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From: Saba Sebhatu (ssebhatu1@gmail.com)
Date: Thu May 20 2010 - 13:02:54 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.