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, 20183 min read
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, 20182 min read
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, 20182 min read
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, 20182 min read
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, 20182 min read
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, 20182 min read
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, 20184 min read
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, 20175 min read
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, 20172 min read
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, 20173 min read
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, 20175 min read
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, 20171 min read
"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, 20163 min read
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, 20164 min read
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, 20163 min read
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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