The International Youth Council: Sustain US needs you!

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Sustain US needs you!

SustainUS High School Delegates to UN Commission on Sustainable Development

As the U.S. Youth Network for Sustainable Development, SustainUS would like to invite high school students to join our delegation to the 17th Session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-17). The policy session will take place from May 4 to May 15, 2009 at the UN Headquarters in New York, and the Commission will focus on agriculture, rural development, land, drought, desertification, and Africa. Through the Agents of Change Program, delegates will have the opportunity to participate in official UN meetings, lobby government representatives for the causes they believe in, work with youth from around the world, draft policy statements, and present them on the floor of the UN!

SustainUS welcomes all interested youth to apply, and the attached application is due on Friday, March 6. The application and more information can be found on the SustainUS website:

http://www.sustainus.org/

Julia Wong
julia.wong@sustainus.org
High School Outreach Coordinator
SustainUS
http://www.sustainus.org/

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IYC Mission

The International Youth Council (IYC) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization founded at the UN Youth Assembly in 2007 dedicated to giving young people across the world both collective voice and a mechanism to support global sustainable development.

Our mission is to bring together and support young leaders from around the world in pursuit of partnership, progress, and the Millennium Development Goals. We seek to empower the next generation of leaders by providing them with the training, resources, and opportunities they need to succeed. We also advocate for an official body representative of the youth within the United Nations power structure.

We hope to inspire the youth of the world to act and give them the tools to make a difference.