Children and Youth Forum

17 Mar, 2015

On disaster resilience, ‘we must listen to those who know their communities’ says UNICEF Director General Anthony Lake

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Children and youth are a major part of community-level responses to disasters and must play an important role in risk reduction, United Nations officials said today in Sendai, Japan, with the head of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) challenging a gathering of youth representatives to demand that they be involved in processes that impact them.

13 Mar, 2015

UN Youth Envoy engages with youth at World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Japan

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During the opening and closing remarks of the Children and Youth Forum of the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, Alhendawi emphasized the importance of the role of young people as critical players in disaster response. 200 children and youth from around the World were invited to participate in the discussion around the implication of