Here are some recently uploaded videos from the Thai Youth Preparation Forum. Chet, Duan and Moh – youth activists from three different regions of Thailand – shared their thoughts on issues ranging from alternative education, the environment and people’s participation in ASEAN. Feel free to comment on these videos on our YouTube page… Chet – [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Interviews from the Thai Youth Preparation Forum
Posted: September 24, 2009 by bennetthaynes in ASEAN Youth Movement, Our WordsTags: Events, Thailand
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Advancing a Peoples’ ASEAN: Continuing Dialogue Call for Civil Society’s Participation In the 2nd ASEAN Peoples’ Forum / 5th ASEAN Civil Society Conference 18-20 October 2009 Cha-am, Phetchaburi Province, Thailand
From Earthrights International: Today, ERI released two major reports which link energy giants Total and Chevron to serious human rights abuses in Burma, including showing how revenues from the companies’ infamous Yadana gas project are helping to prop up the country’s brutal military regime. The first report, Total Impact, provides the most comprehensive coverage to [...]
Intyerfaith Youth Coalition on AIDS – Burma
Posted: September 13, 2009 by bennetthaynes in ASEAN Youth MovementTags: Burma
ASEAN Youth Movement participant in the news… DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Muslim Community Leaders Join AIDS Fight By Ranjita Biswas KOLKATA, India, Sep 9 (IPS) – Muslim religious leaders may seem too conservative to promote the message of safe sex to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic. But that image seems to be changing. Thanks to community-based organisations and young [...]
Thai Youth Preparation Forum for APF 2009
Posted: September 12, 2009 by nettingtvs in ASEAN Youth Movement, Our WordsTags: Thailand
How do we engage with ASEAN? Is it only an economic space for government trade representatives? Can we propose alternatives to large-scale development and “free” trade? Or is youth participation just another marketing tool? How can we hold ASEAN accountable? These are important questions for many young Thai activists and organizers, but certainly difficult to [...]
Connecting to Vietnam
Posted: September 11, 2009 by bennetthaynes in ASEAN Youth MovementTags: Vietnam
Thanks to Sarah Domingo at DAWN for forwarding this along, from the Vietnam Youth and Sustainable Development Forum – Thân gửi các nhà hoạt động trẻ tuổi và các bạn Diễn đàn các quốc gia Đông Nam Á (APF) trận trọng giới thiệu sự kiện Diễn đàn giới trẻ Đông Nam Á!!! Sự kiện sẽ [...]
Youth Speak Out – Essay Contest, Deadline Oct. 2
Posted: September 11, 2009 by bennetthaynes in OpportunitiesTags: Youth and Democracy
From the World Youth Movement for Democracy: Youth Speak Out: Engaging in Democracy and Grasping Opportunity Raise Your Voice, Share Your Ideas, and Get Involved in Democracy! Submit your essay on democracy, and get your free ticket to the world’s largest gathering of democracy and human rights activists in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2010! The World [...]
Here’s a recent piece of writing from our friend Monorum in Cambodia – — The issue most are important for me is youth in materialism, modernization, climate change, peace, human rights, trafficking, dam construction in Mekong region (upstream and downstream), boundary, unemployment, global crisis, local youth education, human resource and youth to addicted to opium…etc. [...]
Thai Youth Forum เวทีเยาวชนไทย
Posted: September 8, 2009 by bennetthaynes in ASEAN Youth MovementTags: Events
More on this past weekends’ event to follow…
Civil society engagement with ASEAN is heading in a new direction. The APF Youth Media Team attended yesterday’s Core Group Meeting held at Focus on the Global South, which brought together representatives from organizations around Southeast Asia, including Forum-Asia, SEACA, TERRA, People’s Empowerment Foundation (P-EMP), Sustainable Agriculture Foundation Thailand and a number of other organizations. [...]
