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.

The difficulties to define the Topic: the wide area, the diversity on approaches and treatments, the selection of topics –always arbitrary-, the understanding of juvenile cultual phenomena, location of the problems, just to point out the immediate ones.

Of course, a biggest difficulty is the actual topic of this state of art: juvenile culture. If youth is almost irreducible to one concept, delimitation and definition of juvenile culture becomes a truly investigatory exercise.  We recognize three big lines:
1- Culture, identity and tradition regarding modernization proposal.
2- Cultural productions of youth
3- Juvenile cultural consume

Massive means of communication are no longer the priority on this deliberations, instead, cultural consumption appears; the tradition-modernity conflict is now seen from the perspective of globalization and, the cultural productions tend to move towards actual juvenile spaces, rather than movements.
This amazing phenomena called youth, -so dynamic for its changing nature, so strange and close at the same time- worries us, most likely because it reflects clearly the human condition.

There is a big consensus among the fact that education is the main public policy on youth, and also, there is an almost unanimous agreement on the fact that education is a basic tool in the construction of citizenship, in order to promote the social integration, the development of highly productive human resources and, for the cultural creation at all levels.

On the bond between education and youth, there are at least two relevant dimensions to consider:
- The access, permanency and the young men performance on the educative systems (formal and informal ones) as a main component of the acces to services and the consequent exercise of rights.
- The dynamic relation between juvenile culture and scholar culture on educative estabilshments, as a main dimension on the identity construction and property sense, as well as consolidation of intergenerational dialogues.
In both dimensions it’s important to systematize and divulge news, knowledge and promotional practices, and on this matter, this section of the Portal intends to give some orientations to search the web with more judgment elements. The different specific sections give the corresponding help.

Young people are the populational sector most sensitive and committed when it comes to environment and ecology of the region.
Proof of this is the great diversity and actions of juvenile groups that perform the defense and promotion of the environment. As well as the high juvenile membership of different ecologic groups in each country.

Several studies show highest conscience on ecological subjects and the growing predisposition of young men to promote preventive and educative actions on environmental topics.
The Portal of Youth propounds to collaborate with the different juvenile and ecological initiatives, promoting services and spaces to collaborate with the constant growth of  every body’s conscience, information and commitment with our environment.

Health of young men and women has very marked specifications comparing to any other populational sector. So, while children and elderly people deal with numerous and diverse diseases (for which there are treatments, medicines, etc) young people “don’t get ill”, in the classic sense at least, as is shown on the statistics related to diseases medical care. Actually, main causes of young people mortality and mortability have to do with “external causes”, related in almost every case to violence: car accidents, unsafe abortions, homicides and suicides, particularly.

Among the different risks to which young men and women are exposed, the infection and effects form HIV-AIDS is a very important one. This is particularly remarkable in the Caribbean, area in which, after Africa, registers the highest levels of prevalence and infection in the world. Tourism, in particular, has direct effects on this domains.

From this section, the Portal aspires to give information regularly on this thematics, including in a remarkable way the situation diagnosis and the expierences and programs that are being displayed to prevent and treat young men and women affected by this virus, in the different countries of the region.

Without a doubt, XXI century is clearly associated with the construction of the denominated information society, and in this frame, young men have and active and qualified role to play (in fact, they are already actively participating on this domains), given that they are more and better than adults to deal with the change permanency and the knowledge centrality, two of the main “rules” of this times and the future.

On the victim quality, as on criminal, young people (specially boys) establish a complex and perverse connection with violence, that has a lot and very diverse specific edges. This is –doubtless- a boundary that worries (and very much) society as a whole, its leading classes and all public opinion, given that this dynamics are lived on terms of the growing citizen insecurity, that counts on important components where young people and felony run into each other in many ways.

During this decade, Latin America governments have started to recognize and encourage the complementary part organizations of the civil society can perform on national growth.

There is a highly propitious field for juvenile volunteer action promotion. For many experts, this is very relevant as a chance to revert dislocations and frustrations of latinamerican youth.

The problem of juvenile unemployment is visualized on the world, even in evolved countries as a highly prior social challenge.  The segment of young men deals with complexities and obstacles, but with bigger difficulty than the average of population: juvenile unemployment rate doubles and triples the general unemployment rate.

Young men acquire a trascendant value and preponderant part, building the strategic resource of society’s integral promotion, being education, formation and training the keys to individual and social construction.