Off to the World Youth Conference

I’m off to Leon, Mexico to attend the World Youth Conference with a number of other IPPF delegates. The conference will be held from 23-27th August and this blog will chart IPPF's presence there. Here's a little bit of background...

What’s the Conference All about? 2010 marks the 25th anniversary of International Youth Year and is also the 10 year review of Millennium Development Goals. In line with this, the Mexican government is hosting the World Youth Conference The conference aims to recognize young people as essential partners for achieving the MDGs and to set priorities related to young people for international and domestic policy.

Why are we going? The main goal of IPPF’s participation at the WYC is to ensure that governments, parliamentarians, youth leaders and NGOs recognize young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights as critical priorities for development.

The conference will have considerable impact and influence. As such, IPPF believes it is important for a large number of progressive young people to participate at the conference to ensure the outcomes reflect rights-based perspectives on young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender and sexuality.

For more information about the conference visit http://www.youth2010.org/ (the website is in English, Spanish and French)

Over the weekend I'll let you know what we've got planned for the week ahead...