Promoting a Holistic View of Women and Girls at CSW58
The World Youth Alliance is currently attending the fifty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW58), which takes place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City from 10-21 March 2014. This is an annual two-week session where representatives of UN Member States, civil society and UN entities come together to […]
Empowerment Promoted at UN Commission for Social Development
The Fifty-second session of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD 52) took place from February 11-21, 2014 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. This year’s priority theme was “Promoting empowerment of people in achieving poverty eradication, social integration and full employment and decent work for all.” At the close of the CSocD 52 […]
The Real Challenge at the UN: WYA’s Work on the Commissions
What is happening at the UN? The eighth session of the UN General Assembly Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) took place the first week of February 2014 at UN Headquarters in New York. The World Youth Alliance has been following the unfolding process for the creation of the SDGs, which will take over […]
Family As Capital
The UN has main events where the meetings of the commissions unfold; this consists of General Assemblies and closed negotiations. The other meetings are side events, where panels can present on a specific topic. These meetings are more interactive and detailed. I was able to go on a side event this weekend that examined the […]
Manhattan International Film Festival: Behind the Scenes with Young Spanish Director
Enric Mellier was born in Paris in 1955. He grew up to become the best and most famous piano player in Paris. As he is about to give a piano concert, strange events start to happen inside the theater, events that make him to understand that he has a serious problem… (Plot synopsis for The […]
What Does Religious Freedom Mean?
Before I came to WYA North America headquarters here in the Big Apple State, I had a chance to meet with Grant Kollet, the Director of First Year Programs at the University of Washington, the college I attend. In a talk he gave during one of my classes, he challenged us to grow in our […]
Why One Child Means Zero Future
China’s aggressive one-child-per-family policy has cost it freedom, prosperity, and the lives of many Chinese. These have been sacrificed in the name of an economic progress that is doomed to be undermined by the very policy that aims to increase that progress. The one-child-policy aims to curb the overpopulation of China by imposing strict fines […]
Abortion, A Real Story
My sister lived in the U.S. for about two years and during this time, she got pregnant. My family and I were very excited because it was her first baby and my second nephew or niece. Despite her distance from our native Chile, we were happy because our family was about to become larger. During […]
The Estrela Report: Battle at the European Parliament
Europe recently witnessed a controversial debate at the European Parliament. The Estrela Report on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights was put forth by Edite Estrela, Portuguese MEP and Vice-President of the Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Commission at the European Parliament. To prepare the work of the European Parliament in plenary sessions, MEPs work […]
Why I Marched
Jeane Kirkpatrick, the first woman to ever serve as a US ambassador to the United Nations once said, “solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.” Well, she thought correctly. On March 22nd, despite the below freezing temperatures, my team members and I here at the World Youth Alliance joined a […]