World Social Forum and GPYF

Mes activités à la IUSY.. La préparation du Forum Social Mondial qui se tiendra du 20 au 25 janvier prochain à Nairobi. La mobilisation s'organise dans le cadre du Global Progressive Youth Forum. Ici la présentation des activités du GPYF.

The Global Progressive Youth Forum (GPYF) Activities at WSF 2007
The work of the GPYF at present is mainly focused on ‘Youth and Decent Work’ as part of the Decent Work Alliance. The Decent Work Alliance consists of International Trade-Union Confederation (ITUC), European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), SOLIDAR, Social Alert, Global Progressive Forum and Global Progressive Youth Forum.

Indeed, this focus allows all three organisations to bring under the framework of the Decent Work Alliance its common work on employment and young people from a European to a global perspective. IUSY’s ‘Rights@Work’ Campaign, ECOSY’s ‘More and Better Jobs’ and IFM-SEI’s work on Child Labour are all vital in ensuring a strong youth perspective in the global employment agenda.

A number of activities to be undertaken at the WSF will be co-ordinated under the framework of the Global Progressive Youth Forum (GPYF), which will combine the efforts of the IFM-SEI, ECOSY and IUSY.
These activities will be done as part of the DW Alliance.
At the WSF the ‘Decent Work Alliance’ will launch its campaign ‘Decent Work-Decent Life’. It is the intention of the GPYF to participate in the launch in order to ensure a strong youth voice from the beginning of the campaign.
Within the framework of the DW alliance activities, the GPYF will hold a one-day conference on ‘Youth and Labour’ and two workshops on the following issues:
o Rights@Work and Employment for Young People (to be done in co-operation with the youth of the international trade union organisation)
o Decent Work in Africa: what should be the priorities? Why? How?
Also within the Decent Work Alliance framework, the GPYF will launch a campaign on Child Labour, which will be lead by IFM-SEI.

Africa’s Time has Come!
Following a recent lobby activity undertaken in conjunction with ActionAid International on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) at the European Parliament, the GPYF will capitalise on this successful partnership and articulate a GPYF-Action Aid Activity on “EPAs and Africa: what consequences for the African Youth?” within the framework of the WSF 2007. We hope that this activity will prompt member organisations to mobilize around lobby work to influence the negotiations of EPAs in 2007, which will have strong consequences on the development of African countries.
Furthermore the GPYF will organise a meeting of the participants from its member organisations present in Nairobi and African NGOs comprised of young people who are involved in the Global Coalition Against Hunger.
In view of the planned EU-African Summit in 2007, the WSF provides an opportunity to facilitate a strong dialogue between our European and African Member Organisations present in Nairobi. Therefore the GPYF strongly urges their European Member Organizations to send representatives to Kenya. It is proposed that the GPYF will outline at the WSF what its demands will be within the context of the EU-African Summit in 2007.
For more information or questions, please contact us by email:
youth@globalprogressiveforum.org