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Voices of Youth (VOY) provides over 20,000 young people from 180 countries with an opportunity to explore, discuss and take action on complex human rights and development issues.

Since 1995, VOY has focused on:

Exploring the educational and community building potential of the Internet, and

Facilitating the active and substantive participation of young people on issues as varied as: HIV/AIDS ° Gender Inequality ° Child Rights ° Girl's Education ° Child Protection against violence, abuse and exploitation

Youth to Youth:

Through web boards, interactive quizzes, youth activist profiles, live chats and more, VOY provides youth with an opportunity to self-inform and engage in lively debate, as well as fosters peer education and a youth web-based community. With 63% of all participants girls between the ages of 5 and 21, and 35% from developing countries, Voices of Youth is unique in its ability to reach and connect young people around the world.

Making a global impact:

Voices of Youth recognizes the urgent need to ensure decision makers and policy planners hear what young people have to say. Acting as a two-way communications hub, VOY enables youth and decision makers to interact and impact one another in a consistent and substantive manner, thus setting the foundation for youth friendly and informed policies.

Child Protection from violence, abuse and exploitation Read More

I am used to beating, this is nothing new in my our culture. Boys can beat or even harrass you. Even if you would feel bad about it, there is nothing that you can do. Melody, Namibia, 14

With over 250 million children employed under the age of 15, I think it is imperative that we as a society step in and intervene. During this time children should be in school learning, instead of working in a factory. J. Thomas, Djibouti, 14

Hi, I know for a fact that all over the world, children are being abused both sexually and physically. This is not right and something needs to be done to fix it. Children are young and their minds are still developing. If you perform violent acts around them, they will grow up to be juvenile delinquents, or even worse abuse their own kids. Some people just don't realize how special every child is, because they are all creations of God. Susan, USA, 15

Children and War Read More

Hello, i think that war is wrong. People think that blacks are different from whites. They treated us badly, they hurted us, they killed us, they talked about us. Now i'm not saying that everybody is like that. I'm just saying that people need to stop hating each other and love each other and see how much we could do together without fighting. Andrea, Georgia, 11

Girl's Education Read More

l am a Sudanese from Yambio and am concerned about my country. Girl's education is a big issue which l hope our leaders will solve. Many girls drop from school because of so many factors. What can we do to stop this. Please Help these poor girls compelete this school. Christine, Sudan, 17

hi! i am from western thrace turkish minority living in greece, we have some problems here as young students, we dont have qualified turkish teachers in our primary schools because our teachers are graduated from special pedagogical academy of salonica and we couldn't learn our mother tongue well A.S., Greece, 13

HIV/AIDS Read More

I believe that fathers should talk to their daughters about sex and take active interest in their daughters well-being. By this I mean, they should talk to their daughters about other men and trying to build their girls' self-esteem. I believe that this is an integral part of preventing girls from contracting HIV which leads to AIDS. My final point is that we should be allowed to ask exactly what we want to know concerning AIDS and sex, even though it may seem ridiculous or unusual to an adult conservative person. C.Wright,Trinidad & Tobago, 15

Taking Action Read More

My name is Marlene from Indonesia. I know my country was and is, in fact, one of many poor countries in the world. Here you can see lots of children on bare feet wandering around without knowing where should they go to. They have neither house nor families. I really concern about this but I don't know what to do. BUT I know I have to do something.Marlene, Indonesia, 15

I believe that young teens who have variuos facilities should get together and start forums and clubs in thier own country and link them on an international scale to help their friends and conterparts of the world who suffer and cannot avail even the basic facilities of education. Also young teens can help other teens with their self esteem related problems and help to boost their self confidence because I believe every individual born on this planet has the right to achieve success whether the child is a boy or a girl, whether the child is rich or poor. Nandini, India, 16