Human Rights and Discrimination in the EU..What do you think Antigone?
Young participants, most of them from member organizations, were willing to contribute to the seminar and share experiences on human rights, related to the promotion of the freedom of conscience and the new ‘Equal-Treatment’ Directive proposed by the EU. First thing I loved about these days was that it embraced diversity: There were people from […]
My Internship Experience
I got to know about WYA from a friend and so far my only regret is that i didn’t know about it any sooner. My first meeting with WYA members was at an Ubuchindami film. I was amazed at how welcoming and jovial this group of youth was,a complete contrast to what i had of […]
EU treaty, Dignity and Hot Whiskey: an Irish tale
Dear friends,World Youth Alliance was invited to give a speech to the Irish Parliament (Oireachtas) Sub-Committee on Ireland’s Future in the European Union on November 12th. This hearing took in Dublin and it aimed to analyze the challenges that Ireland is facing following the Lisbon treaty Referendum results. Rebecca Austen (WYA Director of Advocacy) and […]
A Quest to Understand Human Dignity
I had just cleared school and was overly keyed up about the next phase of life. For this next phase I only had two things in mind-to be a successful Perry mason (criminal Defense lawyer) and to make lots of money. It didn’t take long before I secured a job with one of the best […]
World Youth Alliance at Yale
I had the distinct pleasure last week to travel up to Yale University to meet with students, leaders, and members of different organizations to start developing a World Youth Alliance campus group. How I love being up in the New England towns like New Haven (which is where Yale is). The leaves are all changing […]
Introducing the World Youth Alliance Europe (October-December 2008)
The last three months of my life have been filled with exciting experiences, as well as new people with different backgrounds and ideas, but still with very similar goals in life. The point is that here I am now, living in Brussels, being part of this youth organization that has directed my life in an […]
New York City Adventure
Last Saturday Gina Fullam (a summer 08 intern) and I were able to see months of our work come to fruition in the New York City Adventure. Twenty high school and college students joined us on a somewhat gray Saturday to run around New York to better understand the work of WYA and this wonderful […]
Sweet Solidarity
At WYA, one of our goals is to promote solidarity among young people around the globe. After three weeks as an intern, I have realized that the first step in promoting global solidarity is building solidarity among the young people here in the WYA house. Solidarity sounds like a lofty, abstract concept, right? That’s what […]
Fall at WYA North America
Welcome fall 2008. It has been a couple weeks since we have updated the blog, mostly because we were in transition. All of the summer interns have packed up and left, and we had a couple wonderful weeks when all of World Youth Alliance’s International Staff came here to New York. Our directors and directors […]
Finishing Up the Summer
“Goodbye to another summer,” reads the gmail-chat tag line of one of our summer interns here, Clare, who has already gone back to university in New Brunswick. We all spent the last week finalizing our reports, meeting with our supervisors here and handing in the completed projects for the summer internship. The desks were cleaned […]