Alliance Youth Camp

28 October- 2 November 2007
Baku, Azerbaijan

The Islamic Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation announces the launching of the “Alliance Youth Camp” and Intergenerational Alliance Conference on October 28 to November 2, 2007 in Baku, Azerbaijan to be hosted by H.E. Mehriban Aliyeva, UNESCO and ISESCO Goodwill Ambassador and President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation.

During the Alliance of Youth Camp, a pool of high profile names in the academe, arts and social activities will train a 45-member group of young leaders from Western, OIC and East Asian countries gathered in “Alliance” Youth Camp in historical, political, and socio-cultural aspects of interaction between different civilizations as well as in issues related to diversity and richness of cultures in the West and the East. The Initiative will culminate in Intergenerational Conference between influential policy-makers and the youth leaders on the prospects of the UN “Alliance of Civilizations” to be held on November 1 to 2, 2007 and will conclude with the adoption of an “Intergenerational Declaration on the Alliance of Civilizations.”

For more details/information, please contact Islamic Conference Youth Forum at:

http://www.icyf.com/

VII International Human Rights Colloqium

3-10 November
Sao Paolo, Brazil

Since 2001, the Colloquium has provided an annual human rights capacity-building and networking opportunity in Sao Paulo. It has brought together over 600 activists and academics within the human rights community from over 40 countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa. Many participants have continued to share information and join efforts in working for shared human rights priorities through the Human Rights Dialogue Network and Sur - Human Rights University Networks.

The VII Colloquium is supported by the Ford Foundation and the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), among others.

How to continue working together after the Colloquium?
HRDialogue is a network of human rights activists and professionals working in the Global South (Africa, Asia and Latin America) that seeks to:

"Strengthen the voice and impact of human rights advocates from the South for the global recognition and realization of human rights."

The network is an initiative of participants of the International Human Rights Colloquium.

Members promote ongoing dialogue, exchange experiences and act to:

Enhance activities and capabilities of human rights advocates
Strengthen the impact of human rights organizations, and
Stimulate joint action and articulation in the Global South
Who takes part in the HRDialogue?

The network today is composed of more than 633 members from 49 countries.

http://www.conectas.org/coloquio/home_en.html

Global Youth Forum on Development 2008

6-12 April 2008
Nairobi, Kenya

This will be an annual event that brings young people of 35 years and below to show case to the world what they can do. The proposed forum seeks to create a platform for the youth to network and build partnerships amongst themselves. It will also provide an opportunity for the youth to share experiences lessons learnt best/promising practices and challenges from the different sector(s) they are engaged in towards towards hastening the realization of Millenium Development Goals 2015 (MDG 2015).

Specific objectives
· To share experiences in their area of operations
· To network with other like minded
·To show case their activities through seminars presentation, Posterpresentations and exhibitions.
· Networking and building partnership
· Working together for greater impact
· Sharing experience and know how.
· To show case their activities through seminars presentation, poster presentation and exhbition

What we intend to achieve
· Strengthen relationship between the youth in different regions
· Enhanced collaboration and partnership between civil society, private sector and the governments for a common goal - service to the youth.
· Bring the youth together to show case their activities and strengthen partnership networking and collaborating among themselves and private sector and governments.
· Ideas and policies towards
· Ensure effective delivery of services through collaborating and networking.
· Create an enabling environment for best practices

Main goal: build the capacity of our fellow youth and facilitate the process where undiscovered potential can be utilized to ensure continuous growth of the youth in all aspects.

Gender equality promotion
To ensure greater gender equity and girls empowerment and influence in all levels of development process

Policy research and advocacy unit
·To build capacities to identify and pursue research and advocacy agenda
·To build alliances, networks and coalitions to push the anti-poverty agenda
·To engage policy makers and influence policy making in favour of the youth.

Education for all campaign
To ensure endorsement and implementation of the laws that ensures universal quality free basic education by focusing on childhood, primary and secondary education.

