Welcome!
You can make a difference. Individual actions, like drops of water, are creating ripple effects around the world. At the Ignite Change Now! Global Youth Assembly (GYA) 2011, hundreds of youth and young professionals from all backgrounds will unite to turn ripples into waves as they explore the theme OUR WORLD. OUR WATER.
Be there July 27 - 30, 2011 (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada). Together, we will Ignite Change Now!
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GYA 2011 Report – online now!
The final report from the GYA is now available online. Check it out for a summary of the event as well as our ideas about moving forward and making the GYA the most inspiring, accessible and transformative event that Edmonton has to offer. Planning for GYA 2013 starts now! If you have questions, comments, or [...]
View Pictures at the 2011 GYA!
See pictures of the proceedings of the 2011 Global Youth Assembly here and at our flickr gallery!
Help to Frame the Agenda: GYA 2013 Health and Human Rights
Thank you to all of you that made the GYA in 2011 a great success! I’m really excited to announce that in 2013, to build on and expand on the discussions of water, the GYA is going to focus on looking at health and human rights. One of the things that stood out in our [...]
Day 2 and 3 on-site reporting at the GYA
Produced by a group of summer school film studies students from Jasper Place High School. These interviews were shot over the course of day 2 and 3 of the GYA and explored the theme, Our World, Our Water.
Jasper Place HS Youth Share their Reports of GYA2011
The John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights would like to extend a huge thank you to the team from Jasper Place High School for their reporting talents at the GYA this year! Check out their first day of reporting here: Thanks also to Stylebox Media and the School of Business at the University [...]
