In this Issue of ICYO-Youth Information:

 

Ø       Delegation of Asia Europe Foundation Visited India

Ø       UNESCO Asian Youth Forum held

Ø       2^nd Asia-Europe Youth Interfaith Dialogue held

Ø       Training workshop on protection from Sexual Abuse of young people held

Ø       AYC General Assembly in Seoul, Korea

Ø       THIMUN Youth Assembly held

Ø       100-member youth delegation visited China

Ø      Youth employment experts connect through ILO's APYouthNet

Ø      Incoming Events

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ICYO- Youth Information

No. 2008/ 69

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

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ICYO - Platform of 358 Youth Organizations in India.       

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

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Delegation of Asia Europe Foundation Visited India

The two-member delegation of Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) recently visited New Delhi, India and met government officials, representatives of various religious groups and visit to Indian Committee of Youth Organizations (ICYO).

During the visit to ICYO secretarial of Mr. Ramon Molina, Director, People-to-People Exchange and Ms Katerina Ragoussi, Project Manager, People-to-People Exchange of ASEF, Mr Ravi Narayan, Secretary General of ICYO, received both with flowers.

Ms Katerina Ragoussi briefed about the P2P project and its components. Till date Asia Europe Foundation not covered India for its activities. Mr. Molina informed that now India is the member of ASEM countries therefore ASEF also extending its activities in India. ICYO assured the ASEF to extend it support for youth related activities in India as well as Asia Europe region.

The ICYO team which was present during the discussion includs Mr Vijay Bharatiya, Devinder Bhagat, Ms Pratiksha Patel and Mr Ravi Narayan.

Later on Mr. Ramon Molina and Ms Katerina Ragoussi alongwith Mr Ravi Narayan met Dr S. N. Subba Rao, Chairman, ICYO in his office at Gandhi Peace Foudation.

Mr. Molina and Ms Ragoussi appreciated the work of Mr. Rao and shown keen interest to extent it into the framework of ASEF by promoting the Gandhian philosophy. Dr Subba Rao made many suggestions for the future programmes and activities.

ASEF is entrusted with the mission to promote greater mutual understanding between the peoples of Asia and Europe through intellectual, cultural and people-to-people exchanges. Fulfilling the vital role of interface between civil society groups and governments, ASEF facilitates interactions among people from diverse fields and transmits the resulting outputs as recommendations to policy-makers. ASEF also brings civil society representatives together with bureaucrats, diplomats and other government officials for direct and open dialogue. Through ASEF, civil society concerns can be included as a vital component of official deliberations at ASEM.

The discussion with ICYO chairman, followed by launch, Others those present in the launch including Mr P.V. Rajagopal, Vice-chairman, Gandhi Peace Foundation and chairman of Ekta Parishad, Mr Babulal Sharma of SAPA.

UNESCO Asian Youth Forum held

ICYO in attendance

The 2^nd UNESCO Asian Youth Forum was held from June 26-30, 2008 in Gwangju, South Korea with the theme  “Sustainable Community in Asia”.  The Section jointly organized the Forum for Youth, Sport and Physical Education of UNESCO and the Korean National Commission for UNESCO (KNCU) attended by 36 participants and 14 observers from 21 Asian countries including India (ICYO).

During the opening ceremony Dr. Samuel Lee (Secretary General of the KNCU) delivered the opening speech, other speakers are Ms. Suzane Maree Vize (Social and Human Sciences Program Specialist, UNESCO office in Apia), Mr. Byung-hoon Lee, (Assistant Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Republic of Korea), Mr. Dae-won Kim (Vice-President, Chosun University) and Mr. Zhongwei Huang (Elected Plenary Chairperson).

The working sessions were divided cording to various sub-theme including Drug abuse; Value based education; Sexually transmitted infections; Employment; Food security.

These working groups made various recommendations and also developed the project frame to translate the recommendations in realities. Besides these five topics and plan of actions, the success of the forum was an open dialogue and cultural exchange between the young participants. Asian Cultural Youth Festival added the colours where participants exchanged their thoughts and culture from across Asia.

Ms Pratiksha attended Forum from ICYO.

