You, Your Life, Your Dreams is a book that helps young people make informed decisions about their sexual lives. Easy to read and visually attractive, it provides accessible, objective, and urgently-needed information on a broad range of sexual and reproductive health issues. Designed for young people and for educators who work with them, the manual was originally conceived for use in English-speaking Africa, and is now being distributed in three languages and four different versions reflecting the regional contexts and the unique challenges facing adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Download Part I, Part II, Part III for the English- speaking Caribbean

Youth Coalition is an international organization of young people (ages 15-29 years) committed to promoting adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive rights at the national, regional and international levels. We are students, researchers, lawyers, health care professionals, educators, development workers, and most importantly, we are all dedicated activists.

This is the third edition of the Youth Supplement to UNFPA’s State of the World Population Report. The 2008 Report focuses on the interactions among culture, gender, and human rights and the critical importance of culturally sensitive approaches for effective development policies and programmes. Available here

The North-South Centre of the Council of Europe is happy to announce the Global Education Week (GEW) happening from November 15 to November 23. The GEW encourages all interested constituencies to implement global education awareness-raising activities in their professional background. For your guidance, we invite you to access the North-South Centre special webpage dedicated to the Global Education Week.

The tenth annual European Global Education Week (GEW) will take place from the 15th to the 23rd of November 2008, at the initiative of the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe.

As the month is passing by quickly, we are approaching our Be the Change! deadline. October 31st is this year's last call for project proposals to be funded by the Be the Change! Youth-led Action Programme. It means you have the LAST WEEK to put your project application together, discuss last minute details with our regional desk officers and submit your final application form together with your CV and sample pictures.

INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE, Mexico City—Purnima Mane, Deputy Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and Gill Greer, Director-General of IPPF, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, in collaboration with Young Positives and the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, today launched Make it Matter, a guide to help prevent HIV among girls and young women.

The World Assembly of Youth (WAY) is pleased to extend an invitation for you to participate in the celebration of the International Youth Day. The International Youth Day (IYD) is an annual opportunity that recognizes the youth and celebrates their achievements and pushes for their participation in all areas of society.

The background paper prepared by Claudia Jacinto and Javier Lasida (RedEtis-IIPE) for the WGICSD meeting held in Buenos Aires on actors, strategies, activities and perspectives of international cooperation in TVET programmes addressed to youth and focused on unemployment and poverty in Latin America. Download the document

More than 140 countries worldwide will observe World Population Day on 11 July by emphasizing the importance of family planning for the well-being of families, communities and nations, and by underlining the need to further integrate such services into national development plans. Also check out a report by UNFPA on youth and family planning.