Archive for February, 2009

Our Speech at the CSocD!

Yesterday, on the 7th of February, the Youth Delegates of Romania had a speech which was delivered by my colleague Alexandra Martin in the plenary session of the Commission for Social Development.

This speech represents the common effort of many supporters and partners of the project, from which I would like to mention the Romanian Council for Youth and Oricum Association. Thank you all and I hope you like our intervention at the UN. Here it is:

Madam Chair and honorable Delegates,

 

200 million youth live with less than 1$/ day, of the 130 million illiterate people in the world nearly 60 per cent are young women; youth also make up 44 per cent of the total unemployed population, although they represent 25 per cent of the working age population and I cannot be but grateful to have the opportunity to be here and to present an overview of our ideals, honest thoughts and proposals for joining our efforts in building up a better world.

The progress achieved so far has a main role in our development process, yet the fight is far to be concluded. Taking into account the present global perspectives young people face new challenges and it is our moral obligation to cooperate, especially now when youth are voicing their concerns whilst they keep facing new risks. Continue reading ‘Our Speech at the CSocD!’

Back in business!

It’s been a long time since you’ve read my last post on this blog, but since I’m back in New York, this time for The Commission for Social Development(CSocD) I’m thinking it is time to revitalize my blog and let you all know what the Romania’s Youth Delegates are doing in this time of the year.

After spending 20 hours in the Milan airport because of bad weather, we started working with our Mission and other youth delegates at the draft for the resolution on youth that you will all have the opportunity to see soon. Although not many countries decided to send youth delegates for the CSocD, we are all very enthusiast and restless. The new resolution on youth has brought a lot of interest from all of the member states and the negotiations are quite hard on this matter.

Me and Alexandra have prepared a speech for today’s plenary session regarding youth participation and social integration, and we will post the speech as soon as we’re going to deliver it.

Otherwise, it is very cold in New York, but since we haven’t had the time for anything else besides the CScoD and the work at the Romanian Mission we couldn’t care less for the weather. We do hope that it’s going to be a lot warmer in the weekend.

I’ll try to keep you posted with everything.