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Scouts Australia has reinforced their commitment to fight child abuse and welcomed a recent decision by their Federal Government to establish a national Royal Commission into institutional responses to instances and allegations of child abuse in...
Scouting’s non-formal educational programmes form a strong basis for its contribution to preventing violence among youth.
Luc Panissod, Secretary General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) and Constance Thomas, Director of the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...
On 25 October 2012, after Hurricane Sandy hit Haiti, the Emergency Units of Scouts d’Haïti got mobilised in response to the natural disaster. In the town of Damien, north of Port au Prince, hundreds of temporary houses and shelters have been flooded...
Six Regional Office Coordinators met in Geneva along with their Messengers of Peace (MoP) colleagues at the World Scout Bureau Central Office from 9 to 11 October to gather updates from the first year of implementing various MoP initiatives and to...
The Chairman of the ASEAN Scout Association for Regional Cooperation (ASARC) Dato’ Dr. Shahrum bin Osman from Malaysia visited the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta on 4th September to register ASARC as an accredited member of ASEAN. ASARC was established...
“Scouts Promoting Non-Violence among the Youth” is a Peace project being implemented by the Scouts of Georgia in the framework of the Messengers of Peace Programme. The project is targeting youth aged 13-16 years old, to help raise awareness and...
The growth of Scouting in Afghanistan is increasingly seen as more training of adult leaders and support continue. In the current collaboration of WOSM/Asia-Pacific with PARSA, 52 participants, including 6 female members are taking part in the 3rd...
On April 28, 2012 at St. Sophia Square of the capital of Ukraine - Kyiv - the grand opening of All-Ukrainian Centenary Scout Forum took place. The Forum is organized by AYPO "National Organization of the Scouts of Ukraine" (NOSU) under the support of...
Scouts joined in the massive rescue and relief operations after the deadly typhoon Washi ravaged northern Mindanao, a southern island in the Philippines, particularly Cagayan De Oro and Iligan cities early morning of 17th December 2011, sweeping away...
The environment is our playground and we are sharing with the tens of thousands of international non-governmental and governmental delegates at the event how scouting has always cared for the planet, not because we had to, but rather, simply that we...
Rarely before has the Scout motto "Be prepared" been so timely. Just one week after the JOTA-JOTI, a 7.2 earthquake struck Eastern Turkey. It was the most powerful earthquake to hit the country in ten years. One of the themes of this year's JOTA-JOTI...
The thirteenth of October is UN International Day for Disaster Reduction. Its theme for this year is “Making Children and Young People Partners for Disaster Risk Reduction”. From its inception, Scouting around the world has engaged itself in helping...
2011 will mark the celebration of the fourth-year of Alliance Jointly with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Clean Up the World (CUW) and the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). The campaign runs for a calendar year and...
After several days of suspense we finally have the results of the JOTA JOTI logo competition in which almost 120 scouts from all over the world partipated. The theme for this year's event is "Peace, Environment and Natural Disasters" and the proposed...