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Native Youth Suicides in Canada Reach Crisis Rate

Suicide rates are now five to seven times higher for First Nations youth than for non-aboriginal youth, according to Health Canada, and among Inuit youth, suicide rates are 11 times the national average. Some aboriginal bands have suicide rates over 800 times the national average (IPS, 12 December 2007).

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40448

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World Youth Report 2003: The global situation of young people (pdf)

The World Youth Report 2003 provides an overview of the global situation of young people. The first 10 chapters focus on the priority areas identified by the World Programme of Action for Youth (WPAY) , adopted by the General Assembly in 1995. The remaining five chapters address some of the newer issues that were later identified as additional priorities for youth and were adopted by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in 2003.

http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unyin/wyr/index.html

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2008 CIVICUS Youth Assembly

The CIVICUS Youth Assembly takes place from 16-21 June 2008 in Glasgow, Scotland and will build on the fantastic success of the 2007 Youth Assembly, with more extensive participation and even more delegate places. Delegates will again be assisted to attend, with accommodation, food, programme events and CIVICUS delegate fees sponsored. This year we are also delighted to offer a limited number of travel bursaries Space is limited, and delegate places will be awarded to the strongest applicants from around the world.Deadline for applications: 31 March 2008

http://www.rnw.org.uk/CIVICUS2008.aspx

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A Toolkit for Pacific Youth: Localising the MDGs

This is the first Pacific specific MDG action toolkit aiming to empower the many youth in the region. The toolkit contains general information about what are Millennium Development Goals, why they were initiated and evidence to the progression of these Goals in the Pacific. It also focuses and mainly contains solutions and steps that Youth in the Pacific can take to achieve these Goals in their community. (Youth for a Sustainable Future Pacifika, August 2006)

http://www.peacechild.org/YSF/toolkit.htm

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Angry Young Men, Veiled Young Women

Corner House Briefing 34, by Anne Hendrixson. December 2004. This briefing sets out a short history and critique of youth bulge theory in the context of the attack on New York's World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 and the subsequent growth of US militarism at home and abroad. It aims not only to call attention to how the theory reflects, and is reflected in, racial, gender and age discrimination, but also to suggest how it is being contested.

http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/item.shtml?x=85999#index-08-00-00-00

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Cameroon Association for the Protection and Education of the Child(CAPEC)

Cameroon Association for the protection and Education of the child (CAPEC) is a national non-government Organisation dedicated to the promotion of children's welfare, especially the rural child who suffers so much neglect and abuse. Poor living condition and lack of basic rights, we enhance their human dignity and raise their physical and educational levels in a meaningful, lasting way. OBJECTIVES *Make known the rights of the child and to protect them through education as prescribed by UNICEF and UN Convention on the rights of the child *Assist the needy child irrespective of tribe, origin, sex, religion, in the domain of social welfare *Child labour prevention and elimination and sexual exploitation of the Child *Assist children in confinement like prisons and rehabilitation institutions *Monitor human rights abuse against the child

http://www.capec.net.tc

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Centre for Global Education

The Centre for Global Education (CGE) was established in 1986 by eight development agencies to provide education services that will enhance awareness of international development issues. Its central remit is to challenge dominant stereotypes and commonly held perceptions of developing countries which are prevalent in our society.

http://www.centreforglobaleducation.com/

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Committee for ASEAN Youth

The Committee for ASEAN Youth Cooperation (CAYC) is the coordinating body for all national youth organisations in the South-East Asian region, falling under the geographical area of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). CAYC is a non-govermental, non-profit, voluntary organisation seeking to uphold the ASEAN ideals amongst youth in the region, and to promote Peace, Freedom, Neutrality, Solidarity and Prosperity in the region CAYC was formed on 17th September 1975 in Jakarta, Indonesia, at a meeting between youth leaders and goverment representative of all the ASEAN countries. The formation reflected the strong determation on the part of ASEAN youths to render contributions to the task of ASEAN building. CAYC was envisaged to play a leading role in establishing a firm foundation for common action to promote regional cooperation and understanding, active participation and involvement in the affairs of the countries, sense of belonging to ASEAN society, equality and justice among youth organisations in the region.

