Global Young Greens

Nassima Guettal (Algeria) Rose Wachuka (Kenya ) Estacio Bernardo Abreu (Venezuela ) Jaime Carrero Andres (Colombia ) Julia Duppré (Brazil ) Tanya Gutmanis (Canada) Alex Surace (Australia) Amy Tyler (Australia) Robyn Lewis ( Australia) Yangki Suara (Indonesia) Bart Dhondt (Belgium ) Michaela Prassl ( Austria ) Sarah Benke ( Germany ) Teo Abaishvili (Georgia)

The International Green Youth ( engl: Global Young Greens, in short: GYG ) is a global network of green youth organizations. They are committed to environmental sustainability, social justice, grassroots democracy and peace. The GYG is a joint project of several dozens of organizations and several hundred individuals, including the Federation of Young European Greens, Asia Pacific Young Greens Network, Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe Young Volunteers for the Environment and the Heinrich Böll Foundation. She is a Belgian law under -standing non-profit organization.

Educational Sites is any person who defined themselves as " green " and is not older than 35 years, invited. For the coordination of one's work is a 14 -member so-called steering committee, so a steering committee responsible, which is on the global conventions, to be held every three years at the latest, was elected. At these meetings, each participant / each participant is entitled to vote, but not more than four per continental federation.

History

Prehistory

The first unofficial meeting of young Grüner from around the world was held in 2001 in Sydney just before the Global Greens Conference. Inspired by this meeting began members of the Federation of Young European Greens ( FYEG ), the Campus Greens USA and some other green groups, and individuals in 2005 so as to make plans for an initial conference green youth organizations through e -mail correspondence. The following year, two members of the Federation of Young European Greens began in the Brussels office of FYEG with the preparation of the plan, which led to their first conference in January 2007 for the constitution of the GYG.

Founded at the 1st Congress

The first official congress of the Global Young Greens Founding Congress was at the same time and place from 16 to 20 January 2007 in Nairobi instead. He was attended by 156 persons, of which 133 voted. According to the organizers, about 89 of the participants came from Africa ( including 50 on Kenya), 5 from America, 31 from Asia- Pacific and 26 from Europe. Despite all the efforts of the organizers to encourage participants to take part, made ​​male visitors about two-thirds of the participants.

Participants came among others from New Zealand, Germany, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Kyrgyzstan, Tunisia, Kazakhstan, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, South Korea, Canada, France, Spain, Japan, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Benin, Andorra, Czech Republic, Italy, Nepal, Cyprus and Kenya.

At this congress, the organizational structure was agreed and selected the first, consisting of 14 members, steering committee.

The first elected steering committee consisted of the following members of the following continents:

  • Africa: Marie Madeline Boni (Benin), Eric Dombou (Cameroon ) Rim Nour (Tunisia ), Douglas Arege (Kenya )
  • North and South America: Andrea Horan ( Canada ) Juan Manuel Zorraquín (Argentina )
  • Asia - Pacific: Raju Pandit Chhetri (Nepal ) Elena Zakirova ( Kyrgyzstan ) Murtaza Mir Ghulam (Pakistan ) Caroline Ayling (Australia)
  • Europe: Janna Schönfeld ( Germany ) Ognyan Kovachev (Bulgaria ) Sarah Trichet Allaire (France ) Andreas Birnstingl ( Austria )

2nd Congress

It was in April 2008 another unofficial two-day meeting in São Paulo to prepare for the next Congress of the GYG place, at which over 60 young people attended.

This was followed from 08 to 13 August 2010, the second congress (in Berlin ); a meeting, which was attended by over 100 delegates from 48 nations. It was, among other things, the current steering committee selected (see information box).

3rd Congress

The third Congress of the Global Young Greens took place in late March 2012 in Dakar, Senegal.

Principle

Membership is open to any person under 36 free, the " green " identifies with the terminology. This refers to environmental sustainability, social justice, grassroots democracy and peace.

The twelve principles of the Global Young Greens are recorded in the Charter of the Global Greens:

  • Protection and restoration of the environment and respect for animals
  • Sustainable and equitable development
  • Social justice
  • Global and participatory democracy ( grassroots )
  • Peaceful resolution of conflicts; Arms control; disarmament
  • Gender equality
  • Intergenerational equity; Strengthening of children's rights
  • Exemption from any form of discrimination
  • Strengthening of marginalized and disadvantaged people
  • The just and fair globalization
  • Freedom of the individual on the basis of universal human rights
  • Right to self-determination of indigenous peoples
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