The UNESCO Chair & Institute of Comparative Human Rights at the University of Connecticut invites applications for the fifth annual International Leadership Programme: A Global Intergenerational Forum, to be held August  1 - 9, 2009 in Storrs, Connecticut. Applications must be received by  February 27, 2009.

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The World Assembly of Youth (WAY) expresses its total condemnation to the daily mass killing of innocent Palestinian civilians through military criminal attack perpetrated by the Zionist State of Israel at the Gaza Strip, in Palestine with the blessing of the US administration.

Dear friends, warm greeting from the World Assembly of Youth (WAY) headquarter! The World Assembly of Youth is currently compiling its 2009 calendar of events. We would like to invite national youth councils, youth organisations, ministries responsible for youth, regional and international youth bodies, as well as intergovernmental bodies to email us details of your programmes and activities for the year 2009, to be consolidated with our calendar.

We are pleased to announce that the Report of the Secretary-General, Implementation of the World Programme of Action for Youth: progress and constraints with respect to the well-being of youth and their role in civil society , is now available on our website (www.un.org/youth). In the annexes you will find the final goals and targets for the clusters "youth and their well-being" and "youth in civil society".

With some 1.5 billion young people between the ages of 12 and 24 in the world, youth represent a tremendous opportunity to accelerate economic growth and reduce poverty worldwide. There has never been a better time to focus on young people. Young people are healthier and better educated than previous generations and they will join the workforce with fewer dependents because of changing demographics. It is proven that developing countries which invest in better education, healthcare, and job training of young people between the ages of 12 and 24 years of age could produce surging economic growth and sharply reduced poverty.