ICYO – Youth Information  November 2006 - III

                      (E-Newsletter from network of youth organizations in India)

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ICYO - Platform of 356 Youth Organizations in India.       

ICYO - India’s largest network of urban and rural youth.

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United Nations Youth Summit Concludes

Hundreds of young people committed to supporting development goals at the end of the three-day U.N. Global Youth Leadership Summit.

The summit involved discussions, debate, concerts and seminars at U.N. World Headquarters in New York focusing on how best to attain the Millennium Development Goals, especially using sport and culture to encourage youth to get more involved in the global battle for development.

"Sport can be a powerful tool for efforts to achieve the MDGs and I hope all of you will seek ways to take advantage of that potential," said Adolf Ogi, special adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on sport for development and peace in his closing statement.

The MDGs are a series of targets set by the Millennium Summit, seeking to reduce extreme poverty, hunger, maternal and infant mortality, lack of access to education and other social ills by 2015.

The youth delegates comprised a young woman and young man from nearly every one of the 192 U.N. member states. They now return home to be spokespersons for the goals.

Youth Information is published by

Indian Committee of Youth Organizations (ICYO)

194-A, Arjun Nagar, Safdarjang Enclave

New Delhi 110029, India

Phone: 91 9811729093  / 91 11 26183978 Fax 91 11 26198423

Email: icyoindia@... / icyo@...

Web:  www.icyo.in

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ICYO is a registered non-profit, non-governmental network organization, committed in developing areas of mutual cooperation and understanding among different youth voluntary agencies, youth groups, clubs and individuals working in the field of youth welfare in India. 

 

ICYO functions as an umbrella organization of youth NGOs in India. It's family consists of over 356 Orgs spread in 122 districts of 22 states from different corners of India.

 

Affiliation:  Consultative (Roster) Status with ECOSOC, United Nations;
Consultative Status with Commission on Sustainable Development;
Full Member of World Assembly of Youth (WAY); Asian Youth Council (AYC);
Youth for Habitat International Network (YFHIN); CRIN, South Asia Youth
Environment Network (SAYEN), Affiliate group of ECPAT International, Thailand;
ATSECE-DELHI, Indian Partner of AIDS Care Watch Campaign;
Steering Committee member of World Bank's YDP Network;
Working relation with Indian Association of Parliamentarians (IAPPD);
International Medical Parliamentarians Organizations (IMPO);
Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD);
World Youth Foundation, Malaysia.