- World Youth Foundation

HURRY!!EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION ENDS ON 28th
FEBRUARY 2016!!
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CHILD MARRIAGE:
"STRENGTH IN UNITY, GIRLS ARE NOT BRIDES - A
GLOBAL YOUTH PARTNERSHIP TO END CHILD
MARRIAGE", 19th - 22nd MAY 2016, MELAKA, MALAYSIA
(Tentative)
We have the pleasure to inform you that World Youth Foundation ("an NGO in Special
Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations"),
will be hosting the International Conference on Child Marriage: Strength in Unity,
Girls Not Brides - A Global Youth Partnerships to End Child Marriage tentatively
scheduled to be held from 19th - 22nd May 2016 in collaboration with Ministry of Women,
Family & Community Development Malaysia, Ministry of Youth and Sports Malaysia and
various other agencies.
The International Conference on Child Marriage: Strength in Unity, Girls Are Not
Brides - A Global Youth Partnerships to End Child Marriage will provide an opportunity
for young people to discuss, understand, share, find solutions and develop
strategies on issues pertaining to youth and child marriage that can be implemented at
country level.
Among the objectives of this International Conference are:
To raise awareness of the above issues and the related dangers of youths
worldwide;
To increased awareness regarding child marriage laws and the consequences of
child marriage among individuals, families and the community;
To educate and empower youths worldwide, both men and women about human
rights and attitudes towards gender;
To increase the awareness and responsiveness of law enforcement, governments to
the issues of gender violence including child bride;
To encourage people to set up preventative measures/courses to roll out in primary
& secondary education and community centres.
Registration Fees for the International Conference are:
Early Bird Registration (on / before 28th February 2016)
Local Participants - RM 450.00
International Students Staying in Malaysia - RM 450.00
International Participants - USD 110.00
Late Registration (after 28th February 2016)
Local Participants - RM 540.00
International Students Staying in Malaysia - RM 540.00
International Participants - USD 120.00
The Open Call for Participation, FAQ, Application Form and Payment Details and relevant
details can be found at here.
We seek your assistance to disseminate the events details widely on our behalf to
members on your mailing list.
FIRST
STRATEGY
MEETING
WITH
STAMFORD
COLLLEGE MALACCA FOR HEFORSHE CAMPAIGN 2016
On
14th January 2016, World Youth Foundation conducted the First Strategy Meeting with
Stamford College Malacca with regards to organising an open day for the #HeForShe
Campaign in March 2016. The meeting was attended by lecturers and volunteers from
Stamford College Malacca with vibrant discussions and brain storming sessions. The
meeting was chaired by Ms Varsha Ajmera, Chief Operations Officer of World Youth
Foundation.
HEFORSHE IMPACT CEOS RELEASE GENDER PARITY
DATA AT DAVOS 2016
Ten of the world's leading companies
have released new workforce gender
diversity figures in UN Women's
inaugural HeForShe Parity Report. The
findings were unveiled during the World
Economic Forum annual meeting in
Davos at an IMPACT 10x10x10 event
attended by the firm's CEOs, alongside Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Under-SecretaryGeneral and Executive Director of UN Women, and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador
Emma Watson. More info at here.
WHAT IS THE ROLE OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE FIGHT
FOR GENDER EQUALITY?
A deeper look at the global population
brings out a striking image of the ever
increasing gender disparities in the way
societies treat young women and men.
On one hand, women are still treated
as subordinates in many parts of the
world; they face multiple layers of
discrimination; a range of interrelated
challenges affect their leadership in
economic, social, political, cultural and
civil spheres; and those belonging to
certain class and ethnicity also face
compounded levels of discrimination.
While on the other hand, their male peers are often seen enjoying better treatment, which
further results in a higher status and an improved position in the society. This is not to say
that men do not face any discrimination at all. They do, especially when it is related to
ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and disability. By Ravi Karkara. Read more at here.
PUTTING GENDER EQUALITY AT
GOVERNANCE IN MOROCCO
THE HEART
OF
UN Women's flagship report Progress of
the
World's
Women
2015-2016:
Transforming
Economies,
Realizing
Rights offers a far-reaching policy agenda
to transform economies and make
women's rights a reality. It features a
series of case studies from all over the
world which illustrate how governments,
organizations and feminist actors, both
women and men, are working to
transform the economic landscape for women. See more at here.
