ICYO- Youth Information

No. 2008/ 91

(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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State of the World Population 2008 released by UNFPA

Youth gets space in Supplement

The United Nations Population Fund called in an annual report published Wednesday for women's rights to be advanced and steps to be taken to eliminate gender inequality around the world.

Sixty percent of the world's one billion poorest people are women and girls; two-thirds of the 960 million adults around the world who cannot read are women, and 70 percent of children who do not go to school are girls, the State of World Population 2008 report says.

Because cultures help to mold the way people live with each other and influence their understanding of development, building women's rights will be easier if agents of change remain sensitive to the local culture, the report says.

"Agencies ignore culture at their peril. Advancing human rights requires an appreciation of the complexity, fluidity and centrality of culture by intentionally identifying and partnering with local agents of change," it says.

"Culturally sensitive approaches understand and work with a community's views: for example, about what it signifies when a woman or a couple does not reproduce; the effect of contraception on a woman's ability to conceive; or on a man's view of what makes up his 'manhood'," the report says in the section focusing on reproductive rights and birth control.

Youth Supplement

This year again Youth Supplement title 'Generation of Change" Young People and Culture' also released with the SWPR 2008. we are enclosing herewith the full supplement in pdf format. Your comments are welcome. (ICYO-Youth Information)

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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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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.