In the last few weeks, millions of young Nigerians at home and abroad joined the #EndSARS protests to demand an end to police brutality, human rights abuses, extrajudicial killings, and the excessive use of force…
By Leonardo Párraga, Executive Director of BogotArt, UNOY member in Colombia (follow up from the ‘Las Vidas Jóvenes Importan’ article) Some famous metal bands like Metallica have positioned themselves in the scene with songs like fight…
UNOY Peacebuilders are deeply concerned about the current military escalation in the South Caucasus region around the unresolved Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The new wave of violence began early morning on September 27, with shelling surrounding towns…
The theme of this year’s International Peace Day was ‘Shaping Peace Together’, which is precisely what the United Network of Young Peacebuilders is all about. We’ve captured some of the incredible initiatives that UNOY Peacebuilders across…
By Leonardo Párraga, Executive Director of BogotArt, UNOY member in Colombia (*Spanish version below) Las vidas jóvenes importan. Youth lives matter. Las vidas jóvenes importan. I should repeat this phrase another 30 times and yet,…
Written by the UNOY African Youth Advocacy Team (A-YAT) The African Union (AU) vowed to ‘Silence the Guns’ of armed conflict by the year 2020. Yet here we are and the guns remain deafening. Why…
Written by Khaled Emam, Human Rights Lawyer and Executive Manager of Justice Call for Rights and Development (Egypt), GPPAC YPS Working Group Member, inspired by an online discussion organised by UNOY Peacebuilders The new UN…
Written by Lucky Chinwike and Rafiu Adeniran Lawal, Leading Directors of Building Blocks for Peace Foundation, UNOY member It was four months after he bagged his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. He was 22. Alhaji Sammani Zango,…
Haiti has faced a long history of violence due to the presence of gangs. Unfortunately, a young peacebuilder from our network is one of the victims of the most recent episode of violence. On 5…
This week, on 27th April 2020, under the presidency of the Dominican Republic, the United Nations Security Council held an open video conference on Youth, Peace and Security. The debate builds on the landmark resolution…
Written by Ali Altiok, independent researcher on youth and peacebuilding & co-author of “We Are Here: an integrated approach to youth-inclusive peace processes” Covid-19 pandemic is a new risk to human society. In the past…
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