The European Union Gives Young Africans a Voice
Since coming back from the EU fully funded trip to Brussels, where I spoke on a high-level panel on Women and girls health, I have come...
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Leonardo Párraga
- Jul 16, 2018
- 3 min
The Eternal Missing Peace
Peace is a state of mind many monks want to achieve. Peace is that long-term objective that many countries have been pursuing for years....
Taffan Ako
- Jun 6, 2018
- 2 min
Every Woman is Worthy of Her Rights
I was born in Iraqi Kurdistan in a time of internal conflict and war and I moved to Sweden as a political refugee in 1997. I had the most...
Olaoluwa Abagun
- May 26, 2018
- 2 min
Unapologetic About Championing Our Rights
I can connect the dots of my advocacy career backwards to 13 years ago, when I was selected to join the Nigerian Children’s Parliament....
Offor Hope Jeremiah
- May 26, 2018
- 2 min
Contraceptive Access - My Nigerian Experience
As a young boy growing up in Benin City, Nigeria. I had a best friend who was also my classmate and sat next to me at secondary school....
Offor Hope Jeremiah
- May 26, 2018
- 2 min
Contraceptive Access - My Nigerian Experience
As a young boy growing up in Benin City, Nigeria. I had a best friend who was also my classmate and sat next to me at secondary school....
Lais Rocha Leao
- May 24, 2018
- 2 min
Voice for the Favelas
According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, 11 million people in Brazil live in favelas. These favelas are urban ...
Esther Nakajjigo
- May 20, 2018
- 4 min
LIFT UP HER VOICE Challenge
What it means to be a woman in a world’s largest refugee settlement: "She was escaping fierce fighting in her home town of Bor Medina in...
Tasneem Omar Ava
- Jul 23, 2017
- 5 min
How Do We Pay the Value of Cheap Labour?
I belong to the country that is the second leading exporter for ready-made garments to high fashion brands from the western world. That...
Bushra Dabbagh
- Jul 16, 2017
- 2 min
Education - The Flame of Hope in Emergencies
A resilient seven years into the Syrian crisis, Syrians have been calling for more sustainable solutions to support their livelihoods and...
Nishchal Banskota
- May 30, 2017
- 3 min
Corporate Social Responsibility: Then, Now and...
EDD Young Leader 2017 introduces his upcoming high level panel at the European Development Days 2017 on 7th June. "The basic idea is that...
Odessa Primus
- May 18, 2017
- 5 min
A challenge to our common right to humanity and dignity?
Information illiteracy can be an inequality problem when only a minority of people are active citizens. Even in the most developed part...
Ruba Ahmad
- Mar 3, 2017
- 1 min
"After EDD, I was invited to a panel discussion by the EU’s center for political strategy"
My participation in the EDD’s affected my life in a multitude of ways. For starters, it laid the groundwork for the development of a ...
Shakira Choonara
- Jun 9, 2016
- 3 min
Attending the Historic Sustainable Development Summit at the United Nations Headquarters
At at a number of youth events, anti-apartheid struggle icon Ahmed Kathrada always emphasizes that youth should not take our...
Birwe Habmo
- Jun 7, 2016
- 4 min
Africa, migration and the SDGs: the continent’s journey to development?
Migration is nowadays a worldwide concern due to the fact it has become an issue that should be addressed by all countries. One can...
Catherine Mloza-Banda
- Jun 6, 2016
- 3 min
Agriculture: A Possible Solution to Youth Unemployment?
As we inch towards the upcoming Day of the African Child in June, I could not help but inch back to the popular version of the Agenda...
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