Around the world, young people have been making one-minute videos in UNICEF-hosted OneMinutesJr. workshops. Eager to express themselves, youth participants share their viewpoints on subjects such as disabilities, juvenile justice, violence, their future and their lives. Now, 15 of these filmmakers are nominees for the 2013 OneMinutesJr. Awards and have been invited to Amsterdam, the […]
The United Nations is asking college and university students to write an essay in one of its six official languages on the role of multilingualism in a globalized world. The contest, ‘Many Languages, One World,’ supports international education and multilingualism through the continued study of Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Information about the […]
Following last month’s terrorist attack against the Westmall shopping mall in Nairobi, the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, Ahmad Alhendawi, yesterday visited the site to pay his respect to the numerous victims of this senseless act of violence. Earlier in the day, he participated in a roundtable on youth in conflict and post-conflict situations, an event […]
The UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth Ahmad Alhendawi is set to pay an official visit to Azerbaijan, to speak at the open ceremony of the first Model United Nations Security Council, as well as to meet with government officials and youth organizations. The following is Alhendawi’s welcoming message to the participants of the MUN conference: Ministers […]
The Envoy on Youth Ahmad Alhendawi is on a week-long official mission to Africa, where he will visit Kenya and Ethiopia, to conduct a series of meetings with UN and African Union (AU) officials, as well as with local youth groups. On Monday morning, Alhendawi met with the Director of the UN Office in Nairobi […]
For the first time in its 12-year history, the outcomes of the 8th UNESCO Youth Forum to be presented to the UNESCO General Conference will include, besides strategic recommendations, 15 youth-led action projects (three projects per each of the five UNESCO regions). The independent international jury has shortlisted 45 action projects that will be discussed […]
On the occasion of the 8th UNESCO Youth Forum, the International Student Identity Card Association (ISIC) has launched a youth photo competition. The aim of the competition is to bring photos that illustrate the work of young people around the world, specifically in relation to this year’s UNESCO Youth Forum “Youth and Social Inclusion: Civic […]
Ten young people from around the world will be honoured with a United Nations award recognizing their work as entrepreneurs and use of technology to change the world. The recipients of the 10 Young Innovators Competition organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom come from a wide range of countries including India, Uganda and Viet Nam […]
How can we measure the urgency of environmental problems in our community? Over the past few months, UNICEF has asked young people between the age of 18 and 25 to help them test out a new feature to UNICEF’s mapping platform – which visualizes the severity of citizen reports. Fifty youth innovators from over 40 […]
Boosting shared prosperity will require a jobs revolution among young people, yet many of them face significant difficulties in finding productive employment. On October 10, 2013, the World Bank Group, together with stakeholders from the public sector, civil society, and the private sector, will launch a collaboration and open dialogue on how to fill the gaps […]
