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Mediterranean Committee

IUSY Secretariat

We are happy to invite you to the

Mediterranean Committee – Leadership Conference
the 25th of August 2014 at the Ghajn Tuffieha Camping Site in Malta

The Mediterranean Committee gathers young leaders of the IUSY member organizations in the Mediterranean with the aim to strengthen the organizations and the cooperation in the region. Together we will discuss the current political situation and elaborate strategies to face the challenges that lie ahead. This year’s Mediterranean Committee will take place in connection to the IUSY World Festival.

The main theme for the committee will, as for the festival, be 15 Actions to Eradicate Poverty in 15 Years. During the meeting we will have the opportunity to focus on the Mediterranean context and aspects of poverty. We will also cover topics like migration and minority rights. As a lot of our member organizations face organizational challenges, there will be a seminar on organizational structure and project management that will present methods and tools to strengthen our organizations. The participants can look forward to discussions, sharing of experiences and ideas, workshops, political actions and of course building networks and making friends!

Olof Palme Centre’s Global Project finances the Mediterranean Committee. The meeting will take place during the IUSY World Festival that is hosted by FZL. Each organization can register up to two participants for the meeting, gender balanced, holding some kind of leadership position within the organization since the committee meetings are the most important platforms for the regions in between the congresses and councils.

For any questions or remarks please don’t hesitate to contact the IUSY Secretariat.

 

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

REGISTRATION & PARTICIPATION FEE

Each organization can register up to two participants for the committee meeting. If you send two participants it must be one man and one woman. If your organization sends only one we reserve the right to request a change of participant to one of the underrepresented gender, as gender balance on the meeting is required in the Global Project.

You will need to register your participants in the online registration system. Registration is open until Friday the 18th of July. Please contact the IUSY Secretariat in case you should have any problems with the registration.

The participation fee is the same as for the whole festival. The money should be transferred before the 18th of July to the IUSY bank account:

Bank: BAWAG /// BLZ (BIC): 14000 /// Account number: 0531 0660 380 /// IBAN: AT41 1400 0053 1066 0380 ///
SWIFT code: BAWAATWW /// Reason for payment: Name and Country of your Organization

ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES

Day of arrival for the IUSY World Festival is the 20th of August, day of departure the 26th of August 2014. The Mediterranean Committee will take place the 25th of August. Please make your travel arrangements accordingly and do not forget that IUSY will not be able to cover accommodation or any other expenses for delegates who need to stay additional nights in Malta. There is no possibility to accept any participants at the campsite before the 20th of August or the after the 26th of August.

ACCOMMODATION & MEETING VENUE

HOW TO GET TO THE CAMPSITE

VISA

Please observe that the deadline for getting visa support is the 18th of July 2014.

TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT

The Global Project will be able to support your travel costs up to a fixed maximum amount per delegation (see attached table). We strongly urge all organizations to book your tickets immediately in order to get the best possible price.Only economy class tickets will be reimbursed. According to IUSY rules, business or first class tickets will not be taken into consideration under any circumstances.

Please note that IUSY can only reimburse cost of travels proven by original documents. Therefore do not forget to keep and hand in to the IUSY Secretariat ALL of the following documents: If you arrived by plane, we need original invoice showing the date, exact price and currency with which the ticket has been paid, and original boarding passes (in case you had connection flights – all of them). If you travel by boat, bus or train we need tickets of your full journey.

All travel reimbursements will be made in euro by bank transfer after the meeting. Please note that only the participants who attend at least 75% of the meeting will be offered travel reimbursement.

