SEENews Highlights WYF2019 Recommendations

In the closing ceremony of the World Youth Forum (WYF2019) in its third edition, Dr. Rascha Ragheb, the executive director of the National Training Academy, disclosed the forum’s recommendations. 

SEENews highlights the the Forums' recommendations: 

Launching an African initiative for digital transformation and governmental excellence.

Call for the launch of an African initiative to combat digital piracy.

Setting up an Arab-African online platform for woman that includes a digital library of all women-related studies and reports. 

Call for the establishment of a Euro-Mediterranean Committee to combat hate speech on social media.

Call on the United Nations to adopt an international protocol to combat hate speech.

The National Training Academy has put in place the executive mechanism for launching the Euro - Mediterranean Presidential Leadership Program (EuroMed PLP).

Call for the implementation of the African Union 2020 initiative to create one million jobs.

Launch an initiative to support and finance blockchain applications.

Launching a global initiative entitled Art for Humanity.

Establishment of information exchange centers between countries and inviting international institutions to support innovators around the world.

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Ragheb said in her speech on Tuesday that "We hope that the World Youth Forum sends a message of peace and love to all human kind and that our participants be ambassadors of love all over the world.”

The third edition of the Forum mainly discussed the sources of energy in the Mediterranean, food security in Africa, climate change, international security and fighting terrorism.

The WYF2019 was attended by around 7,000 youths representing different countries.

According to the forum’s schedule, participants attended 24 sessions and 14 workshops and discussed the prospects for sustainable development in Africa, challenges facing creative work in the age of technology, in addition to the energy sector in the Mediterranean countries.