Basic rights campaign
Ensuring enshrinement of the right to food, education, water, healthcare, housing and information.Creating an enabling environment in which government agencies and communities can jointly regulate resource use.

· GYFOD Mission statement: - committed to the integration of gender perspective in all government policies and programmes to remove obstacles to youth participation in public life and decision making at all levels

Mission
GYFOD2008 acknowledges that youth are creative and innovative. We strive to empower young people how they can tap into positive forces and existing youth business networks through tangible, cost effective, sustainable projects by promoting growth and the Youth capacity to utilize the available resources and opportunities for sustained benefits of the youth themselves.

Vision:-
GYFOD2008 envisions a world where all young people take the lead as active participants in deciding and change at all levels of development and policy making; enabling more speedy reaction and effectual change in societies by naturing and developing themselves to realize their maximum potential in restoring the impaired and marginalized youth capacity through facilitating the process of maximum utilization of available reasons with supplement of minimum external resources

website: http://www.gyfod2008.org/
email: info@dakahumas.org

International Young Professional Summit 2008

19-22 August 2008
Manchester, UK

IYPS2008 is the international gathering of the International Young Professionals Foundation. It is an event for all young professionals (IYPF members or not) who are or want to be positive change makers in their local and global community. It will be an entry point for new members, investors and friends in the work of IYPF.

Delegates will be talented and committed young professionals in developing and developed countries who are committed to or interested in developing and applying their skills, knowledge, resources and capacities to be positive change makers in their local and global community.

Delegates who attend the Summit will have the following attributes:

Ability to effect environmental and social change through their occupations, skills and initiatives

Possess a good understanding of global, regional or local issues in any of the Summit theme and sub-theme areas

Typically have links to and/or the support of home country or international organisations

They will be bound by a common passion for using their skills and knowledge for the betterment of our world. The Summit organising committee values diversity and will strive to balance the selection of delegates from locations around the world. The delegate mix is expected to be geographically and demographically diverse. For example, delegates might include high school teachers from Thailand, water engineers in Australia, community workers from Zambia or lawyers from the USA. Delegates must however be between 18 and 35 years old.

website: http://www.iyps.org/iyps08/index.htm

email: iyps2008@iypf.org

42nd International Youth Camp

9-19 August 2007
Korea

What is the International Youth Camp (IYC)?
In response to the recommendation to emphasize youth programmes put forth by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at the 13th session of its General Conference, the Korean National Commission for UNESCO (KNCU) launched in 1966 the International Youth Camp (IYC), which has since become an annual tradition of the KNCU. Since its inception, IYC has enriched the lives of approximately 4,000 youths from over 80 countries through programmes designed to foster international understanding and promote peace, human rights, cultural diversity, and sustainable development.

The 42nd International Youth Camp
Under the theme “Unite Youth, Create Change” the 42nd International Youth Camp will focus on the ‘change’ that youth can bring about in society. Young people, with their energy, passion, creativity and idealism, have the enormous potential to turn their common vision of positive social change into a reality. Recognizing their invaluable partnership role, IYC calls on youth to participate and take action today. Through various programmes such as thematic workshops, intercultural exchanges, field studies, and discussions on global and local issues, the 11-day camp will be a multicultural encounter and meeting point for young people from different national, ethnic, cultural, religious and socio-economic backgrounds. In keeping with annual tradition, this year’s camp will continue to serve as an opportunity for participants to realize their own vision for the future by working with others toward the common goal of creating a more just and sustainable world.

