Meet WYA Africa’s 2nd Batch of 2017 Interns
My name is Daniella Gathiri. Born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. I recently completed high school in Loreto High School Limuru and I am awaiting university admission later in the year. I have an interest in WYA because I realize that a lot of people my age are not aware of their intrinsic dignity as […]
Debating Death #1: Should Liberal Societies Legalize Euthanasia?
Bodily Autonomy, Negative Liberty, and Positive Freedom This is a first in a series of “Debating Death” articles which thematize ethical, political, medical, legal, social and cultural aspects of legalizing euthanasia. It is commonly understood that liberal societies are based on a concept of negative liberty. The notion was first introduced by Hobbes in Leviathan […]
Celebrating World Down Syndrome Day in the European Parliament
Responsibility and a good team are the most important requirements once you have to work on a project. These were, without any doubt, included into the requirements of the Down syndrome campaign that was organized by the World Youth Alliance Europe. I have something more to add to these requirements, something that I discovered myself […]
Art, Culture, and Human Dignity
We as the young people at the World Youth Alliance urge the society to embrace our culture because it gives us a sense of belonging and gets its foundation from human dignity; it also plays a major role in impacting our understanding of human dignity on an individual and societal level: Provides integral human development […]
My Struggle in Comprehending Freedom
Human freedom is always perceived to be a universal phenomenon whose principal landscape is globally acceptable and applied. Although this premise is somewhat accurate, it poses the risk of masking how freedom is understood and responded to within a specific setting that might take the shape of a region, an indigenous community, a country or […]
My Experience with the I and Thou reading by Martin Buber
I and Thou, I-Thou, and I-It Martin Buber was a prominent twentieth-century philosopher, religious thinker, political activist, and educator. Born in Austria, he spent most of his life in Germany and Israel, writing in German and Hebrew. He is best known for his 1923 book, Ich und Du (I and Thou), which distinguishes […]
I-You, He-She, It!
The Women’s March, International Women’s Day, and the 61st Commission of the Status of Women are just some of the ways that quite recently, women have taken over the international spotlight. The topic is unavoidable, but just what are we talking about? The women’s movement sparks millions of questions and quite possibly even more different […]
Friendship and the Gift of Self: How I have grown in WYA
As I write this, I’m lost in a sea of emotion. I look back at how far I have come, and how much growth I’ve experienced, and it feels unbelievable. I’m overwhelmed by how fast time has gone by. The events that led to my application for this internship at WYAA seem to have been […]
Are we doing our best for the health of people with trisomy 21?
World Youth Alliance in collaboration with Jerome Lejeune Foundation and two members of the European Parliament (MEPs) Miroslav Mikolasik and Marek Jurek hosted a debate with people with Down Syndrome and renewed European Researchers C. Mircher, L. Meijer, M. Dierssen, Y. Herautl and J. Fortea on the 21st of March 2017 in the European Parliament. […]
My First Step towards becoming a Dignity Defender
Although I recently finished the online Certified Training Program (2016 – Batch 3), I am happily embracing new waves of positive energy and I know that more exciting challenges are lying ahead. The World Youth Alliance presents an opportunity for me to grow on both personal and group level. It is an international multicultural environment where […]