Archive for the ‘social issues’ Category

The United Nations Youth Association of Australia (UNYA) is proud to launch Perspective, a new journal of youth writing on international affairs and domestic policy. Perspective aims to provide an outlet for the views of young people who have a unique perspective and an intrinsically fresh approach to a range of global issues. Perspective volunteer managers, editors and designers have high hopes: wanting it to become the cornerstone of youth opinion and intellect.

The new issue is jam-packed with some incredible articles that were handpicked from approximately 80 submissions. Each article offers the reader a highly intelligent and inventive approach to some of the most complex problems our world faces today, such as climate change, human rights, war crimes, child prostitution and gender issues.

Individual articles and the whole journal are available to download from the UNYA Australia Site

These are the example articles from the current Winter edition:

Louise McMorland, Youth Librarian, Manly Library

Do you need some facts and figures about Social Inclusion in Australia and how Australia compares to other parts of the world?  In 2001 The European Union (EU) began measuring social exclusion.  The Australian Government now has a Social Inclusion website and published this year is a compendium of data that has been collected for Australia.  This compendium has pulled together information from a range of sources to help in understanding how Australia is faring in relation to social inclusion and who is missing out. Apart from assisting the Australian Social Inclusion Board in its deliberations, it is hoped that the Compendium will generate much interest and discussion about social inclusion and what it means to be excluded in a relatively prosperous country such as Australia.  The full report is at http://www.socialinclusion.gov.au/AusGov/Board/Documents/Compendium.pdf

Louise, Youth Librarian, Manly Library

NSW YOUTH ADVISORY COUNCIL – CYBERBULLYING ONLINE FORUM

The NSW Youth Advisory Council (YAC) is holding an online cyberbullying forum from 9am on 6th October to 5pm on 7 November 2008.
The YAC wants to hear young people’s views on and experiences of cyberbullying. The information collected on the forum will be used to inform advice provided to the Minister for Youth on the issue of cyberbullying. All information collected on the forum will remain anonymous.
All young people who register on the forum will go into the running to win an iPod Nano!
To register for the forum go to www.youth.nsw.gov.au.
For more information please contact:
Executive Officer
Youth Advisory Council
Department of Community Services
Ph: 02 9716 2844
yac@community.nsw.gov.au

$1b needed to fight youth homelessness: report
A new report is calling for a $1 billion funding increase to tackle what it says is the worsening problem of youth homelessness. The inquiry by the National Youth Commission has found the number of young homeless people in Australia has doubled in the last two decades.
It says about 36,000 Australians under the age of 25 do not have stable accommodation.
Read the full report here
http://www.nyc.net.au/files/Australias_Homeless_Youth.pdf
Or from the ABC news website http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/08/2210387.htm
Louise, Youth Librarian, Manly