Ambassador Yeonmi Park's emotional speech at the One Young World Summit 2014 in Dublin has found renewed attention online. Yeonmi's video, in which she details her harrowing escape from North Korea, was republished on the 'Higher Perspective' Facebook page. To date, the video has been shared nearly 1.5 million times and gathered over 82 million views.
On 4 October 2016 Hurricane Matthew, a category four hurricane, ravaged the south of Haiti killing approximately 900 people, destroying 200,000 homes and leaving 1.4 million people in need with damages estimated at US$1.89 billion.
The Kofi Annan Foundation, European Commission and One Young World are pleased to invite you to a youth-led discussion on the crucial contribution of young people in preventing and countering violent extremism - "Extremely Together - Youth Perspectives on Preventing & Countering Violent Extremism".
From a young age, Waseem Abu Salem has been passionate about computer programming. Having graduated from an intensive dual Bachelor degree program in Computer Science and Law from the University of Haifa, he recognised a major gap in the skills market which demanded coding and programming abilities. It was out of this observation that he founded Loop to equip younger generations with these tools.
With less than a week to go until the general elections in the Netherlands, many Dutch citizens are wondering what the future will hold. There are a record 28 parties on the ballot next Wednesday, 15 March, several of which have only been established in the past year.
After speaking at the One Young World Summit 2016 in Ottawa, Canada, Kevin Mendez returned to his home country Belize as a One Young World Ambassador to continue the fight for LGBT rights. We asked him what drove him to lead the change in his country's laws and culture, and how his work has developed since the Summit.
Who are you, and what have you done to create positive change?
From a young age, Tabata excelled in public schooling on the outskirts of São Paulo, collecting over 30 medals in math and science competitions around the world.
At Suade we are pushing the boundaries of what people are now calling Regulatory Technology (RegTech).
Canada has one of the world’s highest standards of living, but in the Far North, families are suffering from a lack of adequate food. Nunavut suffers from one of the highest rates of food insecurity in the country, where adequate quantities of food don’t reach over half of children and youth.
In honor of Black History Month in the United States, I’ve taken inspiration from Martin Luther King Jr’s book Why We Can’t Wait to talk about the need for all of us to be held accountable in the fight for racial justice.
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