{"id":2140,"date":"2019-05-03T20:07:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T20:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2019-05-03T20:07:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T20:07:28","slug":"unodc-at-3rd-pan-african-youth-conference-on-african-unity-and-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/2019\/05\/03\/unodc-at-3rd-pan-african-youth-conference-on-african-unity-and-development\/","title":{"rendered":"UNODC at 3rd Pan-African Youth Conference on African Unity and Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Having their say on SDG16, youth tell E4J how to continue empowering them<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>In the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/3rd-pan-african-youth-conference\/\">3<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;Pan-African\nYouth Conference<\/a> held in Banjul in late March, under the theme\n&#8220;The future is now; youth are not too young to lead,&#8221; E4J organized a\n&#8220;Living Library&#8221; inviting young African leaders from Kenya, Zimbabwe\nand Ghana as &#8220;living books,&#8221; sharing their experiences in their\nrespective countries as agents of changes, with a special focus on SDG16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Priscilla\nWepia Ametame, a young Ghanean fourth-year law student and co-founder of the\nAdehye Learning Initiative, reflected on the message she had wanted to pass\nthrough her living book, &#8216;T.M.I. (Too Much Information)&#8217;: &#8220;I suggested\nthat education be made more practical, to ensure that the culture of lawfulness\nis passed through the educational system at all stages. I also highlighted the\nneed to push for its promotion in informal settings like our homes and our\ncommunities, and to use social media as a tool and a means to start\nconversations about these social issues, starting movements calling for\nlawfulness and accountability.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other topical living books presented at this\npopular E4J event included those of Kudzai Mukaratirwa, the young director of\nOMUN Zimbabwe, Edward Reuben Githaiga, co-founder of Youth Voices Kenya, and\nWambui Kahara, UNODC&#8217;s own Regional Youth Advisor for Eastern Africa. Together,\nthey advocated for encouraging youth engagement in Africa and make a\ndifference, inter alia, by strengthening good governance and the rule of law in\ntheir countries &#8211; a call increasingly made by young people across all\ncontinents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Web link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unodc.org\/dohadeclaration\/en\/news\/2019\/04\/having-their-say-on-sdg16--youth-tell-e4j-how-to-continue-empowering-them.html\">https:\/\/www.unodc.org\/dohadeclaration\/en\/news\/2019\/04\/having-their-say-on-sdg16&#8211;youth-tell-e4j-how-to-continue-empowering-them.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having their say on SDG16, youth tell E4J how to continue empowering them In the&nbsp;3rd&nbsp;Pan-African Youth Conference held in Banjul in late March, under the theme &#8220;The future is now; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanyouthcommission.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}