ICYO –Youth Information

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Int. Youth Dialogue focused on employability and entrepreneurship

 

80 young people invited from 37 countries by GTZ in International Youth Dialogue and XV Malente Symposium on ‘youth @ work’ reflecting the growing realization that youth have a central role to play in policies affecting their lives.

 

The Int. Youth Dialogue was held in Lubec on 18 October 2004 and focused on ‘Youth and the Job Market: Prepared for each other.’ The Dialogue was the opportunity for young people to review and evaluate current international youth employment efforts and present ways of achieving successful youth participation in employment policy at country level.

 

The day long discussion was ended with the presentation and question answer session which was attended by high-level officials of GTZ and World Bank. The out come of the Dialogue later presented in XV Malente Symposium held in 19 and 20 October 2004 and attended by more than 350 delegates from all over the world. This Symposium was also the meeting point of Ministers and senior government officials from 7 of the YEN (Youth Employment Network) Lead Countries. The First meeting of first roundtable meeting of YEN Lead Country Ministers also held immediate after of this symposium.

 

Participants focused on two out of four areas of common policy intervention as identified by YEN, employability and entrepreneurship. While employability means investment in education and vocational training, youth entrepreneurship, both social and economic, has to be seen as a viable career option for young people.

 

Apart from attending the above events youth also had the opportunity to visit various youth organizations and youth projects in Germany on 21 to 23 October.

 

ICYO attended the event. 

 

HIV & AIDS Prevention among Youth – Parliament support

 

The Asian Forum in cooperation with UNFPA, IPPF and AIDCOM Malaysia has been involved in a three country project “Advocacy for HIV & AIDS Prevention among young people in Asia and Pacific.” Under this project, “Advocacy intervention package” has been prepared, which deals with issues and goals in HIV prevention, developing an advocacy plan, stakeholders analysis for advocacy, advocacy tools and techniques, and training of advocating; a trainers guide.

 

The meeting of Members of Parliaments of selected countries, youth and experts were convened in Bangkok, Thailand from 22 to 24 September 2004 by Asian Forum for Parliamentarians on Population and Development.

 

Mr. Jagannath Manda, M.P. from India presented the paper ‘Successful policy change in HIV/AIDS and RH.

 

Mr Ravi Narayan, Secretary General of ICYO also invited and attended the event.

 

Youth should take responsibility of nation building

 - Arjun Singh, HRD Minister

 

The time is come when Youth should take responsibility rather look for others for nation building and development of young, said Mr Arjun Singh, Minister of Human Resource and Development. He was addressing on 2^nd December to 500 youth attending National Youth Peace Camp held in Delhi from 26 November to 3 December 2004. This camp was attended by youth from 22 states of India

 

He presented compliments to young people for taking lead in creating peace and harmony under the leadership of Dr Subba Rao. Mr Sunil Dutt, Minister for Youth and Sports promise for all support from Youth ministry for national integration programmes undertaken by young people.

 

Mr. Arjun Singh on his residence invited all the participants of camp on 2nd December and attended by numbers of ministers and members of parliament. The all religions prayer and musical drama in 18 languages are the main events of the evening.

 

ICYO attended the event.

 

World Bank President discussed youth issues with Indian Youth

 

Mr. James D. Wolfensohn, President of World Bank committed in World Bank Conference on Youth Development and Peace (YDP) to work with youth organizations worldwide to achieve the goal set in first conference held in 2003 at Paris for poverty reduction. The Conference was held in September 2004 at Sarajevo, Bosnia.

 

To keep his promise and commitment he invited youth leaders from ICYO for meeting during his visit to India. First Country Director for India welcomes every in meeting. Than Mr. Wolfensohn talk about the their commitments to words the youth and share some experiences while visiting the youth project around the world.

 

World Bank work in development sector to bridge the gap, he said. He further clarified that he is not here to be patronizing the youth but work with youth.

 

Pressing on the Youth issues he said “Youth is not the ‘Future’; it is the ‘Now’-unless the youth has hope and opportunity there can be no hope for peace” he told the ICYO delegates. He said that World Bank should reach out and address the questions that the young people face.

 

Mr. Wolfensohn praised the youth delegation for coming ahead with ideas and initiatives to work with the bank on social challenges saying that ‘we should formulate ideas in which we can act rather than just thinking about these issues’.

 

World Bank has opened the door and the channel for social dialogue and initiating a close network with such youth organizations to work he also applauded the youth initiative already in place in India, he said.

 

Mr. Ravi Narayan, Secretary General of Indian Committee of Youth Organizations (ICYO) shared the outcomes of World Bank’s Conference on Youth Peace and Development held in Sarajevo (attend by ICYO member organizations) including the Plan of Action adopted by Conference. Mr Ravi also reminded the commitments made by Mr Wolfensohn during the concluding session.

 

He also gave brief account on development till date in implement of Plan of Action. Mr Ravi inform that ICYO is already disseminating the information to youth organization and soon start working to involved the youth organizations to work on implementation on PoA. He explain to President, about the process and future plan to achieve the concrete result in the field of youth development. The process of formation the loose network to work with WB and its progress also discussed.

 

The students from Delhi Economic Student Forum talk about the problem of child labour and violence against working children. AIESCE, IIT representative informed about their contribution to improve the skill and increase the job opportunity through placement though-out the world. BYST informed the enterpreneour development progarmme. Some young women leaders raise the alarm against the HIV/AIDS and suggested to work on successful case study to replicate. The President shows solidarity but add that news initiative should not be rule out. Mr Prafful Patel, Vice President, South Asia region, WB offer to make available the video conference facilities to share and learn the best practices from other countries to increase the capacity of youth working on specific areas.

