The International Youth Coalition Attends the UN Forum on Youth

By Mark K. | June 10, 2014

The International Youth Coalition (IYc) attended the UN Economic and Social Council Forum on Youth on the 2nd and 3rd of June. The two day forum brought youth delegates and representatives from member states around the world to the UN. The intent of the forum was to include young people in the discussion addressing the challenges we currently face and to consider the best ways to proceed forward. It became evident by the close of the first day that many youth attendees were not interested in finding solutions to pressing issues that stall the advancement of young people. They wanted to advance ideology that included an international education standard, abortion without the need for any parental notification, LGBT rights, an “Occupy Wall Street” revival, and some of the loudest applause followed calls for the downfall of capitalism due to the inequality they claimed it produces.

For more information on the forum and the IYc’s involvement, please review the following articles currently posted on the IYc website:

The World We Want is a World that Wants Us: IYc Attends the United Nations Youth Forum (Part 1)

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Mark Kowalewski

The IYc is currently attending the UN’s “Forum on Youth”, and we all agreed it got off to a fantastic start. During the opening session, we were very pleased to hear the slogan for youth that was repeated a few times during the introduction: “The world we want is a world that wants us!”

For more, click here.

 

The Myth of Secularized Medicine: IYc Attends the United Nations Youth Forum (Part 2)

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Karl Hetzke

During our visit to the UN this week, IYc had the chance to participate in a discussion on ECOSOC’s post-2015 development goals related to youth health. The discussion was intended to give feedback to the UN representatives about the goals themselves, and as a forum for non-governmental organizations, like IYc, to share ideas about how private activists can contribute to reaching the health goals ECOSOC set for the world’s youth.

For more, click here.

 

In the End, the Truth is Incontrovertible: IYc Attends the United Nations Youth Forum (Part 3)

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Ann Henebery

After attending the U.N. Youth Forum in New York this past week, I came to a very disconcerting conclusion.  I heard representative after representative call for basic human rights, but then subsequently ignore the truth that unborn children are murdered when young mothers are given access to free, legal abortions.  In fact, not only did they maintain an astounding double standard — calling for their own right to life and ignoring the same right that every unborn child maintains — but several representatives verbally attacked religious and traditional views as an “excuse” for opposing their secular progressive stances.

For more, click here.

 

Trying to be Ernesto: IYc Attends the United Nations Youth Forum (Conclusion)

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Mark Kowalewski

Now that the UN Youth Forum has concluded, it is fair to state that the IYc learned a great deal about the inner workings of the UN, however we departed New York City fully aware that much work needs to be done in order to save our generation from doom.

For more, click here.

 

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