UNESCO is currently organizing the 6th UNESCO Youth Forum which will take place from 1-3 October 2009 in Paris as an integral part of the 35th UNESCO General Conference. The Youth Forum will give its youth participants the crucial opportunity to exchange views, share experiences, and identify common opportunities for future commitment and actions.

The organizers of the International Project Against Drugs "Be aware, NOT addicted!" invite interested institutions all over the world to promote the Competition "It's my life! It's my decision" through local, regional or national events under its aegis.

PROMOTING THE VALUE OF FREE, INDEPENDENT AND PLURAL MEDIA AND THE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AND AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN.

Children and adolescent communicators from twelve different countries launch the Latin American and Caribbean Network LACVOX.

Thank you for your continued support! The past 3 months have been extremely busy at YEN with a number of major developments. Find out about these and more by visiting the 20th edition of the YEN Newsletter at the following link: YEN Newsletter 20

More than 900 youth from across the country of Belize will converge at the Belize City Center tomorrow, Friday July 24, 2009 for a Rally and U-17 National Basketball Championship. These youth participated in the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)-sponsored “Ballers for Life” basketball camp held under the auspices of the Belize Basketball Federation (BBF).

Six post-graduate students at the Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, will represent the English-speaking Caribbean at the first annual Global Model United Nations Conference, which will be held in Geneva, Switzerland from 5 to 7 August 2009.

In commemoration of International Day of Cooperatives, we’ve decided to focus our July E-bulletin on Creative Communities. Find out how we as individuals can learn from each other through Community Life - in a more responsible way.

In order to respond to the HIV and AIDS pandemic, UNESCO, in collaboration with its partners, is developing a series of interactive multimedia tools, conceived as educational computer games.

Violence against Women UN TRUST FUND ALERT -   Drastic Shortfall in Resources Threatens Women's Safety.

This is the first newsletter as part of the global initiative Rework the World, run in partnership between the Tällberg Foundation and YES Inc. It builds towards the 5th Global YES Summit 2-5 June 2010, in Leksand, Sweden, where we will gather 2000 people around concrete efforts to Rework the World.

60 years in the life of an International NGO is in itself an achievement.For an individual, it is already the start of retirement, but for WAY, it is proof, beyond any doubt, that WAY has played a significant role up to now.