Please find in the following the NEW maximum amount of travel reimbursement per delegation

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Country,Organization,Max. Amount

Egypt,Egyptian Social Democratic Youth,ESDPY,500 €

Iran,Democratic Students Union of Iranian Kurdistan,DSUIK,400 €

Iran,Democratic Youth Union of Iranian Kurdistan,DYUIK,400 €

Iraq,Kurdistan Studens Association,KSA,550 €

Iraq,Kurdish Youth and Freedom Organisation,KYFO,550 €

Israel,Labour Young Leadership,LYL,400 €

Israel,Young Meretz Yachad,YMY,400 €

Lebanon,Progressive Youth Organisation,PYO,650 €

Morocco,Ittihadia Youth,IY,See invitation to AC

Palestine,Fateh Youth,Fateh Y,400 €

Palestine,Almubadara Youth,AY,400 €

Palestine,General Union of Palestine Students,GUPS,400 €

Tunisia,Jeunesse Socialdemocrate – ETTAKATAOL Youth,JS – EY,See invitation to AC

Turkey,Republican People’s Party Youth,CHP Y ,350

Turkey,Democratic and Patriotic Youth,DYG Y,350

Western Sahara,Unión de Juventudes de Saguía el Hamra y Río de Oro,UJSARIO,See invitation to AC

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Kindly note that only organizations without outstanding membership fees are entitled to travel reimbursement. To be able to receive travel reimbursement you therefor need to pay your membership fees (including 2014). To know how much your outstanding debt is please contact the IUSY secretariat ASAP. If you for of any reason can’t pay your membership fee you need to get in touch with the President of Control Commission (stephan.koeker@iusy.org) to make an agreement on the payment.

 

 

 

 

World Council of the Socialist International

IUSY Secretariat

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We, the International Union of Socialist Youth participated in the Meeting of the World Council of the Socialist International, held in Mexico City, On June 30 and July 1. The delegation was composed of the President of the Organization, Felipe Jeldres, the General Secretary, Evin Incir, and the Vice Presidents Anna Bruckener and Zac Aracely Vargas.

At the Presidium Meeting that took place before the Council, the President made a presentation of the new presidium, reported the realization of the XXX IUSY World Congress, the main conclusions and the organization of the next world festival of the organization, which will be held in Malta from 20 to 26 August.

In the meeting of the Council our President stated openly that IUSY will continue to have a critical view on the current state of the International, and reaffirmed expectations of a change so the that the International will earn and deserves the respect of young socialists around the world again. “We aspire to have an International that be a permanent engine of change, and an important and influential actor in international society. Today we are not the relevant actors are the transnational companies, the financial speculation, the institutions of fiscal regulations. we aspire to an international that be a guide of their  member organizations, which is a contribution to the construction of transformer majorities in each one of their countries, and to shake the conscience of his matches when they have strayed from our values ​​and principle “said .

IUSY will continue working to influence the change necessary to have a Socialist International at the height of what socialists around the world expect, a great voice of the left in the global society.

 

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La Unión Internacional de Juventudes Socialistas participó de la Reunión del Consejo Mundial de la Internacional Socialista, realizada en ciudad de México, los días 30 de junio y 1 de julio. La  delegación estuvo compuesta por el Presidente de la Organización, Felipe Jeldres, la Secretaria General, Evin Incir, y las Vicepresidentas Anna Bruckener y Zac Aracely Vargas.

En la reunión del presídium que se realizó antes del Consejo, el Presidente hizo una presentación del nuevo presídium, informó de la realización del XXX Congreso Mundial de IUSY, sus principales conclusiones y sobre la realización del próximo festival mundial de la organización, que se realizará en Malta del 20 al 26 de agosto.

Posteriormente, el Presidente de IUSY intervino en la reunión del Consejo, donde junto con reiterar lo anterior, señaló abiertamente que IUSY continúa teniendo una postura crítica respecto al estado actual de la Internacional, y reafirmó las expectativas de cambio que los jóvenes socialistas de todo el mundo tienen respecto a la Internacional. “Aspiramos a una internacional que sea un permanente motor de cambio, y un actor relevante e influyente de la sociedad internacional. Hoy no lo somos, lo son las transnacionales, lo es la especulación financiera, son las instituciones de regulación fiscal. Aspiramos a una Internacional que sea guía de sus organizaciones miembro, que sea una contribución a la construcción de mayorías transformadoras en cada uno de sus países, y que sacuda la conciencia de sus partidos cuando estos se han alejado de nuestros valores y principios” , señaló.

IUSY continuará trabajando por influir en los cambios que sean necesarios para tener una Internacional Socialista a la altura de lo que las y los socialistas de todo el mundo esperan, y para que sea la gran voz de la izquierda en la sociedad global.

