Children’s Rights

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CAPs Friday (18/05/2012)

As you are probably aware of, we have just completed our Spring 2012 Cycle of Project applications. We were really pleased to receive such a large number of applications and are currently deciding which initiatives we will support. The results will be published here on 31 May for CAPs, GAPs and WBI-CAPs.   The annual [...]

“Human Rights: Not Merely an Internal Affair”

In 1948 Eleanor Roosevelt predicted that human rights would creep like “a curious grapevine” into public conciousness around the globe.Dismissed at that time as utopian fantasy, her forecast has proven more prescient than the scepticism of her critics. The prepositions that all human beings- whatever their nationality, culture, or location possess specific inalienable rights simply [...]

Project Applications – Spring Cycle

Hello Changemakers! Our next cycle of project applications will start tomorrow and will run until 15 May. We will be accepting applications for regular CAPs, WBI CAPs and GAPs as well as the Rachel CAP. Some tips before you apply: -    Use the Global Changemakers Project Management toolkit to make sure you went through every [...]

Zimbabwe’s Status in Human Rights Situation for Women and Girls

HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE YOUTHS IN ZIMBABWE: An Overview Zimbabwe and the Southern African region has experienced gross abuses of human rights and this has impacted on development in all sectors of life, politically, economically and socially. There are widespread reports of systematic and escalating violations of human rights in the region and in Zimbabwe [...]

Reminder: Facebook groups

New to the Global Changemakers community? Looking for people working on similar issues and in the same region? Check out our Facebook groups! Our Facebook fan page can be found here – and if you want to join any of the groups, follow the links below: Issues Anti-corruption Children’s rights Conflict resolution Education Environment Human [...]

United Nations Association of Zimbabwe’s official visit to the World Federation of United Nation Associations

ZUNA OFFICIAL REPORT ON THE VISIT TO WFUNA Let me start by Congratulating the Zimbabwe United Nations Association Team and myself in achieving this long awaiting exposure that was presented to us on Friday the 24th of March in New York on my official meeting with the WFUNA President and the Youth Delegation that consisted [...]

Save our youths from tenacious snap of Drugs

At present, production and selling of drug (e.g. YABA, PETHIDINE, HEROIN, GANJA (Hemp), PHENSEDYL etc) is a very profitable business in this world. Many people in all over the world involve with this business by investing money as a producer, manufacturer and seller of those harmful drugs. By this illegal business, any investor can take [...]

My Stand for the Environment – Still, NO TO MINING!

Finally, Luzon got the guts to formally organize a conference on mining and ecology. The conference was held at University of Santo Tomas with  participants from different sectors. Big names from the PROs and ANTIs were there to voice out their stand and opinion on this pressing issue. This conference is also essential especially that [...]

Share love with orphans!

Dear Changemakers, I want to share with you some positive news. On the 14th of February 2012 some kind of charity project was done. Students Council of Vladivostok managed to collect a sum of money for repairing orphans-house and make it warmer. More than that, we held a great performance for little orphans. Maybe, St. [...]

We are the minority!

One of my favourite movies of all time was Slumdog Millionaire. I loved that movie, not only because it was filmed in India, a country I’m so fascinated by; not only because it talked about the unwitting intelligence of a young man, an idea that inspires me; not only because it affirmed the truth that [...]

Projects

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    Fireflies: Glowing future is a youth-lead organization that works  in nine different countries around the world.We make presentations in our communities [...]

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    In a developing country like Myanmar, poverty is the main thing that hinders the development of the people as well as [...]

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    Although metropolitan youngsters of Bangladesh are in touch with rest of the world many are still limited to their local rural [...]

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    Skul bilong Yumi is a term in the local national language of Papua New Guinea (pidgin) which means “Our School”. This [...]

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    Global Changemakers CEM is a student association, integrated by young activists, which aims to contribute positively in a wide range of [...]

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    A Daara is a place where parents send their children in order for them to receive Koranic education. The children who [...]

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    Our goal is to introduce youth of action in the way of the Warrior Without Weapons. In other words, we aim, [...]

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    The drive of this project is hope. We want to see a Malawi that is free from stigma and that is [...]

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    Kids Connected is a project aimed to raise awareness about children rights, to make the voices of the orphan children heard [...]

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    Teenage girls in rural areas of my community are managing a very challenging life, as a result, many girls make unwise [...]

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    This CAP, which is destined to put a smile on orphans’ faces, is divided into two parts: Firstly, there was a talent [...]

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    Women’s participation in political life marks stable and balanced development of modern society. The statistics says that those governments who have [...]

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    This CAP wants youth to start being pro-active in underdeveloped communities such as the Claremont community in South Africa and bring [...]

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    The ”Changed Children” Project is an initiative of Foundation for Turning Community Concern into Citizen Action in Nigeria Project. CCP is [...]

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    The ”Little Lion” Home-School acts directly with children and teenagers of 1 to 18 years old. Their mission is to provide shelter, [...]

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    Gira Mundo (the portuguese expression for ’World Turns’) is a social project that aims to attract exchange students to work an educational [...]

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