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IUSY Statement on the Malaysian elections

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IUSY celebrates the victory of the Democratic Action Party (DAP) as their coalition Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope) overwhelmingly won the government in their recent elections. Their coalition’s victory in Malaysia saw the rejection of Barisan Nasional’s 61-year authoritarian rule.

The victory of DAP with Pakatan Harapan is a long struggle in a terrain marred by gerrymandering, state repression and harassment. But DAP and Pakatan Harapan soldiered on and ran on a campaign of hope. Their campaign, powered by people of different genders, ages and ethnic groups, saw a surge of people going out to the polls to reject the era of corruption by Prime Minister Najib Razak.

The victory of the people of Malaysia is a bright spark in the region that could inspire more progressive parties in Asia to seize power in their elections. The work ahead for DAP in Pakatan Harapan will be challenging as they prosecute those involved in the 1MDB scandal and probe all anomalies under the previous regime. May this electoral victory in Malaysia open up a new era built on justice, freedom and solidarity in Asia.  

IUSY Statement about the political situation in Armenia

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After weeks of non-violent protests in Armenia, started from criticism of the growing poverty, unemployment and corrupt ruling elite that were generated during Serzh Sargsyan’s 10-year term as President who had manipulated the constitution to cling to power, the National Assembly elected the opposition leader, Nikol Pashinyan, as the new prime minister of the country.

As IUSY we celebrate with the people of Armenia their peaceful victory and important change, achieved mainly by the mobilization of young people who were the engine of the resolution and that showed the hope of building a democratic, just and peaceful society in the Black Sea Area country.

IUSY BSAC Leadership Conference Statement 2018, Kiev, Ukraine

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IUSY represents a powerful and effective platform for promoting young socialists and social-democrats and the values we share;

Remaining committed to the common values of human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality and rule of law;

Reiterating aspirations of all participants at the Black Sea Area Cooperation Leadership Conference, to live in a democratic society that offers for youngsters opportunities for development and affirmation;

Believing that promoting democracy, stability and sustainable development is the best way for ensuring peace and security in all BSAC countries.

BSAC member organizations stand for/with/in:

–   peaceful and constructive approaches for the resolution of the frozen conflicts in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova;

  • a peaceful political resolution of the armed conflict in the East of Ukraine and restoration of territorial integrity of Ukraine with the vast involvement of all civilians living in the region;
  • stabilization of the region through the democratic resolution of the Kurdish question;
  • solidarity with the Armenian people in these important times and in support in their just struggle for human rights, democracy, and rule of law;
  • solidarity and support for Russian youth left activists who were taking part in a protest against the re-election of Vladimir Putin, and were arrested in the process;
  • Bulgarian young socialists and social-democrats in their struggle against the right-wing government which let Bulgaria to be the most corrupted and the poorest country in the European Union;
  • Ukrainian people fighting against oligarchic regime and radical nationalistic movements.

IUSY BSAC organizations are working for:

  • Ensuring and creating opportunities for all women and young girls to participate in politics, economics and other fields in order to maintain democracy;
  • Providing equal opportunities and rights to medical care, education, decent working conditions for everyone to ensure comprehensive solution of the problems;
  • Offering space for young people to have a meaningful dialogue on the peaceful transformation of the conflicts in the region

We call upon the international community to show support in the establishment of peace within the region.

We call for all youth to resist injustice and to join our struggle in creating social democratic society!!!

 

Statement in relation to the electoral situation in Paraguay

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Elections in Paraguay: we ask to recount the votes
LEE EL COMUNICADO EN ESPAÑOL

From the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) we note with concern the accusations of fraud in the electoral process of Paraguay, denounced by the opposition forces.

The legitimacy of the electoral process is vital for the proper functioning of democracy, and the publicly made allegations showed that various irregularities may have been made by members of the right wing National Republican Association and by members of the Superior Court of Electoral Justice (TSJE) .

We call the electoral authorities of Paraguay to respect the popular will, and count the votes of all citizens properly.

NO TO FRAUD IN PARAGUAY! FOR DEMOCRACY!

Comunicado con respecto a situación electoral en Paraguay

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Pedimos para una recuenta de los votos de las ultimas elecciónes de Paraguay

Desde la Unión Internacional de Juventudes Socialistas (IUSY) observamos con preocupación la acusaciones de fraude en el proceso electoral de Paraguay, denunciado por las principales fuerzas de la oposición.

La legitimidad del proceso electoral es vital para un buen funcionamiento de la democracia, y las denuncias hechas públicas demuestran que varias irregularidades podrían haber sido realizadas por miembros del partido de derecha Asociación Nacional Republicana como por miembros del Tribunal Superior de Justicia Electoral (TSJE).

Llamamos a las autoridades electorales de Paraguay a que respeten la voluntad popular, y que los votos de todos los ciudadanos sean debidamente contabilizados.

¡NO AL FRAUDE EN PARAGUAY! ¡POR LA DEMOCRACIA!

IUSY rechaza represión de la que son víctima jovenes en Nicaragua

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Manifestante de Nicaragua

Desde la Unión Internacional de Juventudes Socialistas (IUSY, por sus siglas en ingles), expresamos nuestra gran preocupación por los últimos acontecimientos que se vienen dando en Nicaragua, donde se ha desatado la represión los últimos 3 días por parte del gobierno de Daniel Ortega en contra de las manifestaciones que se han levantado por su intención de reformar la seguridad social.