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UYD on Youth Opportunities – Call for Participants

IUSY Secretariat

The North-South Centre of the Council of Europe is organising the 15th edition of the University on Youth and Development (UYD) on the topic of “Youth Opportunities”, in partnership with the Spanish Government (INJUVE), the European Youth Forum (YFJ), the Spanish Youth Council (CJE) and other international youth/youth serving organisation. The University will take place on 21-28 September 2014.

In this framework, the Centre will organise the 5th African Diaspora Training Course in partnership with the African Diaspora Youth Network (ADYNE). The main aim of this training course is to empower young people, particularly youth leaders and youth workers from the African Diaspora and promote their capacity to organise, take action and foster their political participation in their communities, in the Africa-Europe Youth Co-operation and Global Youth Work, through the development of competences related with project and organisational management.

The course is aimed to young people (18-30 years old), from African origin or working/interested to work directly with the African diaspora youth community, with some qualification or experience in terms of international youth work and project management. The working language of the training course will be English.

» Call for Participants
» Application form (to be completed in English).

The deadline for applications is July 15th.

XXX. IUSY World Congress 2014 – Adopted Statutes & Resolutions

IUSY Secretariat

①  IUSY STATUTES 2014

②  WE CAN MAKE POVERTY HISTORY! | Our 15 Actions to Eradicate Poverty in 15 Years.

③  EQUALITY

④  PEACE & SECURITY

⑤  ECONOMY

⑥  HUMAN RIGHTS

⑦  DEMOCRACY

⑧  SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

African Committee Meeting 2014

IUSY Secretariat

We are happy to invite you to the

AFRICAN COMMITTEE – LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
21st of August 2014 @Ghajn Tuffieha Camping Site, Malta

The African Committee gathers young leaders of the IUSY member organizations in Africa with the aim to strengthen the organizations and the cooperation on the continent. Together we will discuss the current political situation in Africa and elaborate strategies to face the challenges that lie ahead. This year’s African committee will take place in connection to the IUSY World Festival.

The main theme for the committee will, as for the festival, be 15 Actions to Eradicate Poverty in 15 Years. During the meeting we will have the opportunity to focus on the African context and aspects of poverty. We will also cover topics like migration, minority rights and HIV/AIDS. As a lot of our member organizations face organizational challenges, there will be a seminar on organizational structure and project management that will present methods and tools to strengthen our organizations. The participants can look forward to discussions, sharing of experiences and ideas, workshops, political actions and of course building networks and making friends!

Olof Palme Centre’s Global Project finances the African Committee. The meeting will take place during the IUSY World Festival (www.iusyfestival14.com) that is hosted by FZL. Each organization can register up to two participants for the African Committee, gender balanced, holding some kind of leadership position within the organization since the committee meetings are the most important platforms for the regions in between the congresses and councils.

For any questions or remarks please don’t hesitate to contact the IUSY Secretariat.
We are very much looking forward to seeing you!

 

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

REGISTRATION & PARTICIPATION FEE

Each organization can register up to two participants for the committee meeting. If you send two participants it must be one man and one woman. If your organization sends only one we reserve the right to request a change of participant to one of the underrepresented gender, as gender balance on the meeting is required in the Global Project.

You will need to register your participants in the online registration system here. Registration is open until Friday the 11th of July. Please contact the IUSY Secretariat in case you should have any problems with the registration.

The participation fee is the same as for the whole festival, 150€ per participant. The money should be transferred before the 11th of July to the IUSY bank account:

Bank: BAWAG BLZ (BIC): 14000   —   Account number: 0531 0660 380   —  IBAN: AT41 1400 0053 1066 0380
SWIFT code: BAWAATWW     —  Reason for payment: Name and Country of your Organization

ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES

Day of arrival for the IUSY World Festival is the 20th of August, day of departure the 26th of August 2014. The African Committee will take place the 21st of August. Please make your travel arrangements accordingly and do not forget that IUSY will not be able to cover accommodation or any other expenses for delegates who need to stay additional nights in Malta. There is no possibility to accept any participants at the campsite before the 20th of August or the after the 26th of August.