UN ANNOUNCES FIRST-EVER HIGH-LEVEL PANEL ON
WOMEN'S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has
announced the first-ever High-Level Panel
on Women's Economic Empowerment to
provide thought leadership and mobilize
concrete actions aimed at closing
economic gender gaps that persist
around the world. The Panel will provide
recommendations for the implementation
of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development to improve economic
outcomes for women and promote
women's leadership in driving sustainable
and inclusive, environmentally sensitive
economic growth. The panel is backed by the United Kingdom, the World Bank Group and
UN Women. See more at here.
PAKISTAN FAILURE TO OUTLAW CHILD MARRIAGE
SPARKS OUTCRY
Activists in Pakistan have demanded the
removal of the chief of the Council of
Islamic Ideology (CII) after a bill to
increase the minimum legal age for
marriage from 16 to 18 was opposed and
termed "blasphemous" by the advisory
body. The National Assembly's Standing
Committee on Religious Affairs and
Interfaith Harmony rejected the "child
marriage restraint" bill after the council
dubbed it "anti-Islamic". According to a
UNICEF estimate, 3 percent of girls in Pakistan are married before they turn 15 and 21
percent before age 18. Read more at here.
2016: THE START OF A NEW ERA...
Launch of new sustainable development
agenda to guide development actions for
the next 15 years. . Your voice counts.
The
United
Nations
Environment
Assembly (UNEA) wants to hear from
you and has created this space
especially for you. Learn about what the
UN is doing for the environment. Engage
with the UN and help inform policy makers. Visualise what matters most to you. More
information at here.
TRANSITIONING FROM MDGS TO SDGS: ENGAGING
YOUTH
The Forum discussed ways in which
young people can and are helping to
manage the shift from the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) to the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
It also addressed ways to ensure that
the needs and priorities of all youth are
at the centre of the future development
agenda and its implementation. The Youth Forum brought young leaders from around the
world to the UN Headquarters in New York. It is a platform for youth to engage in dialogue
with Member States and contribute to policy formulation on economic and social aspects.
See more at here.
FIRST STEPS TOWARDS ACHIEVING THE SDGS - SHARE
YOUR STORIES AND IMAGES
It's 2016 and the era of the sustainable
development goals is officially here. The
world has just 15 years to achieve 17
enormously varied and ambitious targets,
from ending malnutrition to ensuring
access to adequate, safe and affordable
housing for all. You can share your
photos, videos and experiences by
clicking on the blue 'Contribute' button on
this article. More info at here.
WORLD EMPLOYMENT
TRENDS 2016
AND
SOCIAL
OUTLOOK:
The World Employment and Social Outlook is the ILO's
flagship report on world of work issues. Exploring the
inter-connected nature of macroeconomic policies on the
one hand, and employment and social outcomes on the
other, it analyses which policy combinations are most
effective in delivering high employment and balanced
incomes. The publication also provides readers with the
most up-to-date global as well as regional labour market
and social indicators. See more at here.
YOUTH POPULATION
DEVELOPMENT
TRENDS
AND
SUSTAINABLE
Did you know? There were 1.2 billion
youth aged 15-24 years globally in 2015,
and by 2030, the number of youth is
projected to have grown by 7%, to nearly
1.3 billion. To find more, check out
UNDESA Population Facts on youth
population trends and sustainable
development at here.
10 THINGS YOU WON'T
BELIEVE ABOUT
HUMAN
TRAFFICKING
January 11th is National Human
Trafficking Awareness Day in the US. It's
common to think trafficking only occurs
in places such as Southeast Asia or
Eastern Europe, but it's a global problem
affecting the world's most vulnerable
people, especially girls, women and
children. That's why the US Senate
established this day in 2007 to create
awareness and work to end human
trafficking. The numbers behind human
trafficking are difficult to fully grasp but
these are some staggering facts that you
won't believe. More info at here.
