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Raise Your Voice, Share Your Ideas, and Get Involved in Democracy!
August 31, 2009 - 12:25 PM
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Submit your essay on democracy, and get your free ticket to the world’s largest gathering of democracy and human rights activists in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2010!
The World Youth Movement for Democracy (www.wymd.org), a youth network of the World Movement for Democracy (www.wmd.org), is pleased to announce the launch of its Global Essay Contest. Fifteen winners (3 in each region: Asia, Central/Eastern Europe & Eurasia, Middle East & North Africa, Latin America & Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Africa) will be invited to participate in the upcoming 6th Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy in Jakarta, Indonesia, in April 2010.
Questions:
Essays are required to address one or more of the following questions:
What democratic spaces exist for young people in your society? What do you see as democratic values in your society? How do you engage with them?
How can democracy help address your personal and social concerns (poverty, access to education, pandemics, inequality etc.)? How do you and others in your community address these concerns?
Describe and explain how a specific event or instance changed your perception of democracy.
Submissions
Please submit your essay by 15 September 2009 via email attachment as a Word document or a PDF. Please make sure to clearly designate, in the body of your email, your full name, age, gender, physical address, and phone number, to the relevant regional email address listed below. Essays can be submitted in Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish, and the essay must be no more than 2,000 words. Authors must be between 18 and 30 years old.*
Asia: WYMD.ASIA@GMAIL.COM
Central and Eastern Europe & Eurasia: WYMD.EURASIA@GMAIL.COM
Middle East & North Africa: WYMD.MENA@GMAIL.COM
Latin America & Caribbean: WYMD.LAC@GMAIL.COM
Sub-Saharan Africa: WYMD.AFRICA@GMAIL.COM
To submit your essays via fax, please fax: +1.202.378.9889. Please provide your personal details in the fax cover sheet.
Prizes
The 15 regional winners (3 from each region) will be provided with sponsorship to cover travel and other expenses related to their participation in the World Movement for Democracy’s Sixth Assembly in Jakarta, Indonesia, in April 2010.* The Assembly, bringing together over 500 democracy activists, scholars, and practitioners from over 100 countries, will provide an opportunity for the Regional Winners to attend workshops and connect with hundreds of civil society leaders from around the world. The conclusion of the contest is the announcement of two global winners at the Assembly’s closing ceremony.
For further information on the Global Youth Essay Contest, please visit: www.wymd.org.
If you have any specific questions, please contact Cecilia Andersen at: ceciliah@ned.org.
Good luck and we look forward to reading your essays!
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