ACCOMMODATION & MEETING VENUE

HOW TO GET TO THE CAMPSITE

TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT

The Global Project will be able to support your travel costs up to a fixed maximum amount per delegation:

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Country,Organization,Max. Amount

Angola, J MPLA, 1 100 €
Benin, J PSD, 1 100 €

Burkina Faso, PDP/PS, 900 €
Cape Verde, J. do PAICV, 2 300 €
Ecuatorial Guinea, CPDS, 1 100 €
Gambia, YUDP, 900 €
Ghana, NDC YL, 600 €
Kenya, LPKYC, 600 €
Mali, J ADEMA, 900 €
Mali, UJ-RPM, 900 €
Morocco, IY, 500 €
Mozambique, FRELIMO Y, 700 €
Niger, OJT, 900 €
Senegal, MNJS, 600 €
South Africa, ANC YL, 500 €

Swaziland, SWAYOCO, 500 €

Tanzania, CCM YL, 600 €

Togo, CDPA, 900 €

Tunisia, JSD, 450 €

Uganda, UYD, 500 €

Western Sahara, UJSARIO, 700 €

Zimbabwe, MDC YA, 700 €
,,,[/table]

We strongly urge all organizations to book your tickets immediately in order to get the best possible price. Only economy class tickets will be reimbursed. According to IUSY rules, business or first class tickets will not be taken into consideration under any circumstances. Please note that IUSY can only reimburse cost of travels proven by original documents.

Therefore do not forget to keep and hand in to the IUSY Secretariat ALL of the following documents: If you arrived by plane, we need original invoice showing the date, exact price and currency with which the ticket has been paid, and original boarding passes (in case you had connection flights – all of them). If you travel by boat, bus or train we need tickets of your full journey.

Kindly note that only organizations without outstanding membership fees are entitled to receive travel reimbursement. To be able to receive travel reimbursement you therefor need to pay your membership fees (including 2014). To know how much your outstanding debt is please contact the IUSY secretariat ASAP. If you for of any reason can’t pay your membership fee you need to get in touch with the Head of Control Commission to make an agreement on the payment.

Young Political Movements Unite across Ideologies

IUSY Secretariat

Following recent events, where IYDU has been questioned regarding its independent existence by its own parent parties assembled under the IDU – IUSY, GYG and IFLRY, the young socialists, greens and liberals of the world, unite in the struggle for independent and free voice of youth within all our political families.

Independent and free youth organisations are essential in the struggle for a strong and autonomous voice of young people which in turn encompasses the great essential principle of participation in democracy. The youth have for many decades faced obstacles when trying to raise their voices. Major strides have been achieved over the last decades and progress made both on international as well as local levels to make sure that these voices are not restricted in any manner.

We, IUSY, GYG and IFLRY recognise the sacrifices made by young people across the globe to participate in forums of political decision-making. We recognise the decades of clamour to be accorded equal opportunities and to freely and responsibly participate in the betterment of our societies. In the wake of developments aimed at stifling these strides, we unite, now more than ever, to condemn any marginalisation or condescension of our counterparts in the different political families. Indeed, democracy demands better.

The youth have suffered marginalisation in various facets of life; social, economic, cultural and political. The Independence of Youth Political Organisations as shall be demonstrated below will be under threat if the world endorses the untoward acts of marginalisation and condescension now threatened by IDU upon the IYDU.

The international umbrella organisations for political ideologies should normally not interfere in each other’s work. However, this time we stand together in stating that youth across political spectrums should unite for their independent existence reinforced by a mutually respectful and empowering relationship with their parent parties. Consequently, the Youth must be able to run youth-led and independent organisations to its parent parties. This is the only way youth can meaningfully engage and provide input. Political parties are no exception. In fact, their responsibility is greater as they provide a model for society to reflect upon.

IDU has called an IYDU statutory meeting in London from 18-20 June 2014 without the approval of the IYDU Executive. This is despite the IYDU being an independent national registered non-governmental organisation, with its own statutes and rules of procedure. Statutes are in place to legally guide and lead NGOs worldwide. An organisation, whichever this may be, can never overtake another organisation’s name and scope against this organisation’s statutes. The IDU measures to hold an IYDU meeting without the latter’s approval is illegal and against international, regional and national law.

