The Youth Caucusu of the UN-CSD would like to give visibility of youth creativity and is now planning for a youth film festival and photo/art exhibit to be organised at the UN Headquartes in New York. Please submit your work to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it until March 31st. No later submissions will be considered.

The YEN Secretariat in Geneva is currently recruiting a "Sub-regional Coordinator" to its YEN Office for West Africa (YEN-WA) in Dakar, Senegal. The mandate of the unit is to raise awareness and to assist in mainstreaming youth employment as both a political and security issue, to facilitate capacity-building both at the national and regional level, and to promote private sector involvement in initiatives for youth employment.

The Melaka International Youth Dialogue (MIYD) is an annual programme of the World Assembly of Youth (WAY) which brings together young people and youth leaders from around the world to discuss pertinent youth issues. Since 2001, the MIYD has been convened on a wide range of topical issues. More than 1,500 young people have attended the MIYD since its inception. The MIYD produces a declaration which serves as a guideline for youth to address the selected issues.

This advocacy guide is the result of a joint effort between style="font-size: 11pt;">UNFPA, IPPF, and YoungPositives, as Co-convenors on HIV Prevention for Young Women and Girls, through the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA). This guide is for any individual or organization with a role to play in advocacy and policy making on HIV prevention for girls and young women at the national level.

WELCOME to the UN Youth Flash, a service of the United Nations Programme on Youth to keep you informed about the work of the UN on youth issues. In this issue: Feature: Furthering the youth agenda through International Youth Day - Highlights from UN Headquarters - Highlights from UN agencies around the world - Calendar of Youth Events - On the Internet. UN Youth Flash can be read on-line here

The World Assembly of Youth (WAY) is the international coordinating body of national youth councils and organisations. The full members of WAY are national youth councils. WAY has 120 member organisations from all continents. In this bulletin: Gambia, Nigeria, Ghana, Angola, Singapore, Kenya, Brunei Darussalam, Azerbaijan, Fiji, South Africa, Ubekistan, Antigua and Barbuda, Pakistan, Denmark, Australia and Belgium.