From: Saba Sebhatu (ssebhatu1@gmail.com)
Date: Thu May 20 2010 - 12:52:39 EDT
PRESS ADVISORY
Contact: Rahel Weldeab
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
7 PM KSA, MAY 17, 2010
Phone: +291-1-122118 or 120488
Email: nueyspub2001@yahoo.com
2010 International Youth Forum to be held in Asmara, Eritrea
NUEYS Eritrea – Announces 2010 International Youth Forum
To be held July 21 – 23, 2010 in Asmara, Eritrea.
Visit the new blog and find up to date information
http://nueyseritrea.wordpress.com
NUEYS recognizes that 2010 is the beginning of the International Year
of the Youth!
Following the Eri-Youth Festival, NUEYS will be conducting an
international youth forum
with the goal of bringing together international representatives of
youth and student
organizations to discuss creating partnership through the themes of
inclusive dialogue
and exchange for mutual understanding, peacebuilding, sustainable
development, active
citizenship and public interest diplomacy.
Under the theme Mutual Understanding for Peace, Security and Sustainable
Development, this forum will bring together youth activists from all
over the world to
discuss the following topics: Youth participation in the achievement
of the Millennium
Development Goals (MDG), MDGs +10 , WPAY +15 , HIV/AIDS, Education.
Promoting dialogue for mutual understanding and tolerance,
peacebuilding for sustainable
development, youth partnership for youth development and empowerment,
the prevailing
situation in the Horn of Africa, youth political participation, active
youth citizenship for
development and social justice, public interest diplomacy, youth and media, and
techniques for advocacy and lobbying for peace and sustainable development.
This international youth forum is in continuation of a Regional Youth
Forum conducted in
July 2008. The regional youth forum saw the establishment of the Horn
of Africa Youth
Initiative (HAYI) Network.
Interested youth organizers and individuals can upload and complete an
application for
the forum at http://nueyseritrea.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/nueys-iyfapp.pdf
National Union of Eritrean Youth & Students (Eritrea) now has 7
regional branches and over 50 sub branches in Eritrea. NUEYS also extends to
Eritreans in the Diaspora with over 20 international chapters, in over 15
countries around the world. NUEYS Eritrea mission is to cultivate and
produce capable youth by promoting and strengthening Eritrean youth in all
aspects of national, regional, and international development processes.
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