Please join us in celebrating the 2011 PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival award winners at a special awards ceremony at the Paley Center for Media in New York City on November 10th, 2011. Seating is limited; please RSVP(plural@unaoc.org) as soon as possible! PLURAL+ is a Youth Video Festival on Migration, Diversity and Social Inclusion. A joint project of the…
AFRICMIL Holds International Youth Day Lecture
As part of activities to mark the 2011 International Youth Day, the African Centre for Media & Information Literacy organised a lecture on “Social Media & the African Youth, Agenda for the 21st Century”. Over 150 participants, amongst them students, members of the National Youth Service Corps, representatives of government departments, NGO representatives, members of civil society,…
WorldDay for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
The Youth Media & Communication Initiative (YMCI) celebrated the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development in Nigeria on Saturday, May 21 with a dialogue session. The session had in attendance about 20 participants comprising journalists, religious leaders, students, and members of civil society. The aim was to identify the issues/strategies in support…
First Pre Forum of Civil Society of the Alliance of Civilizations, Doha, Qatar, May 3-4, 2011
The Doha Pre Forum was the first ever Forum of the UNAOC dedicated to Civil Society. It put into a new light the convergence of intercultural, governance and development issues, with a special focus on the Arab World. The Doha Pre Forum brought together more than 170 civil society leaders, representing regional and national networks. It was the…
African youth future endangered by dwindling reading culture, group says
Participants at this year’s International Day of the African Child …and Its Youth (IDAY) Nigeria Chapter have resolved to make book readings a culture among children and youths, in a bid to arrest the dwindling culture and in a bid to actualize goal number 2 of the Millennium development Goals in the year 2015. …