Big Issues Lecture Series! Hotel Santika Yogyakarta (March 4th, 2010)
Free Free Free Public Lecture!
Earth Hour 2010
Turn Out Your Light, Show Support!
In 2009 hundreds of millions of people around the world showed their support by turning off their lights for one hour.
Earth Hour 2010 will continue to be a global call to action to every individual, every business and every community. A call to stand up, to show leadership and be responsible for our future.
Pledge your support and turn off your lights for one hour, Earth Hour, 8.30pm, Saturday 27th March 2010.
It’s Showtime! Show what can be done.
World Urban Youth Assembly International Essay Competition 2010
Essay Theme: “Right to the City: Bridging the Urban Divide”
Essay Guidelines:
http://www.unhabitat.org/content.asp?typeid=19&catid=531&cid=7844
World Youth Conference Mexico 2010
The World Youth Conference 2010 Committee welcomes you to the selection process for NGO representatives who will participate in the NGO Global Meeting. This meeting will be held from August 23rd to 25th, 2010. We are looking for an equitable participation of the NGOs of Member States of the United Nations in a number of people that can make it possible for a discussion and an establishment of agreements. Two NGOs will be selected for each country with one representative of the NGO.
One of the components of the World Youth Conference 2010 is the Social Forum, which has been created as place for the free expression for the youth and it includes the NGO Global Meeting, and a Global Village. The Global Village is intended to be a space to share better practices, concerns, diagnosis and technical and scientific reflections through round tables, workshops, conferences and an informative fair. This is also a space for different expressions of art, culture, technology and entertainment of the youth.
The aim of the NGO Global Meeting is to identify action priorities about youth to be attended in the international agenda of development further than the Millennium Development Goals. This meeting will host more than 420 participants that will generate a recommendation document which will be delivered to the Governments Forum at the beginning of their work on Wednesday, August 25th so that it can be considered in their deliberations. Likewise, the recommendation document will be delivered to the Parliamentarians Forum with the aim of including in their deliberations the demands and necessities identified during the NGO Global Meeting.
Fill up application forms at
GOI Peace International Essay Competition 2010
The United Nations has designated 2001-2010 as the “International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World” and 2005-2014 as the “United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. ” Additionally, 2010 celebrates the International Year of Youth as well as the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Young people are encouraged to participate in these global initiatives and play a leading role in promoting peace and understanding among all cultures.
Theme:
“MY ROLE IN CREATING A PEACEFUL WORLD“
What is your vision of a peaceful and harmonious world? What can you and the young people of the world do to realize that vision?
Guidelines:
1. Essays may be submitted by anyone up to 25 years old (as of June 30, 2010) in one of the following age categories:
a) Children (ages up to 14) b) Youth (ages 15 – 25)
2. Essays must be 800 words or less in English, French, Spanish or German; or 1600 characters or less in Japanese, typed or printed.
3. Essays must have a cover page indicating (1) category (Children or Youth) (2) essay title(3) your name (4) mailing address (5) phone number (6) e-mail address (7) nationality (8) age as of June 30, 2010 (9) sex (10) school name (if applicable) (11) word count.
Teachers and youth directors may submit a collection of essays from their class or group. Please enclose a list of participants’ names and the name and contact information of the submitting teacher or director.
(Entries missing any of the above information will not be considered.)
4. Entries may be submitted by postal mail or e-mail.
(Email entries must be in text or MS Word format, with the cover page and essay sent together as one document.)
5. Essays must be original and unpublished.
6. Essays must be written by one person. Co-authored essays are not accepted.
7. Copyright of the essays entered will be assigned to the organizers.
Deadline: Entries must be received by June 30, 2010.
(www.goipeace. or.jp) and UNESCO web site (www.unesco.org/ youth).
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