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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 [...]

1 Billion Youth Enterprises – the beginnings

We are going to turn 8 billion very soon but ever we wondered that half of the world population is living below poverty line! A billion losing lives for hunger and twice getting even less than US$ 1 a day. Where there is arrogance and hatred in this world, in darkness of hopelessness there are [...]

2012 Youth for Empowerment Forum Brazil – React and Change

React and Change is an online-driven, youth-led, non-profit brazilian organization committed to activating youth to combat gender inequality and its derivates, such as bullying, unemployment, violence against women, racism and poverty by educating and empowering  youth through social entrepreneurship, leadership skills and advocacy . We hold a diverse of events across the country, gathering young leaders, [...]

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 [...]

Should take initiatives to set up Library for Farmers, Garment Workers and other poor professionals

[Summary of this blog: We know education and knowledge always act as an asset for everyone’s life. Library can do a big roll for learning. However, our farmers, garment workers and another poor service holders, labors have no opportunity, necessary education and time to access in library. For that reason, now most of them are [...]

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 [...]

Projects

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    Youth is an important element in Indonesian politics. History has shown how youth movements play a great role in Indonesian political [...]

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    In these days, most of the people try to create more opportunities for young generation relatively than old generations. The [...]

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    Gender Empowerment and Social Advocacy Project will directly engage, educate and empower 1500 young women and girls (both in and out [...]

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    Young people age 15-24years constitute of 40% of daily HIV infections and over 60% of these infection occur in the world’s poorest [...]

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    The Philippines is a developing country with a vibrant civil society and at least a hundred thousand non-profit groups, NGOs, civil [...]

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    Step Ahead” is a Community Action Project that objectives to tackle the youth apathy in state communities of Sergipe, Pernambuco, Minas [...]

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    Fashion is exciting, colourful, dynamic….and more recently, cheap. The emphasis on cheap, fast fashion often occurs at the expense of both [...]

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    This CAP wanted to tackle poverty with education and sustainable development. Its vision was to improve life quality and the economy [...]

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    Equait is a youth-driven organization founded by Faisal Al Fuhaid and Leanah Al-Awadhi. It started out as a blog and soon [...]

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    The issue the project concerned with is stigma and discrimination of infected and affected by HIV and mobilisation of young people [...]

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    FOFA (Firmes Projetos, Felizes Adolescentes) will tackle the practice of bullying between children and adolescents aged 10-14 years old, focusing on the [...]

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    While corruption scandals boom in Brazilian politics, the country’s youngsters remain silent. Brazilian youth is one of the many groups marginalized [...]

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    Tomorrow’s world belongs to the children of today. Thus, the education we provide them with today will determine the way in [...]

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    Youth End Poverty (YEP) is an entirely youth led project that aims to give young people the skills knowledge and confidence [...]

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    Sparkle project is designed with the aim of raising the awareness of children at the age of 10 to 15 – (in [...]

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    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; a modern equatorial city that is exploding in all directions as more and more people make it their [...]

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    The Africa Youth Human Rights Network is a youth-led development forum for young people between the ages of 16-24 who are [...]

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    Change in Focus strives to create a platform for effective communication between the policy makers and the young people. The CAP [...]

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    In RECONSTRUYE, our goal is to promote sustainable production of built environments. After the earthquake in Chile, we have brought together [...]

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    The vision of this CAP was to create a local network of changemakers from my community to organize seminars and workshops, [...]

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    Global Voices is a non-profit organisation seeking to promote an understanding of and participation in international diplomacy by young Australians. We [...]

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