Global Young Greens

Global Young Greens
Industry	Environment, Social Justice, Democracy
Founded	2007
Headquarters	global, officially Brussels, Belgium
Key people	Steering Committee (last elected 2012)
Website	www.globalyounggreens.org

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The Global Young Greens (GYG) is an emerging global organisation supporting and consolidating the efforts of young people working towards social justice, ecological sustainability, grassroots democracy and peace. GYG is a joint project of over 70 youth organisations and many hundreds of individuals, including the Federation of Young European Greens, Asia Pacific Young Greens Network, Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe, Young Volunteers for the Environment and others. GYG is a non-profit organisation under Belgian law.

History

The first informal meeting of young greens from around the world was held in Sydney, Australia prior to the 2001 Global Greens Conference,.^[1] Inspired by the Global Young Greens conference of 2001, in 2005 members of the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG), Campus Greens USA, and many young Green groups and individuals began discussing via email holding another conference. In 2006 two persons began working out of the FYEG office in Brussels. The official founding congress of Global Young Greens was held from January 16–20, 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya. It was attended by 156 people, with 133 voting participants, all under 35. Despite efforts of the organisers, the gender balance was still 2:1 male to female. The numbers were approximately as follows: Africa: 89 (50 Kenyans), Americas: 5, Asia/Pacific: 31, Europe: 26.^[2]

Some of the countries that were represented included New Zealand, Germany, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Canada, France, Spain, Tunisia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgykstan, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Benin, Andorra, Czech Republic, Italy, Cyprus and Kenya.

The congress saw agreement on an organisational structure, a list of principals and also elected an organising committee featuring 16 young people from 4 regions: Africa, Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe.

Another informal, two-day GYG meeting was held in São Paulo, Brazil in April 2008, preceding the Global Greens Conference. Around 60 young greens participated.

The Second Congress of the GYG was held August 8–13, 2010 in the German capital Berlin.^[3] Over 100 delegates from 48 nations participated in the Congress which lasted for 6 days and included dozens of workshops, several high-level panel debates as well as alternative approaches to exchanging ideas and learning from each other. In Berlin, the structures of the network were revised. Impressions

Principles

Membership is open to people 35 and under who identify as Green. Green principles are generally known as “the four principles”:^[4]

ecological sustainability
social justice
grassroots democracy
peace

But this is merely the tip of the iceberg- for a full understanding of what it means to be Green, one and all should read the Global Greens Charter which is endorsed by GYG.

Additionally, the Global Young Greens are striving for the following principles on all levels (local, national, regional, global):

Protection and restoration of the environment and respect towards animals
Sustainable, equitable and just development
Social Justice
Grassroots, participatory and global democracy, and in particular empowering young people to participate and build more democratic societies
Peaceful and non-military conflict resolution, arms control, disarmament
Gender justice, empowerment of women
Inter-generational justice, empowerment of youth and children
Freedom from discrimination on any grounds whatsoever, and equality for all
Empowerment of marginalised and disadvantaged people.
Just globalisation and fair trade
Personal freedom on the basis of universal human rights
The right of all people to self-determination particularly indigenous people.

Objectives

The objectives of GYG are to:^[5]

Empower young people within the framework of participatory democracy
Create a space for young people to be active without being dominated by older generations
Address inequalities between organizations and individuals
Forge strong links between sectors and organizations
Further the Green principles on planet Earth

Steering Committee (SC)

Members of the SC elected in Dakar (until the next Congress) are: Alex Surace (Australia), Amy Tyler (Australia), Bart Dhondt (Belgium) Bernardo Estacio (Venezuela), Forget Chinomona (Zimbabwe), Jaime Andres Carrero Suarez (Colombia), Julia Duppre (Brasil), Michaela Prassl (Austria), Nassima Guettal (Algeria), Perlo Michel (Senegal), Robyn Lewis (Australia), Rose Wachuka (Kenya), Sarah Benke (Germany), Tanya Gutmanis (Canada), Teo Abaishavili (Georgia), Yangki Imade Suara (Indonesia),

Previous members of the SC elected in Berlin (until the Congress in Dakar) are: Adam Sommerfeld (Canada), Alex Surace (Australia), Ann Bulimu (Kenya), Anna Kavalenka (Belarus), Clarence Chollet (Switzerland), Chung-Ming Wang (Taiwan), Jesùs López (Venezuela), Kalpana Ambepitiya (Sri Lanka), Kelvin Kaunda (Zambia), Lukas Beiglböck (Austria), Mareike Rehl (Germany), Masami Muramatsu (Japan), Roberta Morena Santos (Brazil), Roselin Monogla (Benin), Sandra Guzman (Mexico),

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