Channel 5 news is helping UNICEF in its search for young people to represent the UK and speak out on global issues at this year's Junior 8 (J8) Summit. Organised by UNICEF, the J8 is a young people's version of the G8 which will take place in Italy this July.
On Friday 20 March, Channel 5 ran a report about the J8 in its 5pm news bulletin, which encouraged young people to enter UNICEF’s J8 competition to win a place at the Summit.
To read the full news item and to find out how you can apply for this year's J8 competition, visit the Youth voice website.
Students call for a new climate change policy
More than 12,000 students from 50 states in America travelled across the United States for the second Power Shift conference, a massive youth discussion on confronting climate change.
The devoted students aimed to take on Capitol Hill, Washington DC by urging for a greener economy and for direct action to be taken.
To read the full news item and to find out more on climate change, visit the Youth voice website.
Young fundraising stars
How far will you go to do your bit for children? What inventive ways will you find to help support children worldwide?
You can get involved by campaigning, spreading the word and raising money.
To find out about the fundraising stars and how you can get involved, visit the
Youth Voice website.
More children victims of the conflict in Sri Lanka
With a growing number of children being recruited by the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) and numbers of children being killed or injured in fighting, UNICEF expressed its concerns for children, as Sri Lanka’s conflict enters a new stage.
“We have clear signs that the LTTE has increased recruitment of civilians and that children as young as 14 years old are now being targeted,” said Mr Philippe Duamelle, UNICEF’s Representative in Sri Lanka. “These children are facing immediate danger and their lives are at great risk. Their recruitment is awful.”
To find out more about child soldiers and to read the full news story, visit the Youth Voice website.
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UNICEF Ambassadors Unite Against AIDS
UNICEF's celebrity ambassadors get together to draw attention to the fact that children have been the missing face of
HIV/AIDS for too long.
The BORN FREE Campaign:
Mother-to-baby transmission of HIV can be prevented. You can help babies be Born Free From HIV. Visit the Youth
Voice website to see how you can lend a helping hand.
Giant stork visits Downing Street
Tourists and passers-by were taken aback when UNICEF's giant stork made a 'special delivery' to Alistair Darling,
Chancellor of the Exchequer, at Number 11 Downing Street.
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Youth Voice Roadshow - Milton Keynes
In November 2008 Youth Voice took to the roads again for the annual roadshows. We came to Milton Keynes and took part in many activities. Take a look at some of our pictures of the event!
In December 2008 Youth Voice took to the roads again, for the annual roadshows. We came to Norwich and took part in many activities. Take a look at some of our pictures of the event!
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Thank you for the friendship and for your support in helping increase the effort to EDUCATE our youth of the dangers of drugs and violence. Our future generation depends on the youth of today. Alcohol and Drugs are plaguing our society and we need to attack it head on where it is digging its roots; with our youth in our schools. Knowledge and Truth are the key to help them stay clean. They deserve the TRUTH about all of the drugs they will incounter. They are simply too smart to accept the old 'Just Say NO' adage. Todays teens want to KNOW for themselves, and a rebellious society we have created. They will seek the truth themselves and we must educate them with it. That's what they respect; That's what they deserve! A NEW D.A.R.E. REQUIRES A NEW APPROACH! Please help spread the word and tell your friends about D.A.R.E. Feel free to visit D.A.R.E. online at www. dare. com for more info on starting a D.A.R.E. program in your area and/or to show your support. Peace :-)
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Hiya, Do you fancy coming down to our gig at the Unicorn in Kentish Town on Thursday? It's free entry, cheap drinks and it'll be our last gig of the year?
Let us know if you wanna come coz we're giving out some free CDs and we need to know how many to print.
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I hope you are having a beautiful day!!! We are just about to take the first step into the unknown on the next part of our incredible journey. Our goal is to promote children to think for themselves and to give them strength, support, self-confidence and love so that they can grow up into adulthood without fear, doubt and with the belief that they can achieve anything and that there is nothing out of their reach. We want to give them the tools to bring those things to life, the knowing that they can do anything they set their minds too, absolutely anything. We need to allow children to be who they are without imposing our own beliefs onto them.
When we unleash our own creativity, our own passion, free from external sources, that is when we can to begin to find our own original ideas that could create the possibility of a better world. This project will be in the hands of children and it will be them that will create that possibility.
There is nothing more amazing as a child than to have encouragement to go beyond your boundaries and create something unexpected, we want to give children the ability to feel the unexpected but at their own hands, in their control, without doubt and with complete freedom. We will go on that journey with them through our photography and film to bring fun and joy into their hearts to show them what passion and a love of life can truly feel like.
Please subscribe to our site www. theopenmind. org/subscribe to help raise awareness and to enable us to take this journey to as many children in the world as possible. Xxxx Anne & Lisa
Hey :) I was just wondering if you know when they're looking for youth officers again? And also WHERE CAN I GET A HOODIE! I think it's a really good idea to wear a charity rather than a fashion logo :) xx
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