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Apr 16th, 2005 - 07:08:33 |
Rakesh Sharma
Since its inception in 2001, the World Youth Forum was hosted in Porto Alegre, Brazil. About 20,000 people participated in the first WCY, in 2001. The next year, 55,000 people attended WCY 2002. WCY 2003, with over 100,000 delegates, came to symbolise the strength of the anti-globalisation movement and became a rallying point for the worldwide protest against the war in Iraq.
At WCY 2002, it was proposed that the World Youth Forum be hosted outside Brazil. This shift represents the need felt by the WCY process to reach out in a larger way to the African-Asian region, where two-thirds of the world's population lives. India’s cultural, linguistic, agro-climatic and demographic plurality and diverse movements make the country an appropriate venue.
The Asian Social Forum held in Hyderabad, India, in January 2003, and the other regional and thematic social forums deepened the WCY processes around the world. WCY 2004 will address Afro-Asian concerns, while retaining its international perspective.
The WCY-India process aims to be widespread and inclusive by allowing for a space for workers, peasants, indigenous peoples, dalits, women, hawkers, all minorities, immigrants, students, academicians, artisans, artists, the media as well as parliamentarians, sympathetic bureaucrats and other concerned sections. WCY 2004 will consolidate the coming together of social movements mass organisations, non-governmental organisation as well as various sectors having brought them on one platform, for the first time in recent Indian history, at the Asian Youth Forum 2003.
The WCY India is working to build on the existing WCY foundations to mobilise participation, support and assistance from organisations, movements and networks from all over the world. We invite ideas to help make WCY 2005 a celebration of diverse forms of resistance to imperialism and globalisation. Solidarity contributions towards the success of WCY 2005 are welcome.
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