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The Global Humanitarian Forum's Youth Forum

 

Global humanitarian challenges concern young people as much as they concern the older generation. Nowadays, those challenges can no longer be solved separately from each other, be it across nations, across religions or across generations.

It is crucial that the younger generation has access to a platform where they can express their views on humanitarian issues, present their ideas to overcome those challenges and exchange their thoughts with peers and key stakeholders of the older generation.

As young people, we need to come together to tackle humanitarian challenges!
We need innovative and action-oriented strategies to overcome those challenges!
We need to discuss with world decision makers and act together, now!

 

Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Leaders should lead... or follow?
COP15 in Copenhagen closed on Saturday 19th December and since then a lot has been written and said to convey the sense of frustration that the engaged civil society as well the vast majority of the world's nations feel. That the final result would not be ideal was clear at the end of the first week, but that it could be that deceiving and trash the moderate progress made in the previous days on issues such as forestry, technological transfer and other – well that was a (very bad) surprise! Here...
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Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Copenhague, l'espoir faiblit
Hopenhaguen a déjà bien triste mine ce soir et pourtant le sommet est encore loin d'être terminé. Les chefs d'état devaient arriver en grande pompe et parapher des documents finalisés. Pourtant le chantier est encore loin d'être terminé. La journée écoulée a été des plus houleuses. La séance plénière du COP sensée démarrer à 10h est reportée à 13h sans qu'aucune annonce claire n'ait été faite. Vers 11h30 la réunion suivante du COP/MOP démarre. Une réunion expédiée en toute vitesse par la présid...
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