What is Freedom?
Freshman year, a friend asked of me, half-hopefully, half-skeptically, “what is freedom?” It’s a fair question. We found ourselves slumped across couches in a common room overlooking an ivied-brick quad because we had followed the path laid out before us: assignments, graduations, competitions, applications, a big purple folder, now another stack of assignments. Had […]
International Solidarity Forum: The US, the UN, and the Journey of a Dream
Three weeks ago, I participated as part of the Asia Pacific Delegation for the 2015 International Solidarity Forum (ISF) held at the World Youth Alliance Headquarters and the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. I flew a long way from Jakarta to New York for approximately 24 hours onboard. But the jetlag never bogged […]
World Down Syndrome Day in the European Parliament
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the World Down Syndrome Day that has been officially recognized as the 21st of March by the United Nations since 2012, the World Youth Alliance Europe in collaboration with the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation has initiated a series of activities and events that took place in the European […]
#socksbattle4DS: Campaign for World Down Syndrome
The 21st of March is the World Down Syndrome Day. To celebrate with us this special day, it’s very easy! Like our Facebook page and invite your friends to join us on our event in Facebook! The online campaign for the World Down Syndrome Day will begin the 5th of March and will last until the 21st of March. […]
The European Courts of Human Rights support Surrogacy
Clara Watson, WYA UK As the registered motion against surrogate motherhood, that states “Surrogacy undermines the human dignity of the woman carrier as her body and its reproductive function are used as a commodity,”[i] awaits discussion by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), the European Court of Human Rights (belonging to […]
Advocacy Team attends consultation at the OAS
On Friday, February 6, the Organization of American States (OAS) hosted its national consultation with US civil society, in order to prepare for the VII Summit of the Americas, to be held in Panama in April. After a presentation by Ambassadors Alfonso Quiñónez and Jorge Miranda, as well as a video conference with Ambassador Max […]
A forgotten witness in the fight against anti-semitism on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
Seventy years ago this day Allied troops arrived at the concentration camp of Auschwitz, greeting what survivors remained and seeing for the first time an industrial killing machine of unprecedented scale and brutality. As the epicenter of the Nazi genocide, Auschwitz is synonymous with the vast network of death camps built up during the Third […]
Abortion back on the agenda of the European Union
The recent report on the Progress on equality between women and men in the European Union in 2013 underlines the priority for Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights in EU policy-making. It has been adopted this 20th of January 2015 in the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality by 27 members against 7. This report […]
Parliament Report: Human Trafficking in the European Union
WYA Europe’s coverage of the recent progress update from EU’s Anti-Trafficking Coordinator, Myria Vassiliadou.
WYA Europe Emerging Leaders Conference 2014 Report
This year, WYA Europe’s Emerging Leaders Conference took up the theme of the International Year of the Family and Youth Unemployment Crisis. Read more for a report on the weeklong conference which drew members from across Europe as well as distinguished guest speakers.