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Start Date & Time
July 2, 2008
All day event.
End Date & Time
July 9, 2008
All day event.
Location
Online.
Event URL
www.j8summit.com
RSVP Info
Name: UNICEF
Webpage: www.j8summit.com
Categories
Peace, Conflict & Governance
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The Junior 8 Summit, or "J8", is an annual forum where young people from
around the world meet and discuss global issues, and share their solutions
with G8 leaders and the world community. The Summit is a parallel young
people’s event to the annual Group of 8 (G8) Summit, where leaders from
eight major industrialized democracies (Canada, France, Germany, Italy,
Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States) meet to discuss
global issues of major concern.
The J8 Summit consists of teams of four young people from each G8 country,
as well as one young person from each world region to encourage young
people’s participation from countries that are not part of the G8. At the
end of their week of deliberations, representatives of the J8 Summit
present their recommendations, in the form of a J8 Declaration, to G8
leaders during a face-to-face meeting. This year, the J8 Summit will be
held in Chitose City in Hokkaido, Japan from 2-9 July.
The topics for this year’s J8 are:
Climate change and global warming
Global warming and climate change pose one of the greatest threats to our
planet, and children and young people will bear the brunt of the impact of
climate change.
Global health: Child survival, infectious diseases and HIV/AIDS
Infectious diseases, such as HIV, cause a great deal of human suffering
and, in some countries, are reversing decades of development progress.
Across the world, there is one common denominator: children and young
people are disproportionately affected.
Poverty and development
Poverty hits children the hardest. While a severe lack of goods and
services hurts all people, it is most threatening to a child’s right to
survival, health and nutrition, education, participation, and protection
from harm and exploitation.
The J8 Summit was founded to build global citizenship among young people
around the world. Although Summit participants share their own ideas, they
are also representatives of all young people worldwide. Young people from
around the world can learn and share their ideas about J8 topics through
the UNICEF’s Voices of Youth Discussion Forum, which connects them to J8
participants and other young people around the world interested in J8
issues. (http://www.unicef.org/voy/discussions/j8login.html).
A call to young people: What can you do to add your voice to the J8
community?
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