Movilizacion Nacional el día 9 de julio, para frenar la destrucción del medio ambiente, por el derecho a una mejor calidad de vida,por el derecho a agua de toda la poblacion, para frenar el desempleo local provocado por megaproyectos. Se realizará en mas de 10 ciudades almismo tiempo alas 01:00 pm . Los lemas de la marcha son: "la vida agua vale mas que el dinero", "No mas contaminacion".

Civil Society will not participate in the M+5 summit for the Security reasons.
What sort of thinking this fact stimulates? Definitely it appears as though agendas of the Governments and Civil Society organizations are so drastically different that It'll be safer for both to keep them separated.
Even more ironically while officially UN insists on coherent partnership of Governments and Civil Society withing the MDG framework, United Nations in reality prefer to indulge the out dated "ignore mode" that most of the governments refused quite a while ago.
If UN is not there to ensure dialogue between the Third Sector and the Governments, what other international entity will?

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En el marco de la sala del Consejo Economico y Social de Naciones Unidas, el pasado 23 de junio
se llevo a cabo la exposicion Juventud y ODM Recursos y Movilizacion.

Con un publico de aproximadamente 50 jovenes, y la importante presencia del Embajador de Noruega ante la ONU , Benjamin Quinto, de Global Youth Action Network, Fabrizio Scrollini de Takingitglobal.org, Emily Freeburg de la Federacion Mundial , Woody Tjanhjono de Pax Romana y Albert Chow, de The Millenium Project.

Benjamin Quinto expuso la situacion de la juventud en el mundo de hoy, asi como sobre la necesidad de la participacion activa de los jovenes. Tambien senalo el importante rol de la sociedad civil en la lucha por mas participacion juvenil. Benjamin Quinto dirige la Red de Accion Mundial Juvenil (Global Youth Action Network) cuya mision es promover la participación de los jóvenes en la toma de decisiones a nivel mundial, fomentando así el diálogo inter-generacional; apoyar la cooperación entre diversas organizaciones juveniles; proveer los recursos y el reconocimiento necesario para impulsar el activismo juvenil en el mundo.

Fabrizio Scrollini reseno sobre las actividades que Takingitglobal *TIG* esta haciendo en la campana. En particular reseno la pagina web mdg.takingitglobal.org, asi como los nuevos materiales de la campana que estan disponibles. Fabrizio Scrollini es el Editor Juvenil Latinoamericano de la Campana del Milenio, y junto a el trabajan escritores de Uruguay, Argentina, Peru, Chile y Colombia.
Junto a el otros 7 editores alrededor del mundo, cumplen la funcion de escribir acerca de iniciativas en torno a la campana del milenio.


Emily Freeburg de la Federacion Mundial Luterana, hizo un detallado enfoque de como la juventud ya esta contribuyendo con las ODM. En particular expuso sobre el informe Juventud y ODMs *Youth and MDGs* el cual ha sido de mucha ayuda para justificar el rol de la juventud en la campana.

Budi Tjahjono de Pax Romana expuso sobre la realidad del empleo juvenil en nuestros tiempos y la necesidad de invertir en el.

Finalmente Albert Chaw hizo un enfoque acerca de como el proyecto del milenio, un grupo independiente dirigido por el Prof. Sachs, y designado por el Secretario General, destinado a crear estrategias y a investigar sobre los ODM, viene trabajando en torno a temas de juventud.


Fue una gran jornada. Los jovenes estuvimos representados, y lo mas importante es que hay mas jovenes que se siguen sumando a la posiblidad de cambiar el mundo.

The General Assembly hearings with the Civil society, private sector and NGo s has been an important step into the participation of civil society into the UN system. Since civil society will not participate on M+5 Summit for security reasons,

However not all the countries took their responsibility seriously. Only the ambassador of Egypt, Norway and Sweden were almost always present and interacting with the civil society.

The hearings were divided into clusters according to the Secretary General last report, " In Larger freedom" . My cluster was freedom from fear. Of 38 speakers two of us were highly focused on youth.

I basically exposed about the need of youth participation as a long term strategy to end conflict. Also the need of youth to participate in peacebuilding process. The president of GA received our proposal and also the future president of General Assembly and the actual Swedish ambassador.

I was great! Even people that was not on youth advocay mentioned our cause, like Janaina (from Brasil). The rapporteur noticed it, and I hope that at least we can manage to include youth in the next declaration.

There is a long way to go. Youth advocacy needs much more lobby and pressure, but our main argument is the same: sustainability of everything comes of investing in youth.

If you want to see the hearings http://www.un.org/webcast/ga.html

"Forget Youth" - UN General Assembly Hearings outcome!
"!Forget Youth!" UN General Assmbly Hearings
It was definitely fun to participate in the well orchestred UN General Assembly "Informal" Interactive Hearings with NGOs. The event is over and now I think It's time to acknowledge that it deliberately failed to give youth "a chance". We are still treated as objects rather than agents of reform.

What is even worse is that UN has completely ignored problems of the region that I represent - Eastern Europe the talk is "Africa .. Africa, Africa" all the time.

Africa is indeed the continent where UN negligence is the most obvious, but! isn't it due to the UN's manner to forget certain issues and over-concentrate on others that has brough Africa to its present measerable condition?

I am pretty much sure that UN won't be able to help out Africa while forgetting about South America, Asia and Eastern Europe.

What's good about the Hearings is that thanks to the event I have come to embrace once and for all that relevant resources will never be given to the youth of the world - it's only through our campaigning and amok-like fighting that we'll be able to change the world for the better. UN is not a reliable partner in this undertaking.

We are not taken into consideration because UN just like the governments of the world is not ready to acknowledge that Youth Participation is a fact, we are conscious of the present day condition of the World far better than the "adult generation" claims to be. We are indeed people of new breed - a responsible, conscious, global generation. Dear Friends! it is time Governments and International bodies started to learn from us and not vice versa. I am sure that we will teach them a lesson!

Time to be frank with ourselves - the only youth voice the governments are willing to hear is the voice of violence. Marginalized.. - that is not what we really are! but for the world powers it is the most convenient mode of thinking about youth.

THis ignorant approach allows governments to escape the necessity to acknowledge their own canibalistic (because of its consequences) ignorance and inadequacy.