|
|
|
 About |
 |
Title: NGO Committee on Youth
Location:
Global
Categories: Good Governance
Children’s Rights
Status:
Completed
Timeline:
Ongoing
Description:
The NGO Committee on Youth at the United Nations in New York works to connect youth NGOs, youth at the UN and NGOs who work with young people to colloborate in their advocacy for youth at the UN.
to recieve our updates, send an email to:
ngo_youthCom-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Objectives:
To get youth voices heard at the UN and in the NGO community, to teach more young people about the UN, to assist youth caucuses at commissions at the UN, to learn to be better advocates, to serves as a focal point for UN offices regarding youth concerns in New York, and to educate the NY-NGO community about world issues facing young people.
Brief history: The Committee is part of CONGO, an NGO accredited to ECOSOC. Their website is ngocongo.org. The youth committee here in New York is the only youth committee to survive the Cold War and is presently undergoing a period of growth and transition. The committee was alerted to some of its possible projects: writing reports to the UN, hosting luncheons to meet with delegates, bringing speakers, positive statements about the UN.
As a single voice, an NGO cannot easily make an impact; by coming together as a caucus, we will have much more influence and support. We try to involve NGOs that do
not have ECOSOC or DPI status at the UN, to greater expand the voice of
young people at the international level of politics.
Last year, the committee worked on projects relating to the Commission on Sustainable
Development and an educational meeting on youth and peace-building. It also participated in the creation of the Youth Advisory Council to CONGO, which trys to increase the presence of youth at the UN. See http://projects.takingitglobal.org/congoyac
For more information about international youth networks and youth policy at the UN, see the "Voice" section of this website.
To see our project on youth, AIDS and gender, go to: http://projects.takingitglobal.org/GenderAIDS
Tags:
You must be logged in to add tags.
|
 |
 |
 |
|
Menu