http://www.cayc.net

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Debwengidinook Web Documentary Pilot

Debwengidinook is the Ojibwe word for voices. The voices in this web-documentary pilot are those of First nation, Inuit and Metis youth from communities across Canada, who shared their ideas and personal stories through interviews.

http://www.pentafolio.com/aboriginal/

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EarthYouth.NET

Welcome to EarthYouth.NET, the network of young people taking action for a more sustainable planet. This site was also the one-stop portal for youth at the World Summit on Sustainable Development and has been developed collaboratively by several youth organisations. You will be able to work together on projects that make a difference, read stories that inspire, and contribute news, views, and vision here.

http://earthyouth.takingitglobal.org/

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Empowering Young Women to Lead Change [pdf]

Empowering Young Women to Lead Change is an easy to follow resource manual designed to enable young women to prepare and facilitate training on a host of issues that are important to them. A joint publication of the World YWCA and UNFPA, the manual was developed by young women and contains modules on young women's leadership, economic justice, HIV and AIDS, human rights, peace, self esteem and body image, sexual and reproductive health and violence against women. (UNFPA, 2006)

http://www.unfpa.org/upload/lib_pub_file/628_filename_empowering-young-women_eng.pdf

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Engaging communities in youth reproductive health and HIV projects: a guide to participatory assessments (pdf)

This toolkit provides an overview of various participatory assessment processes in the area of YRH and HIV/AIDS. Examples of good practice drawn from the work of Family Health International's youth programmes are presented. These give a clear idea of the standards, safeguards and benefits for involving young people. Readers can find information on assessment preparation, team training activities, conducting an assessment, documenting its findings and verifying these results. The tooklit details each stage of the assessment process, with example activities and suggested points of discussion. (YouthNet, Family Health International, 2006)

http://www.fhi.org/NR/rdonlyres/eocd5killnf6wfdax5ncsln4cdtosrkxnnhojkhvlvexwtxnzvgk6mheepagh6qqyyyknhwo4ekubp/PLAguide.PDF

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Facing History

Facing History and Ourselves is based on the belief that education in a democracy must be what Alexis de Tocqueville called "an apprenticeship in liberty." Facing History helps students find meaning in the past and recognize the need for participation and responsible decision making. For more than 25 years, Facing History has engaged teachers and students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. By studying the historical development of the Holocaust and other examples of collective violence, students make the essential connection between history and the moral choices they confront in their own lives.

http://www.facinghistory.org/campus/reslib.nsf

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Friends of The World Food Program Student Campaign

Contain an information centre, activity ideas, advocacy material, and ways to start up a WFP student group.

http://www.waronhunger.org

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Global Education Centre

The Global Education Centre is a not for profit organisation providing services to the formal and informal Education sector around Global Education. GEC provides training and resources to teachers, teacher trainees, students, youth workers and community groups. GEC is part of the Development Resource Centre along with Dev-Zone which provides information services to development practicioners and universities. Services offered by GEC * Lending Library * Schools programme * Community youth programme

http://www.globaled.org.nz/index.html

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Global Employment Trends for Youth 2004 (pdf)

International Labour Office, Geneva, 2004. Youth unemployment has skyrocketed worldwide over the past decade to some 88 million, according to a study by the International Labour Office (ILO), reaching an all time high with young people aged 15 to 24 now representing nearly half the world's jobless. "Global Employment Trends for Youth 2004", prepared by the ILO's Employment Strategy Department, found that while youth represent 25 per cent of the working age population between the ages of 15 and 64, they made up as much as 47 per cent of the total 186 million people out of work worldwide in 2003. But the problem goes far beyond the large number of young unemployed people: the report says that young people represent some 130 million of the world's 550 million working poor who work but are unable to lift themselves and their families above the equivalent of US$ 1 per day poverty line. These young people struggle to survive, often performing work under unsatisfactory conditions in the informal economy.

