Happy International Youth Day!!

Congratulations to YOU(th)! Today is International Youth Day and the End of International Year of Youth – Let’s Celebrate What YOUTH Have Achieved Together!!! 

 
With all your energy and determination – Asia Pacific YOUTH have worked together to do amazing things for human rights!

Do you want to know what YOUth have achieved during International Year of YOUTH?

Over 10,000 Young People in 26 Countries in Asia Pacific Involved in APYN

• More than 2,000 new friends signed up to join APYN
• Two new language groups on Facebook – Hindi and Chinese

8,000++ Actions for Human Rights

Meet on MDGs in the Philippines

• YOU took action on a range of human rights issues: human rights & poverty, stop violence against women, unlawful detention, abolish the death penalty, and you stood in solidarity with friends in the Middle East and North Africa in early 2011…and more!
• More than 142 young people responded to the MDGs Youth Campaign Team’s call to facilitate ‘Meet on MDGs’. Each facilitator hosted a meet with five (or more) friends to answer five simple yet important questions on the links between human rights and MDGs. Click here to check out their report.
• More than 800 young people responded to the Burma Youth Campaign Team’s call for the Three Freedoms of Expression, Association, and Assembly for Burma. Add your name now to make it 1,000!

Don’t let it stop – let’s keep the actions going!

YOUth are not just kids – YOUth are Agents of Change! So let’s celebrate this big day by take action –  Join young people all over Asia Pacific to answer one question: WHAT DOES LIVING IN DIGNITY MEAN TO YOU(th)?