of the RS Government Building. The students are dissatisfied with the high tuition fees, inadequate accommodation and lack of transparency in the adaptation of the former military barracks “Vrbas” which will soon become a student dormitory campus.

13.10.2004 In reaction to the results of the latest free democratic elections in Serbia of September/October 2004, we organized the campaign of tying the eyes of the monuments dedicated to prominent persons from our cultural history.

12.10.2004 The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, based in Indian capital New Delhi, invite students to participate in a student workshop which precedes the conference and act as public rapporteurs to the conference. Last Date for applications is October 15, 2004.

11.10.2004 Economists have urged the Indian government to enact an Employment Guarantee Act (EGA) so that the nearly 30 per cent poor people in the country can overcome hunger and poverty.

11.10.2004 As the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case that will review the constitutionality of death penalty for juveniles this week, three former surgeons-general joined hundreds of medical and adolescent child development experts to endorse the “Call to Abolish” campaign. Organized by Physicians for Human Rights, the campaign reflects the widespread consensus of the scientific community against the execution of juveniles in the United States.

04.10.2004 Cintia Arantes, a recent graduate from an AED employability training project for very poor young people in Recife, Brazil, was featured on the cover of the Sept. 27 international edition of Business Week. The accompanying story, which also ran in the U.S. edition, focused on the future of technology in nations such as Brazil, India, and China.

03.10.2004 Medical experts from seven countries and the human rights group Amnesty International have sent an open letter to the governments of China, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Philippines, Iran, Sudan and the U.S.A urging them to stop using the death penalty against children.

01.10.2004 During his visit in Vienna, the Minister of Education, Rexhep Osmani, received a promise from Austrian authorities for helping Kosova education. He met there his Austrian counterpart, Elisabeth Gehrer, with whom he discussed concrete forms of cooperation and support in the area of education.