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/strat/download/getyen.pdf

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Global Links

Global links is ActionAid's interactive global citizenship site for schools It explores life around the world and encourages users to ask questions, share ideas, vote on issues and take action. It is for seven to 14 year-olds, and their teachers to use in geography, citizenship & PSHE lessons.

http://www.globallinks.org.uk/

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In desperation, Palestinians seek prison in Israel

A growing number of desperate young Palestinian men are deliberately getting themselves arrested at Israeli checkpoints so that they will be sent to Israeli-run prisons, Israeli and Palestinian officials say. The youths, mostly teenage boys, are taking the dangerous measure in part because they say it is easier to study for exams in an Israeli prison than it is at home in the West Bank. Some also want to escape family hardship and deepening poverty. Since January, when the phenomenon was first identified, Israeli army officials say at least 80 young men have either turned up at checkpoints and asked to be arrested or else carried knives and other weapons to ensure they are detained.(Luke Baker, Reuters Alertnet, 11 May 2006)

http://www.israel-palestina.info/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=133

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Island Youth

A website with events, resources and a discussion forum for young people from small islands.

http://www.islandyouth.org

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Making Commitments Matter: A toolkit for young people to evaluate national youth policy

This Toolkit is meant for national youth organizations and/or representatives working with youth. It can be used as a tool to: Assess your country's progress in reaching the WPAY goals; Prioritize your organization's work, based on your findings; Initiate actions at the national level. This Toolkit should be used as a starting point for determining what has done to better the lives of young people since 1995 in your community. In addition to providing methods for evaluating this progress, the Toolkit also contains concrete tools to further your youth work. As such, we hope that you will find it both an informative and useful resource for your organization.

http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unyin/wyr/index.html#toolkit

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Malawi: Attitudes to child labour changing

Despite laws forbidding the use of child labour - often viewed as the norm and an important source of income - enforcement has been anything but strict in Malawi, until recently.

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=75384

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Nigeria: Domestic workers or modern day slaves?

Human traffickers make good business taking poorly educated girls from Nigerian villages to toil as domestic workers in the sprawling urban throb of Lagos. But the girls, some as young as five years old, see little or none of their earnings. Across West Africa, millions of girls - and less often boys - are effectively sold into slavery as domestic workers. Sexual, physical and emotional abuse is widespread. Many are kept under lock and key, and have no contact with anyone outside their employers - no one to turn to for help. (IRIN News, September 12, 2006)

http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=55523&SelectRegion=West_Africa

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Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Youth Outreach Initiative

Often viewed as a highly intellectual and scientific issue, nuclear weapons can be a particularly daunting topic of conversation for anyone. The same can be said for any issue related to war and peace. In particular, young people represent an often neglected and marginalized constituency who tend to be discouraged from learning about and debating these admittedly difficult, yet critical themes. We at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation reject this trend. We acknowledge that youth culture and resistance have been powerful forces for social change for centuries. We respect the energy and creativity of today's youth. The resources listed are intended to help young people, educators and parents alike in exploring the common ground between youth organizing and nuclear weapons issues.

http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/programs/youth-outreach/index.htm

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Our Voice, Our Future: Young People Report on Progress Made on the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS [PDF]

UNFPA, 2005. The Declaration of Commitment (DoC) on HIV/AIDS, adopted by the Member States at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS in June 2001, reflects global recognition of the pandemic as the single greatest threat to the well-being of future generations. It establishes, for the first time ever, time-bound targets to which governments and the United Nations may be held accountable. Most importantly, the Declaration recognizes young people's particular to HIV infection and gives direction to governments on how to effectively address the HIV/AIDS pandemic among them. In publishing this report, UNFPA gives voice to young people from 12 countries around the world. Four years into the implementation of the DoC, young people are reporting on their government's achievements in addressing the AIDS pandemic among them. Based on their own experiences, they have also highlighted shortfalls and challenges in the process, and have made specific recommendations to ensure that the targets set out in the DoC on HIV/AIDS are achieved.

http://www.unfpa.org/publicationsd/detail.cfm?ID=230&filterListType=

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Pachamama Teacher's Guide (PDF)

The Pachamama Teacher's Guide is based on the book Pachamama Our Earth - Our Future and contains lesson plans and activities designed for educators of primary and lower secondary school students (PDF 2.9 MB).

http://www.unep.org/GEO/geo3/pdfs/teacher.pdf

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