Full Coverage: Youth

22.12.2004 The Challenge: Using Flash (a poplular website movie-maker), show us a global problem that you care about and give us your global solution. Get ready to be impressed, entertained, and enlightened by responses to issues from climate change to AIDS and child soldier recruitment.

21.12.2004 The organization Kids with Cameras uses photography and documentary filmmaking as a way to empower children in conflict zones and situations of extreme poverty around the world. A new film tells the story of the group's birth.

20.12.2004 Interim report of the ad hoc working group for youth and the MDGs evaluates the challenges and opportunities for Implementation. An international team of youth experts from various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worked together to formulate this Report. You could submit your feedback untill Jan 10, 2004.

• Author/Publisher: Consultation
• Area Focus: Global
• Type: Consultation Report
• Year Published: Nov 2004

20.12.2004 One alternative gift possibility will help AIDS-affected orphans in Zambia go to school this year.

13.12.2004 Young Intellectuals, Hope (IRSH) Association, in collaboration with Albanian Youth Parliament Shkoder, organised on December 8, the Youth Day, a "Poetry & Rock Party". This date coincides with the birthday of the famous rock man Jim Morrison, and the activity was held at Enjoy Pub in Shkoder.

09.12.2004 "Note: We no longer live in a continental cocoon. It is not enough to learn about 'foreigners.' We can learn 'from and with' distant friends, and by doing so - we can open doors." Teachers without Borders is connecting students worldwide, through photography, storytelling, and technology.

08.12.2004 A friendship with a priest from Africa inspired Alex Hill, a 17-year-old from Michigan, to raise awareness and resources to meet the medical needs of a village in Uganda. 16-year old Maura Welch from New York has been working to improve the lives of child laborers around the world. Meet all of this year's honorees for NetAid's Global Action Awards.

07.12.2004 ILO will soon set up new vocational training spots for employment generation in conflict-hit Afghanistan to deal with rampant unemployment in the country.

07.12.2004 "It is immoral for the security of any country to be based on the threat of global annihilation," exclaims 16-year old Emma Thompsell, in her award-winning essay laying out the moral, economic, and security reasons for the U.S. to take the lead in nuclear disarmament. "I speak on behalf of the youth of the world and for the children and generations to come," she says in her mock address to the American people, president, and Congress.

03.12.2004 The goal of this exchange programme, supported by the United States Institute for Peace, is to establish communication between the youth from Kosovo and Serbia. The process of getting to know each other, the war stories, exchange of experience and learning should help the youth to break the circle of hatred and build a better future for the region.

02.12.2004 Even the Queen came out for the inauguration of Jordan's first "Computer Clubhouse," a state-of-the-art technology center where young people will find a supportive learning environment to build skills and self-confidence, working together with adult mentors who provide inspiration and serve as role models.

01.12.2004 Over three million children at tens of thousands of schools in over 50 countries around the world will participate in a "Lesson for Life" on World AIDS Day as part of a massive effort to educate young people about HIV/AIDS prevention and empower them to help stem the tide of the epidemic.

01.12.2004 The World Food Program and World Vision are launching an effort to promote school feeding--a largely untapped yet effective way to attract children to school and stem HIV/AIDS infections among the young.