2^nd Asia-Europe Youth Interfaith Dialogue held

The Asia-Europe Foundation and the Indonesian Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Religious Affairs were organized the Second Asia-Europe Youth Interfaith Dialogue in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia from the June 23 – 27, 2008.

The main objective of the Youth Interfaith Dialogue was to create and foster human networks among young people by encouraging tolerance and mutual acceptance; and to increase initiatives in the field of Asia-Europe Youth co-operation through the development of action-oriented Youth organizations and networks.

Muhammad M.Basyuni, Minister of Religious affairs Republic of Indonesia, inaugurated the Dialogue and keynote speech delivered by Mr K.H.Hasiyam Muzadi, Chairman of Nahdlatul Ulama of Indonesia.

ICYO was represent by Mr Vijay Bharatiya in the Dialogue; others who attended the event from India are Mr Devider Kumar Bhagat of Kendriya Arya Yuvak Parisad, New Delhi and Mr Manoj Mathew of Centre for Civil Society, New Delhi.

Training workshop on protection from Sexual Abuse of young people held

The training workshop on Protection of young from sexual abuse and exploitation was held on 19 July 2008 in New Delhi and attended by 38 girls from various villages and resettlement colonies of Delhi and surroundings.

Mr Ravi Narayan, Secretary General ICYO express his appreciation of young people specially young girls for come forward to join hand with ICYO to create awareness and sensitize the community on the issue of sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and youth. The increase cases of rape against children in Delhi and alarming rise in numbers of missing children show that children of Delhi are not safe and peers action may protect and prevent such activities.

The participants thanks to organizer about the informative workshop as they are facing the challenges while working for their organization in the villages.

This is the third workshop in the series of 2008. The next workshop will be held in September 2008.

AYC General Assembly in Seoul, Korea

National Council of Youth Organizations in Korea (NCYOK) will host the 10th Asian Youth Council (AYC) General Assembly and Executive Committee Meeting from 29th of July to 2nd of August 2008, in Seoul, Korea. The last AYC General Assembly was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2005. The election for the news office bearers and executive committee members will also be held during the Assembly.

ICYO is the full member of AYC and will attend the GA. Mr Ravi Narayan, Secretary General of ICYO will represent the ICYO.

Asian Youth Award 2008

In conjunction with the AYC General Assembly Asian Youth Council also give away the 2nd Asian Youth Forum 2008.

THIMUN Youth Assembly held

The 12th THIMUN Youth Assembly was held on July 6 – 11, 2008 in Hague, Netherlands attended by youth around the world.

The conference discussed various issues including Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Human Rights and Youth (HRY)

The other committee of also developed the recommendations and project during the conference.

100-member youth delegation visited China

The Third Indian Youth delegation led by Shri S. K. Arora, Secretary (Youth Affairs) visited China from 29th June to 8th July 2008 under Indo-China Youth Exchange Programme. During their stay in China, the 100 members delegation visited Beijing -Guiyang – Fuzhou and Shanghai.

This year delegation was comprises of youth representatives from nearly all the States and Union Territories of the country. It also included a rich cultural troupe and Bhangra folk artists of Punjab

The exchange programme involved interaction with local youth, visits to tourist and cultural sites and introduction to economic and social activities. In addition, it also had elements of educations value with interaction and exchanges with students and faculty member meetings with economic and political personages and interactive sessions in different areas such as culture and sports. They also visited the rural areas.

Youth employment experts connect through ILO's Asia-Pacific Knowledge Network on Youth Employment

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched the Asia-Pacific Knowledge Network on Youth Employment (APYouthNet) on 30 June 2008, with aims to connect youth employment experts from across the region.

Launched within the framework of the Asian Decent Work Decade, members are encouraged to engage in designing and implementing policies and programmes that promote decent and productive work for young men and women.

Planned features include a New Youth Employment website, an online discussion forum and events to be held for APYouthNet members.

For more information, write to moss@....

