Over the last month, the British Council’s pan-European climate project, Challenge Europe, has launched in 15 countries. A team of over 220 dynamic 18 to 35 year old Climate Advocates from all walks of life has now been assembled to work together to cut Europe’s carbon craving. continue reading »
MEXICO CITY — It is a Saturday at the Chopo flea market, and the angst-ridden youth of Mexico’s blooming middle class have come to hang out. continue reading »
This is an issue we rarely think of because we do not have such experiences in our countries, but whenever media highlights it we are all shocked. Today a very large number of children are forced to take part in various wars around the world:
GABORONE, Botswana, 15 April 2008 – Around the world, 158 million children aged 5 to 14 are engaged in some form of child labour – that’s one child in every six. In sub-Saharan Africa, the proportion is even higher, at one in three. However, many countries are only just becoming aware of the extent of this problem. continue reading »
Learn to perform traditional and contemporary African dance, drumming and music with the Merseyside Dance Initiative Annual Summer School. continue reading »
French President Jacques Chirac has joined leaders from across Africa in Mali for a two-day summit focusing on youth issues. continue reading »
According to Youth
Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), a school-based survey designed to produce a nationally representative sample of risk behaviors among students in grades 9-12 in USA in 1997: continue reading »
KIBERA, Kenya, 4 April 2008 – Kibera is Kenya’s largest slum, right in the heart of the capital city, Nairobi. The slum’s million-plus inhabitants struggle with extraordinary poverty and high crime rates. As is true throughout Kenya, the vast majority of Kibera’s residents are under the age of 30, and less than half of the district’s youths ever begin secondary school. continue reading »
By Guy Hubbard
Inmates here live on top of each other. They sleep, eat and wash in an area meant for only 30 prisoners. An open sewer runs through their cellblock, the roof leaks and all the mattresses are infested with lice. continue reading »
Once we were speaking about hunger, now we speak about malnutrition; we may have changed the word to describe the situation, but the results are the same: death and in the best case survivors vulnerable to illness and intellectually disabled. continue reading »
