Youth

International Youth Conference on Environment - From June 5 to 10, 2010, Luziania, Brasilia, was the epicenter of a meeting of diverse voices, colors, energy, and a lot of joy. Nearly 53 countries from the 5 continents participated in the Children and Youth International Conference “Let’s Take Care of the Planet,” final destination of a process that involved millions of people around the world, (...)

Charting the Future: Youth Take on Climate Change is the community-based project in the US associated with the upcoming Children and Youth International Conference on the Environment: Let’s Take Care of the Planet . On April 9-11, 2010, the Peer Learning Exchange was held on the campus of Regis University in Denver, Colorado. The Exchange was hosted by the FrontRange office of Earth Force, (...)

A then 12-year-old Canadian girl, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, addressed a UN conference in Brazil and made a strong statement in 1992, 18 years ago. She does not pronounce the word "responsibility," but that is exactly what she is referring to: the responsibility of those who have the power to decide. Some politicians today seem to be just barely discovering environmental threats and their own (...)

Abstract The idea is to draw up a Charter of Responsibilities of Surfers for Sustainable Societies based on the actions, proposals, and reflections of the several networked surfers’ communities spread along the Brazilian coast. The network, the Alliance of Surfers, proposes to organize partnerships to follow up and articulate the surfer community’s thinking and actions (through the media, the (...)

Brief presentation This methodological tool for debates can be very useful to help groups identifying local issues and define the values that are behind political interests that can impact on specific social groups and communities, with social and environmental consequences. It can help a group to find out who are responsible for creating such problems and who are the responsible for (...)

Last July 14, 2009, the Philippines launched the local campaign for the “Let’s Take Care of the Planet” International Conference to be held in Brazil on 2010. The Philippine National Organizing Committee of the said international conference, which includes the Charter of Human Responsibilities, Department of Education (DepEd), Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), UNESCO (...)

An online game (requires flash plugin) where "you are president of the European Nations. You must tackle climate change and stay popular enough with the voters to remain in office". The educational goal is "to give an understanding of some of the causes of climate change, particularly those related to carbon dioxide emissions, to give players an awareness of some of the policy options (...)

It is impossible to be dispassionate while writing about Brazil. I wouldn’t be able to do it even if I were hung by my feet from a plank over a school of menacing sharks and told that my life depended on it. Such is the intensity of feeling and the warmth of memories that the name evokes. So naturally, “A formal report on my trip to Brazil” sounds like an oxymoron! The beginnings of this saga (...)

Horlicks Wizkids one of India’s largest literary and cultural events for schools packed with action, excitement and entertainment. Horlicks WIZKIDS 2007 by Activity was bigger than ever before, touching 27 cities across India, more than 3,000,000 students from 4500 schools. The event featured 40 different competitions for students from 1st to 12th Std. Within the purview of the Horlicks (...)

; The Y Acts! Youth Festival 2008! was successfully held from May 7-11, 2008 at the mountain city of La Trinidad, Benguet Province, which is nestled in the Cordillera Mountain Range in Northern Philippines. It was attended by 150 young participants from different points of the Philippines, from Luzon to Mindanao, mostly from underprivileged sectors of the youth population. The number of (...)

Youth voicing their strong opinion for Climate Change and Sustainable Development at G8 Summit in Japan The G8 (Group of Eight) Summit is being held in Hokkaido, Japan in July 2008. Japan Youth G8 (JYG8) invited more than 100 youth activists and organizations around the world to participate in an international youth forum between 27th June - 30t June 2008 where they discussed the world’s (...)

The International Conference on Environmental Education held at Ahmedabad, India in November 2007 brought together individuals and representatives from various youth and environment related networks, and has effectively demonstrated the efficacy of education as a tool. Youth participants have felt the need to sustain this effort to integrate education into sustainable development. (...)

Citizen Responsibility Campaign in the city of São Paulo With its 12 million inhabitants and enormous social problems, São Paulo is South America’s biggest city. The “R” actions in São Paulo organized by the Movimento Nossa São Paulo Outra Cidade (the Our São Paulo: A Different City movement), aim to set an example for other Brazilian cities. The actions were inspired by the citizen participation (...)

The Indian Charter facilitation team, in association with Activity, an edutainment company, has successfully facilitated the drafting of Indian Children’s Charter of Social and Environmental Responsibilities for the second year. Horlicks Wizkids – 2007, a personality competition that recognizes the outstanding students, who are all-rounders and have a good balance of character & (...)

Anugraha John, representing Global Citizens for Sustainable Development and World Youth Water Alliance in partnership with Nina Gregg (Charter of Human Responsibilities- USA), has planned a series of events to engage US youth in peer dialogue on the notion of "Youth Responsibilities in the United States." Activities ranging from presentations, film screenings, discussions, and group (...)

The fourth International Conference on Environmental Education organized by UNESCO, UNEP and other partners in collaboration with Centre for Environment Education, Ahmedabad, India was held in Ahmedabad between November 24 and 28, 2007. There were around 30 working group sessions varying from Non Formal Spaces of Learning, Education towards sustainability concerns of Natural Resources in (...)

