(MOVED) Every Woman is Worthy of Her Rights
I was born in Iraqi Kurdistan in a time of internal conflict and war and I moved to Sweden as a political refugee in 1997.
by Taffan Ako
Goal 4. Quality education
Articles
(MOVED) Let’s Get Digital
In your life, if you’re lucky enough, you are born during a moment in time when the world is ready for the change you’re bringing. So, all that’s left for you to do is your work. I am glad that the European Development Days and Young Leaders programme was one such platform ready for us […]
by Shwetal Shah
(MOVED) Footsteps: Our Journey
“The Journey of a Thousand Miles must begin with a single step” – Lao Tzu I came across this quote at the United Nations ESCAP building in Bangkok, when I was representing Bangladesh as a youth ambassador for a high-level climate change conference in 2012. The writing was boldly engraved on a wall on the second […]
by Shah Rafayat Chowdhury
(MOVED) Unapologetic About Championing Our Rights
I can connect the dots of my advocacy career backwards to 13 years ago, when I was selected to join the Nigerian Children’s Parliament. As a Child Parliamentarian, I spent 4 of my impressionable teenage years participating in high-level consultations with policy makers and creating awareness about the provisions of the Child Rights Law across […]
by Olaoluwa Abagun
(Moved) Contraceptive Access – My Nigerian Experience
As a young boy growing up in Benin City, Nigeria. I had a best friend who was also my classmate and sat next to me at secondary school. Her name was Martha, Martha was the brightest in our class she exceled at Science subjects mainly biology, physics and chemistry. She always shared her dream of […]
by Offor Hope Jeremiah
(MOVED) An End To FGM
I have been an activist working towards ending Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) going on six years now as my community, Kuria, has one of the highest FGM prevalence rates worldwide. Eighty Percent. Eighty percent of women and girls in my community will undergo female circumcision. Eight in ten women and girls, many of whom undergo […]
by Natalie Tingo
(MOVED) LIFT UP HER VOICE Challenge
What it means to be a woman in a world’s largest refugee settlement: “She was escaping fierce fighting in her home town of Bor Medina in South Sudan when Amer was intercepted and gang raped by 6 men who killed the 2 other women who tried to resist. She was released with a ruptured uterus. After walking […]
by Esther Nakajjigo
(MOVED) Equal rights for all.
It is fundamental to accept that we are all different and that even though we may be different, each of us has the same potential to bring something irreplaceable to society; we have the capability to improve our environment and the one of the people who surround us.
by Ernesto Hernandez Otero
(Moved) Breaking the Cycle of Poverty: Sustainable Skills Development and Financial Diversification
Upper East is one of the regions in Ghana that is engulfed with poverty, especially among women. The population of the region is over one million with 72% of this rural people engaged predominantly in peasant farming with climate change threatening this lifestyle due to changing rainfall patterns. The lives and livelihood of 1 million […]
by Dorcas Apoore
(MOVED) Education – The Flame of Hope in Emergencies
A resilient seven years into the Syrian crisis, Syrians have been calling for more sustainable solutions to support their livelihoods and generate income. Affected people have exhausted their resources and still remain with little or no opportunity to re-build their livelihoods. Host communities are also overstretched, putting significant stress on basic services as a result […]
by Bushra Dabbagh
(MOVED) Tamount Green School: Education to sustainability
The High Atlas Mountains in Morocco as other mountain regions throughout the world are the source of major economic, environmental resources and ecosystem services. Mountains represent one-fifth of the world’s land and are home to 570 million people. On the 27th October 2017, I organized the Climathon High Atlas event in its first edition and first […]
by Rachid Ennassiri
(MOVED) “How do we end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) within a generation?”
It is deeply saddening, worrying but even more so infuriating that article headlines such as “One Female Genital Mutilation case reported every hour in the UK” or “Girls in Kenya are hiding in school over Christmas for fear of female genital mutilation at home” are still written based on girls’ current reality somewhere in this […]
by Elsa Zekeng
Media
(MOVED) 15 inspiring Young Leaders to debate inequalities at the European Development Days 2019
The European Commission has just announced the names of the fifteen inspiring young people from around the world who will enrich the debates at the 2019 European Development Days (EDD). These Young Leaders, aged between 21 and 26, have been chosen from among 404 applicants from 99 countries for their exceptional skills, expertise and active […]
by Reuben James Barrete
(MOVED) Save the Children at EDD 2017: Spotlighting issues
Young Leaders and other EDD17 participants talk to Save the Children EU to share their ideas on what they believe are the most pressing issues for children across the world.
by Young Leaders
(MOVED) What should the EU do for children?
Young Leaders and other EDD17 participants talk to Save the Children EU to share their ideas on what the EU must do for children across the world.
by Young Leaders
(MOVED) Young Leaders @ #SDGStudio #EDD17: HeForShe
HeForShe, a global movement that has revolutionised our approach towards the collective goal of gender equality is on its way to more than 1.4 million commitments from across the world. EDD Young Leader, Vandinika Shukla, India sits with Yannick Glemarec, Deputy Executive Director, UN Women in a cross-generational dialogue to understand the role of men […]
by Vandinika Shukla
(MOVED) Young Leaders @ #SDGStudio #EDD17 with Eduardo Matoko
EDD Young Leader 2016, Vandinika Shukla, India in a cross-generational dialogue with Eduardo Matoko, Assistant Director-General, Africa
Department, UNESCO.
by Vandinika Shukla
(MOVED) Young Leaders @ #SDGStudio #EDD17 with Amina Mohammed
Suman Kumar, EDD Young Leader, Nepal interviews Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations on the role of youth in achieving the SDGs.
(MOVED) How Three Young People are Driving Change Around the World
Young people are not just leaders of the future – they are leaders of today. Vandinika Shukla discusses her involvement with the G(irls)20, a precursor to the G-20 in which girls set the agenda for policy-makers.
by Vandinika Shukla
(MOVED)EDD 2016 Young Leaders Programme
by European Commission
(MOVED)EDD16, Vandinika Shukla – Education in emergencies
by Vandinika Shukla