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In September 2015, world leaders from all 193 United Nations (UN) Member States committed to 17 Global Goals to achieve 3 extraordinary things in the next 15 years: End extreme poverty; Fight inequality & injustice; Fix climate change. The Global...

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We are hiring an External Relations Manager who will be entrusted mainly with the task of managing relationships with WOSM’s key stakeholders. They include UN agencies and global organisations delivering non-formal education for young people...

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The Conference of Parties (COP), an annual conference of all countries that want to take action and address climate change, continues this week in Paris with further meetings and discussions. The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) has...

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Today, on International Volunteer Day, six volunteers share about their passion to serve and to nurture the growth of young people through Scouting. Maina Kiranga, Kenya 1. How long have you been volunteering? I started my Scouting journey at Fahari...

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Scouts and Guides contributing to refugee support activities in their local communities in Europe: What’s next after the #RefugeeResponseSeminar During the last weekend in November, Guides and Scouts from 27 countries gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark...

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Rafe Lucado, 2nd. Vice-Chairman of the Interamerican Scout Committee; Ralf Dillmann, Director of the Adults in Scouting and Raul Sanchez Vaca, Regional Director World Scout Bureau Interamerican Region, met Tuesday December 1st at the Regional Office...

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The Conference of Youth (COY) and the Conference of Parties (COP) is currently taking place in Paris this week. Since 2009, World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) has been actively participating in the conferences on climate change issues...

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The Conference of Youth (COY) and the Conference of Parties (COP) will be taking place from 26 November to 11 December, in Paris. Happening for the 11th year, COY is a conference for young people involved in climate change issues. COY is held just...

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20 November marks the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, in 1959, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in 1989. 

Scouting has always been taking responsibility to provide children...

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13 November 2015, Nairobi, Kenya: The 11th Africa-Europe Training Course for Youth Organizations is taking place in Nairobi, Kenya in the framework of the 7th African University on youth and Development. The course is organized in co-operation with...

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11 November 2015, Nairobi, Kenya: The Network of International Youth Organizations in Africa (NIYOA) is conducting a Training of Trainers Course on Global Education in the framework of the 7th African University on Youth and Development, that is...

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10 November 2015, Nairobi, Kenya: The 7th African University on Youth and Development kicked-off on 9th November at the Sportsview Hotel Kasarani in Nairobi Kenya. The week long event brings together over 100 young people form Africa and Europe for...

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Let's do a quick review of our membership numbers. We are currently at 40 million members. Our Vision 2023 is to increase our membership to 100 million. How do we make this happen? Firstly, we must maintain our membership figures and understand...

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As the main highlight of the 8th APR Scout Youth Forum was the election of new batch of the Young Adult Members Group (YAMG) for the period of 2015-2018. Youth forum participants elected six representatives of the YAMG: Mr. Mori CHENG Chi-Kin (Hong...

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Last August, the 7th Africa Scout Youth Forum elected six new Youth Advisors to represent the voice of African Scouts – Pamela Akplogan Monbolade Urchelle (Benin), Solomon Idopise Etim (Nigeria), Christa Anita Sophie Marie (Seychelles), Jean Cedric...

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