YOUNG, GIFTED AND HELD BACK
Roughly a quarter of the world's peoplesome 1.8 billion-have turned 15 but not
yet reached 30. In many ways, they are
the luckiest group of young adults ever to
have existed. They are richer than any
previous generation, and live in a world
without smallpox or Mao Zedong. They
are the best-educated generation everHaitians today spend longer in school
than Italians did in 1960. Thanks to all
that extra learning and to better nutrition,
they are also more intelligent than their elders. If they are female or gay, they enjoy greater
freedom in more countries than their predecessors would have thought possible. And they
can look forward to improvements in technology that will, say, enable many of them to live
well past 100. So what, exactly, are they complaining about? Read more at here.
CAN WE PLEASE STOP PRETENDING MARIJUANA IS
HARMLESS?
These days, it's become fairly square to
criticize marijuana and its rush toward
legalization. Twenty-three states have
condoned the drug in some form, with
four permitting recreational use, and
Massachusetts is set to vote on
permitting it next year. The proposed
federal CARERS Act of 2015 would let
states legalize medical marijuana without
federal interference and demote pot from
a Schedule I drug-one with high abuse
potential-to Schedule II. The path toward
nationwide decriminalization is looking unobstructed. Read more at here.
THIS TECHNOLOGY IS 100 TIMES FASTER THAN WI-FI
A new technology, known as Li-Fi, could
one day offer internet speeds one
hundred times faster than the Wi-Fi we
use
today.
Scientists
have
achieved speeds in the lab of up to 224
GB per second. That's the equivalent
of downloading 18 movies in the blink of
an eye. Li-Fi, or light fidelity, is now
moving to trials in the real world, with
office tests in Tallin, Estonia achieving speeds of 1 GB per second, 100 times the speed of
traditional Wi-Fi. Read more at here.
IF OCEANS WERE A COUNTRY...
The World Wildlife Fund recently
estimated that the total asset base of the
ocean is valued at US$24 trillion, and the
annual "gross marine product" (GMP) equivalent to a country's annual gross
domestic product - is at least US$2.5
trillion. To make that real, imagine that
we gave every person alive in the world
today US$350 every year; we'd still have
a little left over from the wealth we
extract from the oceans annually. If the
ocean were a country it would have the
seventh largest economy in the world - larger than Brazil's or Russia's. Read more at here.
FRESH GRADUATES
EMPLOYERS
NOT
UP
TO
MARK,
SAY
According to online recruitment platform
JobStreet's latest survey, employers are
disappointed with Malaysian fresh
graduates with 70% reporting that the
standards of fresh graduates were just
average. During the unveiling of the
November 2015 survey, Chook Yuh Yng,
JobStreet country manager (pic) said
24% of employers also believed that
graduates' standards "were bad and only
6%
said
they
were
good,"
reportedComputerworld Malaysia. The
poor ratings were not generally linked to
their academic qualifications, but rather
their poor attitudes and communication skills shown during interviews or at work, Chook
said. Read more at here.
EVENTS
6th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HIV & WOMEN 2016
Website:
http://www.virology-education.com/event/upcoming/international-workshop-hivwomen-2016/
8th ASIA PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON REPRODUCTIVE AND SEXUAL HEALTH AND
RIGHTS
Website: http://www.mm8apcrshr.org
10th REGIONAL CONGRESS - SEARCH FOR SEAMEO SCIENCE YOUNG SCIENTISTS
"YOUTH INNOVATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY"
Website: http://www.recsam.edu.my/ssys/
2nd SEAMEO YOUTH LEADERSHIP FORUM
Website:http://www.youthop.com/conferences/call-for-applications-seameo-youthleadership-forum-2016-in-thailand-3350
2016 COMMONWEALTH CONFERENCE ON YOUTH WORK
Website: http://thecommonwealth.org/media/event/ccyw
7th UNAOC GLOBAL FORUM
Website: http://apply.unaoc.org/
WOMEN DELIVER 2016
Website: http://wd2016.org/
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CHILD MARRIAGE: "STRENGTH IN UNITY, GIRLS
ARE NOT BRIDES - A GLOBAL YOUTH PARTNERSHIP TO END CHILD MARRIAGE".
Website: http://wyf.org.my/upcoming-events/
WORLD HUMANITARIAN SUMMIT 2016
Website: https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/
69th WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY
Website: http://www.everywomaneverychild.org/global-strategy-2
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