Organizations

BALI, Indonesia, 12 December 2007 — On the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Change Conference now under way in Bali, Indonesia, UNICEF has held a series of events to highlight the effects of global warming on children and to ensure that young people are involved in debate on this issue.

To that end, UNICEF supported the launch of a Global Youth Climate Movement by a coalition of more than 30 youth organizations.

The climate change meeting has attracted participants from more than 180 countries — including environmental experts, activists and world leaders — in an effort to reach agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and slowing down global warming.

To read the full story, visit: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/indonesia_42187.html

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In 2009 Starbucks awarded 50 Shared Planet Youth Action Grants totaling $842,000 to US non-profit organization to help support young people identify and address local needs. Starbucks is proud to support the work of all of these organizations including The Food Project in Boston, Massachusetts. The Food Project supports youth in producing healthy food for residents of the city and suburbs, provides youth leadership opportunities, and supports others to create change in their own communities.

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KYC’s 1st Kurdish Festival
Atlanta GA January 15-17, 2010
3 Days of Nonstop learning and fun

Kurdish Festival is a celebration of Kurdish Heritage in the United States. The festival will stretch a spam of three days. During which, Kurds and non-Kurds, from a variety of background and across U.S. will gather in Atlanta, Georgia. The festival will take place during the weekend of Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on January 15, 16, and 17, 2010.

Kurdish Festival will be a gathering to celebrate a heritage that has taken over 8000 years in making. During which many aspects of Kurdish life will be brought to light; from Kurdish film, literature, music, history, dance, and current events. The Festival will also include self-building workshops in leadership, fundraising and conflict management.

For the first time, Kurdish festival will bring together education and entertainment and set a new standard. The festival will entertain with three evenings of music, dance and party; featuring popular Kurdish singers and musicians. In addition, it will conduct two full days of workshops and trainings.

In a segment named Kurds Got Talent, Kurdish Festival will host the first and the largest talent shows across US. In which a variety of talents will compete. The competition is open to all. Many Kurdish singers will be invited to perform live and compete for the title of first Kurdish Singer of 2010 in US. Kurds Got Talent will be a display of many different aspects of Kurdish culture from its beautiful traditional clothes to variety of poetry and modern songs, acting, and comedy. The top three talents will be awarded accordingly. Please help us identify potential talents in your community by contacting KYC at our website.

The educational component of the festival will include key figures in modern Kurdish, politics, music, history and literature. Attendee will be able to hear from those that have influenced lives of Kurds either directly or indirectly. A different aspect of the festival will expand to include small sized workshops that will help the youth and attendees to better function, organize and plan back in their own local organizations. Self building workshops will be about fundraising, conflict management and leadership. They will be followed by discussion groups on many aspect of Kurdish life such as history, current event, and literature.

In three days of nonstop learning and fun, Kurdish Festival will start a tradition of celebration of Kurdish Heritage in the United States. We invite you to join us on this important event. We will be honored with your support and present.

Kurdish festival is being organized by the members and friends of Kurdish Youth Club (KYC). A 501(c)3 non-profit and independent Kurdish youth organization dedicated to promoting Kurdish Culture and advocating for the youth.

For more information please visit: www.KurdishYouthClub.com

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The Youth protest action in front of the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy. Video reportage by Mehman Huseynov. Azərbaycan Dövlət Neft Akademiyasının (ADNA) qarşında gənclərin keçirdikləri etiraz aksiyası.Video reportage by Mehman Huseynov. The youth wanted to hold a remembrance for victims of terror committed in ASOA on 30 April, 2009. The police and the plain clothed people interfered in youth approaching the building of ASOA. During this time 28 May subway station was completely surrounded by police. Police removed citizens from the area by force. Although youths came from different directions unexpectedly several times and voiced slogan No to terror, the police removed them from the area by force. The police and plain clothed people detained youth activists, members of youth organizations and human rights defenders participating in the action. They were taken onto the buses that were brought beforehand, and then to the Nasimi District Police Office and Police Department #22. A group of youth who were singing the anthem of Azerbaijan Republic and moving in the direction of Samad Vurgun garden faced the same fate.On 30 April, 2009, at around 9:30 a.m., Georgian Citizen Farda Gadirov entered education building #2 of the State Oil Academy of Azerbaijan and shot everyone he met on the first floor to the sixth by Makarov pistol. As a result, 12 people died and 13 people received various injuries. Farda Gadirov`s corpse was found during the incident. It was said that he committed suicide.