IUSY, GYG and IFLRY therefore call upon the IDU to desist from taking these illegal measures against its affiliated youth parties assembled in the IYDU.

”We don’t have a unanimous meeting of ideologies, however, we stand up for each other’s right to exist independently and thus providing a true youth perspective in the frame of our different ideological families. The youth unite us and for them we must stand together against oppression.”

We the undersigned endorse this common call on the 12th Day of June 2014
The IUSY Presidium, the GYG Steering Committee and the IFLRY Bureau

 

For more information:

IYDU – International Young Democrat Union

IUSY – International Union of Socialist Youth:

GYG – Global Young Greens

IFLRY – International Federation of Liberal Youth

 

FREE JOSEF!

IUSY Secretariat
Our Answer to Repression of Demonstrations Against Fascism and Racism Is Solidarity

IUSY wants to express its solidarity with our 23-year old comrade Josef from Germany who has been kept in prison since January because he demonstrated against the annual ball of the neo-Nazis, racists and fascists in Vienna.

On January 24, 8000 anti-fascists demonstrated against the “Wiener Akademikerball” (the Vienna Academics Ball). Every year, the extreme-right from all over Europe gathers to have a waltz in Vienna, from Austrian FPÖ, French Front National, German „Pro Deutschland“ or even representatives from openly fascist and neo-Nazi political groups. The peak on the iceberg of this terrible event: it happens not by coincidence around the Holocaust Memorial Day.

As this ball happens every year, it also gathers anti-fascists protesters from all over Europe who don’t put up with an open gathering of extreme-right that is threatening the core fundament of our societies – democracy and equality. This protest involves a broad political coalition, from holocaust survivors to political parties, initiatives and NGOs.

The evidence against Josef is poor, as was shown during the trial. Josef’s case shows that it is often not relevant at this kind of demonstrations if you are actually involved in peaceful or violent actions. Everyone who is attending this kind of happening is put in the same box. Josef is being used to set an example: since January, he has been kept in custody by the police during the investigation against him. The trial has started and he is still imprisoned.

As the far right is on the rise in all parts of Europe, we stand together firmly as socialists and anti-fascists and protest against EU states’ increasing repression against our struggle for democracy and freedom, and a society without racism, fascism and anti-Semitism. This trial aims to isolate the uprise for our values and sets the political target not on the actual problem – the openly spread racism, fascism and anti-Semitism of the extreme-right – but on those who show the courage to stand up against it.

IUSY demands: FREE JOSEF!

 

Elaboration of the Post 2015 Agenda

IUSY Secretariat

 The International Union of Socialist Youth participated in the meeting of civil society youth organizations that was organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), “ECOSOC Forum on Youth 2014: #Youth2015: Realizing the future They want”. The meeting was held the 2nd and 3rd of June in the headquarters of the United Nations, in New York.

The meeting was led by the UN Secretary General’s Envoy of Youth, Ahmad Alhendawi, and the President of ECOSOC, ambassador Martin Sajdik. Representatives from social and political youth organizations from all over the world were present to discuss the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and the post-2015 Agenda, with the main focus being on labor right and education.

During the meeting, the document “The Global Youth Call: Prioritizing Youth in the post 2015 Development Agenda” was signed, that calls for all Member States to give priority to the youth in the elaboration of the Post-2015 Agenda. The meeting manifested its concern and called for the UN Member States to consider the voices of the youth in the area of education, health, peace, personal security, governance and youth participation; themes that were also the main topics of this document.[1]

Since IUSY’s 30th World Congress, where the resolution “15 Actions to eradicate Poverty in 15 Years” was adopted, IUSY seeks to increase its impact on the post-2015 Agenda, since ours it the generation that mostly will suffer from the consequences of the decisions that are taken today for the coming years. Therefor, IUSY strongly demands a political analysis that breaks with the system that has been created the last centuries and allows us to move towards a new economic, social and political model that is based on the principles of solidarity, equality and social justice. The United Nations must open new doors for reflection and dialogue between different actors. The moment is now and we the youth must play a leading role in this.

[1]More information about the document and the Global Youth Call