During the last General Ordinary Assembly of FLAJ (Latin American Youth Forum) held in Panama, IFLRY was elected for the first time as member of the bureau and was appointed as Commissioner of Institutional Strengthening. This is a further step in the increasing visibility of the Federation and young liberalism across the Latin American continent. The political and training activities held by the Forum also work to improve and develop IFLRY and JULIA throughout.

In FLAJ’s General Assembly of Uruguay in 2006, IFLRY was accepted as full member and ever since we have been working on the development of this regional platform and its influence on the core liberal values such as freedom of speech for youth. Our main responsibility as Commissioner of Institutional Strengthening is to try to develop national platforms all along the Latin American continent as a way of promoting youth rights in the different countries.

This new success and engagement for IFLRY is another opportunity to spread liberal values and further a young liberal perspective on this continent, where we all know there is a huge number of restrictions on rights like freedom of expression and freedom of speech. Also, it is a new source of activities and gives the Federation the chance to work closely with partners in those countries where individual rights are challenged and in some cases not even granted.

Alongside this process IFLRY has been promoting the establishment of a new Ibero-American platform together with several international youth organizations and youth councils. This scenario will be presented in October at the Iberoamerican Summit held in El Salvador.