Cronograma 2007 - Establishment of Agreements for International Cooperation between Brazil, the participating countries and the partners Formation, in each country, of a Coordination Group composed by three instances, or a tripod : Government (Ministries of Education, the Environment and others, as Culture, Science and Technology…), University and Civil Society (NGOs and Youth Movements). (...)

What is the Children’s Conference on the Environment? It is an educational campaign that brings about the political dimension of the environment to schools and other instances children and youth organizations. It mobilizes and engages children in science research and their communities in the debate about contemporary challenges on social and environmental issues. The Conference is a process (...)

The conference titled " Responsibility everywhere and in all" was held on September 20 to 25, 2007 in Batoumi, Georgia, Caucasus. It was organized by the regional Committee of the Charter of Human Responsibilities and the young scouts of Georgia. During the conference, the Charter of Human Responsibilities was presented by Tsisso Chipashvili, and Tasia Zakariadze spoke largely about (...)

Y Acts! Youth Festival 2008! has been launched by the Philippine Facilitation Team of the Charter of Human Responsibilities last June 26, 2007 at the College of Social Work and Community Development of the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines. Theme of this year’s festival is “Celebrating Responsibilities Initiated by the Filipino Youth!” [application form at the (...)

As you may have read in the article titled A Philippines - India Cultural Exchange for the Wizkids Winners!, the four young winners of the Wizkids final contest enjoyed a very interesting and pleasant trip to the Philippines. Among the visits and experiences, they have selected the ones that most moved them to share their feelings. Aeta Community Aeta is a simple indigenous village in (...)

To help the youth taking over the Charter principles and disseminating it around them through music.

This VIDEO presents the overview of a young man’s life, a student who hates Mondays, the day when university starts again after festive weekends with the friends. Monday February 14th, the former Lebanese Prime minister Rafiq Hariri is murdered in Beirut. The Lebanese rebel after his murder against the Syrian regime that controls Lebanon with tens of thousands of Syrian soldiers on the (...)

Presentation by Fleur de Lys C. Cupino, during the “Learning for Life: Creating Endless Possibilities in Secondary Education” SEAMEO INNOTECH International Conference, November 16, 2006. Education affordable to those who have less Education for the Economically Disadvantaged can be a Sustainable Enterprise Parent Enterprise Program Quality Education School-Family Partnership (...)

We are the Filipino young people who attended the Youth Festival held December 1-3, 2006 in Rizal, Philippines. We came up with this Youth Covenant after analyzing our situation, particularly in relation to our education, environment, peace and rights, and identity. From this discussions, we formulated our vision of Philippine society and came up with recommendations on what the young (...)

The Philippine Team facilitating the Charter of Human Responsibilities is organizing a Youth Festival on December 1-3, 2006 in a camping site in Taytay, Rizal, in the outskirts of Manila, Philippines. A total of 100 participants aged 15-20 from all around the Philippines shall join the event. The large majority of participants shall come from underprivileged sectors like indigenous peoples, (...)

Short synopsis of the programme The Regional team for the Charter in India had a lot of discussions and interactions since May 2006 with an “edutainment” company, The Activity, based in Bangalore, initiating a programme incorporating the Charter of Human Responsibilities in its Horlicks Wizkids 2006 event. The Activity as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agreed to promote and (...)

1. Introduction Last May 7-9, 2006, the multisectoral confederation SANLAKAS held a YOUTH CAMP FOR CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT held in Tanza, Cavite. This was participated in by 43 youth leaders from different organizations in Metropolitan Manila. The camp activities included Music, Art, Drama, and Communication Workshops, and a discussion of the National Political and Economic Situation and the (...)

The video production was done in conjunction with the Teacher Training (see article ’Ethics and Responsibilities in the Teaching Profession’). It is entitled Alay sa Mundo, meaning ’Offering to the Earth’, and was produced by the Regional Charter Team with the Center for Positive Futures. This video was presented to 40 teachers and a discussion on the Charter followed rooted in their vision and (...)

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"Yound people are not so much concerned with their destiny but rather with hope." A Brazilian teacher Just imagine… Involving 12.000 schools and the communities around them, thus mobilizing within one year nearly 4 million people to reflect on fundamental questions related to the future of humanity and the survival of the planet, organizing conferences in several of the 27 states of the (...)

Schedule from July to November 2005 July 2, 9 am organizational meeting (list review, letter-invitation, budget) July 9, 5 am to 5 pm meeting with young people and discussion of Charter curriculum planning meeting and training of tutors July 10, 3-5 pm meeting with the parents, discussion of Charter July 16, 9-11 am group dynamics, getting-to-know each other Leaf-printing with (...)

Children, Youth, and a teacher express what they have been learning during the program.

This project was conducted by high school students of the Center for Positive Futures (CPF) as part of their Social Studies class. The activity centered on partnering with a class in a public elementary school around the general notion of environmental responsibility, involving four classes of students in CPF and four elementary school classes in four different public elementary schools. Two (...)

The Library of Human Responsibilities was set up as a community library within the school library of the Center for Positive Futures in Barangay Banaba, San Mateo, Rizal. Featuring in the library are books, documentaries and films which promote environmental and social responsibility. The Library shall sponsor a series of activities to encourage developing responsibilities of community (...)