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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...
Participants of the 7th Asia-Pacific Regional Scout Youth Forum elected six young leaders from different National Scout Organizations in the Asia-Pacific forming the new Young Adult Members Group (YAMG) for the term 2012-2015. They are Pangkaj...
The 7th Asia-Pacific Regional Scout Youth Forum is now going on from 17th to 21st November 2012 at BRAC Centre for Development and Management, in Savar, Bangladesh. The regional youth forum provides an opportunity for young people to discuss and...
(Geneva/ERO) – An update on progress made and challenges encountered by the five thematic Working Groups and the three supporting Core Groups was a major point on the agenda of the recent meeting of the European Scout Committee at Pax Lodge, the...
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)...
The 14th World Scout Moot will take place in Canada from 8 to 18 August 2013. Preparations are underway and the hosts, Association Scouts du Canada, and its Moot organising team are gearing up in several ways to ensure that the event will be a grand...
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...
According to some analysts, the Android platform currently leads the mobile phone market, accounting for approximately 60 percent of all smartphone shipments in the first half of 2012. Over half a million actual users are setting up a new Android...
The 24th APR Scout Conference Organization Committee (COC) held its 5th Preparatory Meeting at the National Headquarters in Dhaka on 14th October 2012. The COC Chairman and Vice President of Bangladesh Scouts Mr Habibul Alam welcomed the members of...
Twenty two members of staff from the World Scout Bureau - Central Office and the 6 Regions -joined by João Armando and Mari Nakano, members of the World Scout Committee supporting Educational Methods, met in Thailand from 12 to 16 September to...
More than 40 key leaders of Cambodia Scouts from different parts of the country are currently attending the four-day National Workshop on Building Management Capabilities, at the Council of Ministers complex, heart of Phnom Penh from 25-28 September...
On 21 September 2012 Messengers of Peace ran a fun online activity to get 10,000 Scouts to “like” our Peace Challenge. Please help us by “liking” our International Peace Day Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ScoutChallenge2012MessengersofPeace...
Scouts from over thirty countries gathered at the Bungere Scout camp in Gitega, Burundi from 28th July to 5th August 2012 for the 6th Africa Scout Jamboree. 29 African countries and 6 European countries (Belgium, Denmark, France, Finland, Italy and...
Located within the border region of Ireland, between Cavan, Fermanagh and Monaghan, the “Castle Saunderson International Scout Centre” will encourage greater levels of interaction amongst young people from different religious, ethnic and cultural...
The International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21st September each year. In the context of the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development that took place in June this year, the UN General Assembly declared that the...