At the Commonwealth Women’s Leader’s Summit, the Secretary- General of the Commonwealth Rt. Hon. Patricia Scotland QC, called for intergenerational partnership to empower women. Following this meeting, myself and a group of inspirational young women from across the Commonwealth, decided that we wanted to help empower women by creating a Mentorship Programme for Women across

For a week this June I plunged into the unfamiliar world of truly international deal making and intrigue. This, sadly, was not up front among the Heads of State and Government at the G20 in Hamburg, but at the Y20 in Berlin, which was hosted a month earlier to compile the worldwide perspective of young

Imagine university life without international students; no more foreign crushes, fewer accents to make fun of, a decline in offers of suspicious local alcohols, culminating, its fair to say, in a void once occupied by life-long friends. A deeply toxic, and ugly, culture of isolationism and anti-intellectualism is threatening these things and more, every day

Once again, the BYC had a very successful COMEM, GA. Although Ewan was new to the system, he was a great asset to the BYC and supported me so much during the election procedure. I am sure that he will do a fantastic job replacing me as the “Official Delegate” commencing September. We started our COMEM by joining

The conference “EYE CON” (Empowering youth for employment) was organised as a part of the project “Empowering Youth for Employment” implemented by the National Youth Council of Macedonia (NYCM) and supported by the British Embassy in Skopje. The aim of the conference was to provide space for sharing practices and innovative model for increasing the

In preparation for the conference we met in Belfast to discuss the previous EUYC which was held in Slovakia, and the actions to take from the recommendations. Following this and using the report as a guide we prepared an action plan on how we would achieve the recommendations that came out of the Kosice conference.

  Preparation Having over packed, I set off to the airport with my purple passport and EHIC in hand. Not knowing what to expect (or what to expect in terms of weather) I had varied expectations. Prior to departure, we had undertaken many consultations across the UK. Together as UK Young Ambassador’s (UKYA) we met

After flying form Belfast-Brussels, Brussels-Budapest, then sitting on a coach for three hours, I finally arrived in Kosice somewhere around 2am on Monday morning. As you can imagine I swiftly got into bed and fell asleep. On the Monday I had some time in the morning (while the other delegates arrived) to explore Slovakia’s beautiful

After the ruling of the High Court yesterday stating that the Prime Minister does not have the right to trigger the Article 50 process without getting the backing of Parliament, the media and the public from both the Leave and the Remain campaigns have reignited the feud, with hateful and worrying comments being posted on

Interested in youth participation? Want to know more about our international work? Want to get involved? Join us at a reception on Monday, 10th of July in the iconic Grand Saloon at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane to Celebrate Our European Youth Voice.  Over the last year we have been working on research, consultations and meeting