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This video features three Neighborhood Connections grantees who have worked to improve the quality of life in the City of Cleveland. The three grantees that are featured are: KNOWLEDGE Youth Organization (youth empowerment program) in the Union-Miles neighborhood; Joyful Noise Neighborhood Music School (arts education) in the Cudell neighborhood; and the East 128th Street Block Club Association (community building and beautification) from the Buckeye neighborhood. Neighborhood Connections is the small grants program of The Cleveland Foundation. Grassroots neighborhood groups located in Cleveland are eligible to apply for funding from between $500 and $5,000. Neighborhood Connections was created to enable community groups to improve the quality of life in Cleveland neighborhoods. The goals of the program are to stimulate the development of new projects designed by grassroots groups to address their most pressing concerns; encourage new and stronger relationships between grassroots organization and more established community-based organizations; and to develop leadership and organizational capacity. Visit www.neighborhoodgrants.org or call 216.861.3810 for more information.

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Youth rights organizations are working to create employment opportunities for Americas youth as they have been hit hard by the recession. Youth unemployment is at its highest point since World War II and various groups of young people are stepping in on behalf of their peers.

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Should the fans be allowed to cripple the efforts of the coach who has worked all season to build a team that supports each other?

The answer, I think, is this: Should they have to? No. Should the parents and spectators be able to regulate themselve in a proper manner? Yes. Should the leagues start regulating? Yes, if they have to. I hate the idea of the leagues getting that envolved, but part of their duty is to the child. If the parents and/or spectators are creating a hostile or bad environment for the children, then the leagues have to put their foot down. I hate to pawn it off on them, but there may be no other choice.
When they sign up, the parents should be given a set of guidelines that they have to recognize and sign, then if they break those, the leagues will have the option to ask them to leave the games. The problem that I forsee with this is that if the parent is out of line and is asked to leave, the team may suffer and the child may suffer because the parent may take it out on them.

Overall, it is a fine line and people need to learn how to behave themselves in a civil and fun manner.

The Urban Youth Initiative (UYI) seeks to equip, empower, and support dedicated youth ministers and the local church/Christian community to effectively reach unchurched urban young people with the hope and love of Jesus Christ, and nurture their development into purposeful
adulthood.

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The Somali Youth Development Resource Centre (SYDRC) organised and facilitated a. London Somali Youth Forum, held at City Hall on Thursday 22 January , Somali youth organizations

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Korean Central Television (조선중앙방송)
Brilliant tradition of Korean youth movement

The league, which was founded by President Kim Il Sung during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to liberate Korea from the military occupation of Japan (1905-1945), was not merely a youth organization. As the one with the mission to pioneer the way ahead of the Korean revolution, it played the role of a vanguard in leading the Korean revolution as a whole until the party organization came into existence while ensuring the unified guidance to broad sections of anti-Japanese mass organizations.

The founding of the Young Communist League was a historic event that heralded the birth of a genuine revolutionary youth organization in Korea. It was of a great significance in the development of the Korean revolution and youth movement. After its founding, the league was engrossed in strengthening and expanding itself, guiding its affiliated organizations and enlightening young people and students and masses and revolutionizing rural communities.

Since the President founded the YCLK, the Korean revolution has steadily advanced along the road of development for the last 80 years supported by a powerful force consisting of young people firmly united.

Young fighters brought up by the league formed the backbone of the Anti-Japanese Peoples Guerilla Army (predecessor of the Korean Peoples Army) which was founded on April 25, 1932. Young revolutionaries played the role of the vanguard and shock brigade in carrying out Kim Il Sungs intentions and lines throughout the anti-Japanese armed struggle. They fully displayed all their matchless courage, heroism and the spirit of self-sacrifice in every battle against the Japanese imperialists, thus making a great contribution to the achievement of the historic cause of national liberation.

After liberation, the youth movement of Korea developed onto a new stage. Busy as he was guiding the building of a new society, Kim Il Sung paid deep attention to the strengthening and development of the youth movement. He put forth the line to unite all the youth who loved the country under the banner of democracy, and founded the Democratic Youth League on January 17, 1946, as the one and only mass organization of the youth.

Under the banner of the DYL, the Korean youth devoted all their might and wisdom to the building of a new society, the Fatherland Liberation War (1950-1953 Korean War against the armed invasion by the United States) and the postwar rehabilitation and construction to accomplish great achievements that will shine forever in the history of the country.

As required by the new reality in which the socialist revolution emerged victorious and the socialist construction was under way in earnest, President Kim Il Sung developed the DYL into the Socialist Working Youth League of Korea in May 1964. Being conscious of his deep trust and expectation, the Korean youth creditably played the role of the vanguard and shock brigade in the socialist construction as well.

By virtue of Kim Jong Ils politics of attaching importance to and loving the youth, the Korean youth have been brought up as the vanguard in defending the socialist system, the models of virtue who sacrifice their youth and life without hesitation for their society, community and comrades, and the heroes of creation and construction who take charge of and creditably complete the construction of difficult and important objects.

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