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Youth leaders at U.N demand action towards Climate Change

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by Kunzang Lhamo September 21, 2019- The U.N Youth Climate Summit for the first time in history took place as part of a weekend of events leading up to the U.N Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit on Monday, September 23. It was a full-day program which brought together young activists and leaders from across the world to include their voice in building paths towards a habitable planet and to demand radical moves to fight climate change. More than 700 mostly young activists attended the first Youth Climate Summit, according to Luis Alfonso de Alba, the U.N. special climate summit envoy. The [Read More]

UN’s Youth Dialogue on May 30 Pairs Miroslav Lajcak and Emmanuel Kelly, Abandoned In A Shoe Box In Iraq

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By Kurt Wheelock On May 30 UN General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak is convening a Youth Dialogue, featuring an Tongan Special Olympian and an up and coming singer who was abandoned as a baby in a shoe box in Iraq. Midday May 30, Lajcak will speak in the UN’s Youth Media Zone, with Leonardo Parraga who founded BogotArt Foundation and Ella Okko of the youth initiative from Finland called “Lennons Peace Ambassador.” Emmanuel Kelly, the boy abandoned in a shoe box in Baghdad, Iraq, disabled or differently abled by the impact of chemical weapons in war, will speak on will [Read More]

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