Incoming Events:

International Young Professionals Summit

3rd International Young Professionals Summit (IYPS) will be held from August 19- 22, 2008 in Manchester, UK and organized by International Young Professionals Foundation

 

For more information, log on http://www.iyps.org/iyps08/index.htm

 

 

4th World Youth Congress

The 4th World Youth Congress will be held from August 10-21, 2008 in Quebec, Canada. The title theme is Regéneration 2008.

The organizer is expected bring 600 young people from over world

For more detail log on  http://www.wyc2008.qc.ca

 

Global Youth Enterprise Conference

Date:  15-16 September 2008

Place: Washington DC, USA

Organizer: Making Cents International

Web: www.youthenterpriseconference.org.

World Urban Youth Forum

Date:  3-7 November 2008

Place: Nanjing, China

Web: http://www.unhabitat.org/content.asp?typeid=19&catid=535&cid=5581.

 

Vienna International Model United Nations (VIMUN)

Date: August 3 to 7, 2008

Place: Vienna, Austria

Organizer: United Nations Youth and Student Association of Austria & Academic Forum for Foreign Affairs (UNYSA-AUSTRIA-AFA)

Contact: vimun@...

 

Acknowledgement

The ICYO received following publications in March to June 2008, which are very useful for our documentation, research work and for planning of activities. We extended thanks on behalf of ICYO network to all the organizations those provide us these valuable newsletters/publications/ reports etc.

 

q       Yuva Udghosh, Published by Kendriya Arya Yuvak Parishad, Issue 19 & 20; March I & II, Issue 21/22 of April 23/24 of May 2008 (Hindi language)

q       Youth of India (Newsletter) – Published by: National Council of YMCAs of India, New Delhi; March 2008.

q       Asian Forum Newsletters – Published by: AFPPD, Bangkok, Thailand, January – February 2008.

q       Neeti Marg – Published by: Samvad, Bhopal, MP, India; every fortnight. (Hindi language) issue 10/1 –2 –3 March & April 2008

q       Sankalp Newsletter –Published by: International AIDS Vaccine Initiative in India, New Delhi; Vol 1(7) February 2008- March 2008

q       UNews – Published by: UN Information Centre, New Delhi, India; Vol 63, No 2, 3 & 4 February, March & April 2008.

q       World Bank in India; Magazine Published by World Bank, New Delhi, India; Vol.6/No 5; March 2008

q       NAM; HIV & AIDS Services Worldwide Directory; Published by NAM Longdon; UK; March 2008

q       Defenders; Published by Organization for Defending Victims of Violence (ODVV); February 2008.

q       Parliament Digest: Gender Food Security Governance, Social Development Indicators, Budget Session 2007; Published by National Centre for Advocacy Studies, Pune.

q       Downsizing Development; NGLS Development Dossier; Published by NGLS, United Nations

q       NGLS Roundup No. 130 (focus on Climate Change) No. 131 (focus on A World Fit for Children + 5) Published by NGLS United Nations.

q       Go Between No 115  Published by NGLS United Nations.

q       Debat Juvenil (Youth Debate); Issue 87 Spring 2008; Published by  CNJC (bilingual Spanish/English.

q       Youth Horizons, Vol. 34 Issue 2, April 2008 Published by VYK, New Delhi.

q       Dialogue; Report of the 1^st UNESCO Asian Youth Forum; Published by Korean National Commission for UNESCO.

q       Change; Report of the 42^nd International Youth Camp; Published by Korean National Commission for UNESCO.

q       Participation; International Voluntary Service; Published by Korean National Commission for UNESCO.

q       One Country, Newsletter, January –Mach 2008, Volume 19 Issue 2, Published by: Baha’i International

q       Behond Borders Newsletter- Spring 2008, Issue No 12, Published by Beyond Borders Inc, Canada.

q       Annual Report 2007, Published by Organization for Defending Victims of Violence (ODVV);

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Indian Committee of Youth Organizations (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 organizations spread in 122 districts of 22 states from different corners of India.

Our goal:
To improve and extend the youth work and services through Youth Organizations;
To enhance and demonstrate youth work in the society;
To promote effective youth programmmes;
To organize network of civil society organizations working towards the development of youth work;
To organize seminars, conferences, workshops, trainings;
To maintain international relation with organizations promoting young people in their programmes and activities

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);
 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.