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Eurasia

Building peace in Georgia, step-by-step: The importance of youth participation

Successful peacebuilding depends on involving young people. Governments, international organisations and NGOs often focus on how young people are endangered by armed conflict and are at risk of taking up arms in future violence...
by Nicholas Barker
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Balkans

Football Beyond Borders Balkans Tour Day 8 – East Sarajevo

As a charity of only five years, we know the value of solid, long-lasting partnerships between like-minded organisations. One of these was forged the day before in Ilidza, south-west of Sarajevo, when we agreed to work with KUL...
by James Appleby
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Europe

The EU is Creating a Lost Generation

The European efforts to avert a lost generation will fail. Unless we really improve Europe’s competitiveness and invest in the future, the young will become fed up with the EU. If you’re young in Europe, you will have a dif...
by Joop Hazenberg
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Africa

Liberia: Yet To Adopt a National Youth Policy

Youth all around the globe are the pillar upon which a successful nation leans; in another term the youth are the foundation of a society, their fortitude and tenacity to engage into progressive social–economic activities set...
by Joe Wilson
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Changemaker of the Week

Changemaker of the Week: Wacky Rymel and Beat The Streets

Faced with the high crime rate of his local community, an estate in Hackney, East London, 16 year old Wacky Rymel grabbed an opportunity with two hands. Dancing since the age of 6, Wacky felt that much of the gun and knife crim...
by Jessica Trevis
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Europe

Take A Chance on Us: Young People Deserve Investment

Young people today are at the centre of a huge international crisis. Youth unemployment rates continue to soar globally, and many young people are finding themselves lost within their own societies. Our voices are not being hea...
by Scott Forbes
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Asia
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UNICEF India Sounds the ‘Red Siren’ to #ENDviolence Against Children

A new social media campaign from UNICEF India is seeking to raise awareness and mobilize a collective effort to #ENDviolence against children, with special focus on sexual violence against girls. On 19 August 2013, UNICEF Ind...
by Aparna Ray
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Africa

Focus on Africa: Kenya’s Education Proposition

After intense bargaining, Kenya’s treasury has finally submitted to salary increase demands, successfully bringing to an end the month long industrial action by teachers from the nation’s public schools. As the teachers lau...
by George Gachara
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Green

COP18: The curious case of intergenerational justice

Imagine if world leaders were to age in reverse. Imagine if they were born with the physical maladies of an 85-year-old. Imagine it they were just like Benjamin Buttons, Brad Pitt’s title role in The Curious Case of Benjami...
by Beatrice Yeung
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