Tengku Vannesa Rilviena, student of Faculty of Pharmacy 2007, was one of three indonesia delegations at The 21st International Youth Forum,  Seoul, South Korea.

The International Youth Forum this year focuses on The Role of Youth for Achieving the Cairo Agenda

Programs

A. Forum

a. Keynote Lecture and Q&A

b. Section Meetings

On the topics of protection of family dignity, world population for sustainable development and promotion of public health of the world organized by the executive staff of APA.

c. Report on researches and activities and Q&A

Such international organizations as European Youth Jeunesse and Asia-Europe Foundation will report on their researches and activities related to the topic and will answer questions of audience.

d. Case Study

Participants will present the case of his/her own country’s conditions and efforts related to the topic, and find solutions together

d. Group Discussion

Participants will discuss on the result of field survey and related policies of his/her own country. Each group will organize and present their discussions to the other groups that will be used as basic materials of a youth declaration.

e. Mock Court

Participants will hold a tribunal, divided into two positions, the accuser and the accused (opposed to achieving Cairo Agendas).

f. General Assembly and the Adoption of a Youth Declaration

Participants will share and consolidate thoughts and ideas gathered from the discussions, activities and lectures, and will draw up a Youth Declaration.

B. Other Programs

a. Orientation and Ice-breaking meeting

b. Friendship evening

c. Seoul study trip and cultural lessons.

107 participants from 39 different countries gathered in Seoul, Korea from August 18th to 25th, 2010 to seek ways to encourage youth involvement in achieving Cairo Agenda. The Participants discussed the following specific objectives:

1. Protection of family dignity

The family is the basic unit of society. The process of rapid demographic and socio-economic change has influenced patterns of family formation and family life and has generated considerable change in the composition and structure of families. In this stage, we should try to find the answers of this question. How to protect our family dignity?

2. World population for sustainable development

We need to figure out the interrelationships between populations, sustainable economic growth, and sustainable development. Specifically we are trying to solve and find the answers for these problems. a) Integrating population and development strategies. b) Population, sustained economic growth and poverty. C) population and environment. The final objective that we will need to consider, will be “The Family, Its Roles, Rights, Composition and Structure”

3. Promotion of public health of the world

The AIDS pandemic is a major concern in both developed and developing countries, the objectives are to intensify research on methods to control the HIV/AIDS pandemic and to find an effective treatment for the disease . sex education and information should be provided to both those infected and those not infected, and especially to adolescents. The international community is called upon to mobilize the human and financial resources required to reduse the rate of transmission of infection as well.

We the participants of the 21st International Youth Forum determined

1. To stress the need for the youth in all countries to acknowledge the urgency of working towards achieving the Cairo agenda, and

2. To reaffirm our right to take appropriate courses of action to address the issues of the Cairo Agenda, and

3. To help create a global environment in which the youth can better participate socially and politically

As youth leader, we hereby declare our commitment towards achieving the component of the Cairo Agenda. The need to solve the issues at hand is evident in every corner of the world. Trough above recommended courses o action the youth can, and will significantly contribute to the success of the Cairo Agenda.