This press release was originally released by Sheraa. 

With 140,000 Rohingya Muslims arriving in Bangladesh after fleeing from persecution in Myanmar, there are calls for Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto leader of Myanmar, to be stripped of her Nobel Peace Prize.

Next month at One Young World Summit 2017 in Bogotá, a Plenary Session on Leadership & Government will seek to answer the question: “If Governments Don’t Uphold Human Rights, What Can We Do?”

The very first of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals is to “End Poverty In All Its Forms Everywhere” and One Young World’s 2017 Summit will address this challenge by asking the question: “How Can We Innovate Our Way Out of Poverty?”

His Excellency General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Retd) Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia and Her Excellency Lady Cosgrove were delighted to welcome One Young World delegates, Ambassadors and sponsors to the annual Oceania pre-Summit reception at Government House in Canberra. They were joined by guest of honour, Her Excellency Clemencia Forero-Ucros the Ambassador of the Republic of Colombia to Australia. 

With Hurricane Irma devastating the Caribbean in the wake of a summer of deadly flooding from Texas to Sierra Leone, the susceptibility of the world to natural disaster has rarely been so stark.

One Young World Summit 2017 in Bogotá, which opens on 4 October, will put the onus on governments and communities to do more to protect their environment by addressing the pressing question: “What is Holding Back The Clean Energy Revolution?”

One Young World will achieve a global first by hosting at its annual Summit the team of Young Leaders chosen by the United Nations to champion the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

The landmark attendance of these outstanding change-makers at the One Young World Summit in Bogotá, Colombia, on 4-7 October, will be the first time that they have gathered at an event not convened by the UN.