Information for Applicants

● Theme: Unite Youth, Create Change!
● Date: 9-19 August 2007
● Venue: Korea UNESCO Peace Center in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province & 11 Field Study Sites
● Participants: 120 (30 Koreans, 90 International)
● Requirements for Participation
- Age: Young people between 18-27 years old.
- Language: The official language of the camp will be English. Campers need not be fluent but must be able to communicate reasonably well in English.
- Participation fee: US$250 must be paid upon registration at the camp. The fee covers the cost of accommodations and meals. Please note that the fee does not include transportation costs to the meeting point in Seoul.
● Application / Notification of Selection
- Applicants must send their completed application form and letter of motivation to the Korean National Commission for UNESCO by mail, fax, or email no later than 13 July. The application form is available for download at: http://youth.unesco.or.kr/iyc
- All applications will undergo a thorough review process. Upon notification of their selection, campers and their sponsoring organizations will be sent further information about IYC. Please note that individuals without sponsorship are also welcome to apply.
● Certificate
Each participant will be awarded a certificate of completion upon conclusion of the camp.

for more info:
www.youth.unesco.or.kr/iyc

or for application forms:
email youngglobalpinoys@gmail.com

ASEAN Students Engaging Action for Local and Regional Contribution to Society

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University of Indonesia
August 2007

The ASEAN Foundation (AF) is funding the project “ASEAN Students Engaging Action for Local and Regional Contribution to Society(ASEAN Logics)”, which the University of Indonesia (UI) is implementing on August 2007.

Four slots per ASEAN member country is available for full sponsorship (roundtrip ticket, meals, accommodation and other expenses). Deadline for application is 22 June 2007.

If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact UI or AF.


Ms. Renelle Ivy Adan
The ASEAN Foundation
2 Jl Sam Ratulangi, Menteng
Jakarta 10350 Indonesia

Tel 62.21.3192.4833 ext 104
Fax 62.21.3192.6078

www.aseanfoundation.org

Student Writing Competition: Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on the Human Rights of Women

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center
for Human Rights and Justice Announces
A Student Writing Competition for the
Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship
on the Human Rights of Women

Deadline: June 15, 2007


The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at The University of Texas School of Law is pleased to announce the third annual Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on the Human Rights of Women. The $1,000 prize will be awarded to the
winner of an interdisciplinary writing competition on international human rights and women. In addition, the winning author may have the possibility of publishing the paper in the Texas International Law Journal.

The prize honors the work of Audre Rapoport, who has spent many hours dedicated to the advancement of women in the United States and internationally, particularly on issues of reproductive health. It is also meant to further the Bernard and
Audre Rapoport Center’s mission to build a multidisciplinary community engaged in the study and practice of human rights that promotes the economic and political enfranchisement of marginalized individuals and groups both locally and globally.

The scope of the topic is broad. We welcome papers, from any discipline, that address the human rights of women from an international, transnational, or comparative perspective. The selection committee will be multidisciplinary and international,comprising faculty from areas such as law, anthropology, literature, and government.

Last year’s winning paper was entitled “‘Orphans’ or Veterans? Justice for Children Born of War in East Timor.” Its author, Susan Harris Rimmer, proposes a rights-based
framework for East Timor's sexual violence survivors and their children,namely, a re-characterization of the affected women and their children as “veterans” of the conflict, with the same status as the former Falintil guerrillas.

Papers should be between 8,000 and 15,000 words and must be in English.The submission must consist of original work, and submitting authors must have rights to the content. To be eligible for the competition, the author must either be an enrolled student or have graduated from a university within the past year.

All submissions must be accompanied by an abstract of 100 to 250 words and must be submitted in .rtf or .doc format (no .zip files will be accepted). Bluebook citation format will be required if the winning author requests submission to the Texas International Law Journal. Submissions should indicate availability for publication.

The completed manuscript, abstract, and author contact details should besubmitted by e-mail to HumanRights@law.utexas.edu by June 15, 2007. The winner will be notified by
the end of the summer.

Sarah M. Cline
Center Administrator
Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for
Human Rights and Justice
University of Texas School of Law
727 E. Dean Keeton St.
Austin, TX 78705
Mail Code: D1800
512-232-4857
scline@law.utexas.edu