Learn & Participate
Do you have something to say about J8 issues? Are you interested in what other young people are saying? Do you want to link up with youth from around the world?
The J8 Discussion Forum on UNICEF’s Voices of Youth platform offers you a safe and supportive online space within which to explore, speak out and take action on issues related to climate change and global warming, global health, and poverty and development.
The Voices of Youth community consists of children and young people from around their world, including J8 participants who will be attending this year’s J8 Summit. Join now and have your say!
The Topics for 2008
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Climate Change and Global Warming
Global warming and climate change are one of the greatest threats to our planet. Today's children and young people will bear the brunt of the impacts of climate in the future.
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Global health: Child survival, infectious diseases and HIV and AIDS
Infectious diseases, such as HIV, cause untold human suffering and in some countries are reversing decades of development progress. Across the world, there is one common denominator: children and young people are disproportionately affected.
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Poverty and development
Poverty hits children the hardest. While a severe lack of goods and services hurts every human, it is most threatening to children’s rights: survival, health and nutrition, education, participation, and protection from harm and exploitation.
Join the Discussion in the Forum
Have your say about J8 issues and discuss them with other young people from around the world!
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Chitose Declaration and Young People Action Plan
We, the thirty-nine J8 delegates from Barbados, Canada, Cote d’Ivoire, France, Germany, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States of America believe that it is imperative for G8 leaders to listen to the voices of young people. We urge you to act upon previous J8 declarations as well as our own, so that young people are not ignored. We also need follow up with the G8 governments so that young people can get involved and make sure that our ideas transfer into action NOW and in the future.
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