Desde IUSY condenamos que los jovenes sean asesinados, reprimidos y perseguidos por un gobierno que se niega a respetar los derechos fundamentales, actuando incluso mediante el Ejército en ciudades como Estelí (Nicaragua) para acallar las protestas.

Las cuatro víctimas mortales que ya se cuentan, todos ellos jóvenes, los numerosos heridos y golpeados, los daños a instalaciones universitarias y el despojo de instrumentos de trabajo y las agresiones a periodistas, la censura a medios de comunicación independientes, son el fruto de la estos actos de intolerancia antidemocrática del gobierno de Ortega.

Nuestro reconocimiento a los estudiantes, la juventud y el pueblo de Nicaragua que están manifestándose de forma cívica en rechazo a la decisión unilateral de reformar el sistema de seguridad social, despojando de sus derechos adquiridos a miles de trabajadores y hace caer el peso de los costos de la corrupción sobre los más pobres.

IUSY is ready to do its active part to facilitate the work of ngos and youth for the inclusion of refugees

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Study session for an inclusive society for Refugees - Budapest - at the European Youth Center - 23/27 April 2018

The International Union of Socialist Youth is ready to welcome 22 participants from 18 countries to the European Youth Centre of the Council of Europe in Budapest for a 5-day Study session to empower youth in the hard work to create more open and fairer societies for refugees, from the 23rd to the 27th of April, 2018.

The Study session, organised by IUSY in cooperation with the Council of Europe, aims to facilitate the participants in exploring the roots of discrimination, empower them in their efforts to work with and for young refugees to help with the development of their full personality and their social inclusion.

Participants will explore the concepts of identity, discrimination, with a particular focus on refugees and Internally Displaced People.

Participants will be asked to share both their best and worst experiences from their home countries, in an effort to come up with an online platform that aims to help youth organisations to get in touch with NGOs and vice-versa. The aim of the platform is to improve the coordination in organising events at the local and national levels with the hopes to sensitise and engage their local communities in the active inclusion of refugees.

ZITA GURMAI – newly elected member of the Hungarian parliament and PES women President will open the Study Session on Monday – the 23rd of April, at 9:30 am.

Participants will be helped in their work by high-level speakers who will participate in a special Panel debate on Wednesday the 25th of April, at 11 am, focusing on the role of the different stakeholders in the field:

  • Marja Bijl – Vice-president of PES women (Party of European Socialists’ women network). Ms. Bijil is a managing director of an NGO working to combat human trafficking (a situation many refugees, both women and men face when they arrive in Europe). She is well known in her home country (The Netherlands) for the organisation of local-network to combat human trafficking;
  • Michaela Pobudova – Director of Mareena. Ms. Pobudova has a long history of working with refugees and migrants and is currently the director of Mareena. Mareena is a Slovakian NGO working for inclusion of newly arrived refugees and migrants through courses and workshops that facilitates the promotion of the full personality of people, helping them to not be “just refugees”;
  • Neil Arun – Journalist and Editorial consultant. Mr. Arun has been shortlisted twice for the European Press Prize. He has worked with local journalists in the Balkans and Iraq, specialising in investigative journalism. Mr. Arun has also been a mentor in the Refugee Journalism Project. Neil Arun has his work published on The Guardian, the New Statesman, The Atlantic, and The Independent among others.

The speakers will give participants an insight into the relationships between politics, civil society and journalism when it comes to working with and portraying the so-called “Refugee crisis”.

Contacts:
Amanda Lilliefeldt | IUSY Project Manager – amanda.lilliefeldt@iusy.org
Matteo Cervi | IUSY External consultant on communication – matteo.cervi@iusy.org

We support the PASOK Youth demands for the release of two soldiers of Greece detented in Turkey

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Greece - we demand the immidiate release of the 2 greek soldiers in Turkey

The aggressive rhetoric President Erdogan and the Leadership of Turkey have adopted in the past months against their neighbours, especially against Greece and Cyprus, constitutes an outrageous escalation of offensive behaviour that is not in accordance with the principle of good neighbourliness.

Furthermore, in the past few months, Turkey has increased the frequency of daily violations of the FIR of Greece, resorting to unacceptable actions in the Greek and Cypriot EEZ.

Recently, a Turkish patrol boat rammed a vessel off the coast guard of Greece, some nautical miles away of the Imia.

These actions demonstrate an escalating pattern of Turkish defiance of fundamental European and International treaties, as well as principles of the Rule of Law.

The imprisoning, on dubious and unfounded charges, of two Greek soldiers for more than 45 days in Turkey constitutes a climax of Turkish aggressiveness.

The Greek soldiers accidentally strayed across the borderline while routine patrolling, under poor weather conditions.

The established approach for relevant incidents, practised in the past by both Greece and Turkey, involved the on-site resolution of the issue between the local military authorities.

IUSY always support the peaceful resolution of all issues, following the established diplomatic ways and respect for International Law.

We unambiguously condemn the provocativeness of Turkish leadership and we demand the immediate release of two Soldiers of Greece.