The exercise of citizenship involves a great deal of practices young people can and must carry out, which transcend the responsibility and the right to choose democratic governors through the vote. It also implies being able to actively participate on the community entities of all kind, inter relating to other people and become fully right subjects. Our societies, marked by an important adult centrism often deny, reduce and/or hindrance the new generation’s recognition and right to a fully exercise of citizenship.
Citizenship is stated in many ways and in many areas and spaces, you may speak of citizenship on a classic sense referred to the civic and political rights exercise, as well as economic and social rights, that referre to a person’s relationship with power (political citizenship). You can also speak of cultural citizenship, social citizenship, individual citizenship, emancipatory citizenship, each one referred to a human activity area.
The portal priors the topic of young men’s citizenship promotion, on the understood that are fully right subjects now a days and the exercise of these benefits the whole society since it is a way of real and democratic imclusion of them in society.
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UNICEF and Innovations in Civic Participation release new publication on adolescent participation in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 12 July 2010 )
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Do you want to influence how the world works and stop discrimination and violence against girls? The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will meet on 1-12 March 2010 in New York.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 20 January 2010 )
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One of the guiding principles of UNICEF is the participation of girls and boys in all decisions that affect their lives. We invite you to take part in this Voices of Youth initiative.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 04 December 2009 )
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To celebrate International Youth Day on August 12, 2009, Innovations in Civic Participation (ICP) is sharing some innovative stories of youth civic engagement throughout the world.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 13 August 2009 )
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The 2nd Forum of Ministers and High-Ranking Officials responsible for Youth in Central America will be held in San Jose (Costa Rica), from 21-22 August, 2009 on the theme: “Towards the institutionalization of public programs of prevention”.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 13 August 2009 )
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SUSTAINABILITY: Our Challenge. Our Future. Message from Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, UNFPA Executive Director. It is often said that young people are our future. They are our present, too. It is today, and not tomorrow, that we must invest in young people and include them in solving the great challenges of our times.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 10 August 2009 )
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