 

Representative from people with disabilities raise their concern about margin money while they wanted to start bank, bank is not even open the account.  Mr Wolfensohn encouraged the youth leader and suggested to develop the programme to work on issue raised during the meeting.

 

The main focus of this meeting was to discuss future prospects on how the bank and the youth together can work to solve the existing issues and challenges in the country like HIV/AIDS, poverty, unemployment, peace and disabilities.

 

This initiative opens the door of communication with World Bank for Youth organizations. On the issue of formation of loose network, ICYO further discussed the matter with WB officials and youth organizations of other countries through tele-conference.

 

Draft World Youth Report 2005 released

 

The advance unedited text of the Secretary General's World Youth Report released and is available online. It provides an evaluation of the progress achieved in the implementation of the World Programme of Action for Youth (WPAY) since its adoption in 1995. It reviews the global situation of young people with regard to the fifteen priority areas for youth education, employment, poverty, health, environment, drugs, delinquency, leisure, girls and young women, participation, ICT, globalization, HIV/AIDS, conflict and intergenerational issues. The report will be discussed by the 43rd session of Commission for Social Development (CSD) in 9-18 February 2005, before it is submitted to the General Assembly in October 2005.

 

Symposium on Youth Employment and Globalization held in Tokyo

 

On 2 and 3 December 2004, United Nations University (UNU), ILO, and others convened an international symposium on "Globalization and the Future of Youth in Asia - Creating Working Opportunities and Enabling Environment for Young People". During the symposium views and experiences were exchanged among relevant organizations and civil society groups seeking to promote decent work for young people.

 

ATSEC – Delhi Meeting held

 

The meeting of the members of ATSEC –Delhi chapter held in at STOP office on 20 December 2004. The member of the group finalized the various events for next three months. ICYO attended the meeting.

 

Boom in internet cause increase paedophilia  

     -  Carmen Madrinan, Exe. Dir., ECPAT Int.

 

The sexual exploitation of children is becoming increasingly widespread because of the greater reach of the internet, the involvement of organized crime, economic pressures and the impact of HIV/AIDS, are the issues raised in a UN-organized conference in Bangkok.

 

Experts warned that unless governments translate the many recently passed laws on the issue into action, millions more children could end up in sexual slavery. "In most respects it's getting worse as the forces driving sexual exploitation become more powerful," said Gopalan Balagopal, a child protection adviser with the UN's children's body UNICEF.

 

The ILO estimates that 1.2 million children are trafficked annually while the number of children thought to be sexually exploited is much greater than that.

 

The majority of exploited children are young teenagers but Mr Balagopal said it was not uncommon to find children as young as nine years old.

 

Ms Carmen Madrinan, Executive Director of ECPAT International said the boom in internet paedophilia was not restricted to developed nations. "What we're seeing now is that even in places with lower connectivity, such as in Asia, the exploitation is growing very very rapidly," she said.

 

Representatives of 20 Asian countries and the United Nations commenced this conference to examine the problem of child trafficking.

 

National Youth Commission to be close.

 

The Council of Ministers of India recently recommended to dissolve the National Youth Commission.

 

Night shelter for women of Delhi

The Municipal Commissioner, Rakesh Mehta inaugurated the women's night shelter in Delhi. This shelter has an initial capacity of 20 inmates at present.

Another night shelter home also inaugurated by Mr Mehta at Yamuna Pushta. This home has the capacity of 400 inmates.

More than 3,200 missing women are untraced every year in India

 

At least 15,407 children from six Indian cities go missing every year, according to data from the autonomous National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) published recently.

 

More than 3,200 women are untraced every year, a team of experts at NHRC said, confirming the alarming rate of trafficking of women and children in the country.

 

Yet, only 60 per cent of missing person's cases are reported to the police and state governments were doing little to stop trafficking, the experts said, adding that 40 per cent of police officers did not have any knowledge about laws to prevent trafficking.

 

Incoming events:

 

CSD will review the World Programme of Action for Youth

 

Event: 43rd session, Commission for Social Development

Place: New York

Date: 9-18 February 05.

Organizer: ECOSOC Commission for Social Development.

The ECOSOC Commission for Social Development will meet to review of the World Programme of Action for Youth in its 43re session, as the Commission will discuss the Secretary-General's World Youth Report 2005, before it is submitted to the General Assembly in the fall of 2005. It is expected that a panel discussion on the global situation of youth will be held on Monday 14 February 2005.

 

Event: World Youth Congress

Place: Scotland.

Date: 30 July to 8 August 2005

Contact: jamie.wakefield@...

 

Event: Int. Women and Health Meeting 2005
Place: New Delhi.

Date: 21-25 September 2005.

Contact: samasaro@...

Event: 4th international disciplinary conference on Gender, Work and Organization.

Place: Keele University, Staffordshire, Central England.

Date:  22-24 June 2005.
Contact: mna23@...

 

Event: 2nd International Forum on Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Advancing Implementation on Water and Energy
Place: Marrakech, Morocco.
Date: 21-23 March 2005.

Organizer: Moroccan Ministry of Territory Planning, Water and Environment.

Contact: forum@...

Event: Gender mainstreaming course (GOAL)
Place: Wageningen, Netherlands
Date: 7-25 February 2005.

Organizer: IAC

Web: www.iac.wur.nl

 

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