Notes from the NTC

Here are urls to collaboratively taken notes: How this works: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=1lOye5S3xi4nofeP2ocXIkCP8FuYvwC0NHuos8MhbZ5k&sort=name&layout=list&num=50 Day three: 19th March 2011: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9VF2B3gqZmZODNiZWVkZWYtNDQyNC00NzdjLWJiYWItMDIzYjE1Nzc2ZGJi&sort=name&layout=list&num=50 Day two: 18th March 2011: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9VF2B3gqZmZOGUyOTQ2YjAtY2RiYi00MWVkLTlkMmUtMzEzYTc3ZjkyOTBl&sort=name&layout=list&num=50 Day one: 17th March 2011 – https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9VF2B3gqZmZNGRhNGYyNTItNWIwZC00OTk2LTgxMTQtZjgwOWUzNTY4MGZk&sort=name&layout=list&num=50

Career & Life Retreat for Professionals (CLRP)

Theme: The Workplace 2011, the trends, the threat and the timing! Every New Year comes with its unique characteristics and vista of peculiarities particularly as we stand on the edge of another decade in 2011. As competitive companies strategize, winning organizations plan and industry players retreat, so also must smart individuals think about what the […]

e-Consultation on Migration: Participate now!!!

Greetings wonderful people! Your participation in the first two weeks of the Youth Consultation on Migration and Development is greatly appreciated! This is the third and final week of the consultation, and will focus on policy coordination and climate change. The effects of migration on development are complex and depend on many different factors, from […]

We, the youth of Nigeria…

The following was circulated about an hour ago by concerned young people in Nigeria. I support the demands being a young person myself desirous of change and development in my fatherland. I have included my name in the signature below and I implore you to add your voice and acts to this campaign. Nigeria is […]

MJ’s THIS IT

Originally written, October 28th and then forgotten until now. Spent a while (and you can add a fortune too :)) seeing Michael Jackson’s This Is It, which premiers from today in cinemas worldwide. I could not help but conclude that Michael was a bunch of talent and deep thinking giving his calculated dance steps, deliberate […]

Message from: Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of United Nations (UN)

The theme of this year’s International Youth Day -Sustainability: Our Challenge. Our Future- is a global call to action for young men and women. Our world faces multiple interconnected crises with severe and far-reaching impacts that fall disproportionately on the young. In 2007, for example, youth comprised 25 per cent of the world’s working age […]

Message from: Mrs. Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, UNFPA Executive Director

It is often said that young people are our future. They are our present, too. It is today, and not tomorrow, that we must invest in young people and include them in solving the great challenges of our times. Today, more than a billion and a half people are between the ages of 10 and […]

Message from: Mr. Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO

In the midst of a series of unprecedented crises affecting the lives of young people all around the world, the theme for this year’s International Youth Day ‘Sustainability: our challenge, our future’ could not be more relevant. Sustainability refers to three facets of life which are all affected by the current turmoil: the environment, society […]

Humanizing Development:

How do you see development? How can you portrait the human face of the development processes? How do you show that development initiatives and programmes improve the lives of people? This Global Photography Campaign, of which CIVICUS is a partner, aims to show examples of people winning the battle against poverty, social exclusion and marginalization. […]