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IFLRY is now also expanding in cyberspace. A Liberal Web Team has been formed by six young liberals from different parts of the world: John Jaisey (Ghana), Tuomo Jarvela (Finland), Jeff Leanna (United States), Aleyda Ortega (Colombia), Lazaro Ramirez (Colombia) and Bart Woord (Netherlands - IFLRY Bureau)....
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I am writing this on board my flight to the IFLRY EC in Manila. Well, actually this plane is only taking me to Hong Kong - from there I will then proceed to Manila and hopefully arrive in time for the opening ceremony.Unfortunately I wasn’t able to write this earlier, as pilot strikes in Germany...
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The results of the latest election process in Zimbabwe can not be recognized as a democratic procedure. The recent situation where opposition supporters were beaten or even murdered for expressing their political views can not be considered, in any way, as a proper democratic environment to contribute...
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Last week I was in Strasbourg, on a trip with lot of my connections from all over Germany so it was totally a "Tim style trip". I was in Strasbourg for the Alliance of Liberal and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) group meeting on Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (PACE) Summer...
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The last little bit has been crazy in the office from Barcelona to Belfast to the Balkans to the move and to the start of a new internship programme. In the beginning of May, the European Youth Forum held the Council of Members and LYMEC had their Congress. Jelena Spasovic was representing IFLRY , and...
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From the 2nd to the 8th of July, we held a seminar on human rights and free trade in Risan at the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro. Participants from different corners of the world flocked to this enchanting place - the Bay of Kotor is apparently considered as one of the thirty prettiest bays in the world......
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Last weekend, I had chance to attend the 55th Congress of Liberal International. It was a very interesting meeting with many important leader from all over the world. As IFLRY ' s representatives, we had a very nice host organization, our beloved member organisation Alliance Youth. They were key...
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On Thursday I attended the first meeting of the Beneluberales, a group of several of the liberal youth organizations in the Benelux (Benelux, Netherlands, Luxembourg) which took place from the 14th to the 16th of May in Brussels. The idea of such a get-together had been floating in the air for many years...
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If you think the Netherlands is still the 'liberal paradise', you may be disappointed to hear the most recent policy proposal of the current government. Consisting of the christian democrats, the social democrats and the left-wing Christian Union, it has moved to ban the legal sale of crazy (hallucinating)...
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Four times a year does the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) convene, and IFLRY is traditionally present in order to support the Assembly of Liberals and Democrats in Europe (ALDE). From the 13th to the 16th of April another PACE meeting took place in Strasbourg (France). IFLRY was...
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Until the 4th of April, IFLRY Vice President Aicha Camara and me are present in the proximity of Johannesburg, South Africa, at the IFLRY/FNF seminar on African liberal youth cooperation. About 25 young African liberals from 12 different liberal youth organizations have convened here to discuss their...
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The Young Liberals for Belarus Network has launched its own web page; find it here : http://www.liberalsforbelarus.com . The Young Liberals for Belarus is a network that brings together various liberal youth organizations which are committed to - and engaged in - supporting liberalism and democracy in...
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As a recently elected Bureau of the International Federation of Liberal Youth, we are currently developing our working plan for the next two years and would like to seek input from our Member Organizations and other fellow liberals. In order to achieve this, we designed a questionnaire to receive constructive...
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For the last week Bart and I have been in Armenia for a joint seminar with Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty and the VVD, but also to witness the presidential elections. Together with participants from the Armenian National Movement, the Georgian Young Republicans and representatives from Abkhazia...
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By: Jelena Spasovic, IFLRY Vice President Serbia's ultra-nationalist Radical Party (SRS) leader Nikolić finished the first round of elections with a lead over the Democratic Party (DS) leader and presidential incumbent, Boris Tadic. Even on CNN this is one of top news and all people that are doing...
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By Ahissata Camara, IFLRY Vice President Today, the 5th January 2008, the Ivorian opposition-friendly newspaper “le Patriote” has published an article about the General Assembly in Sarajevo, which is the result of a telephone interview I made just after the GA. The article is in French and...
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Exactly one year ago, russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya from Novaja Gazeta, got shot to death in the elevator of her apartment building. She was one of the too few Russian journalist that dares to write about topics of sensitive character to the Kreml and president Putin, such as the war in Chechnya....
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Yesterday I wrote a statement for IFLRY on the current situation in Burma. I know that there is some controversy over whether to refer to Burma or Myanmar, but as I know that many pro-democracy NGOs in the West are still using Burma (for example the Burma centers ), I'm just following their precedent....
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Youth, mainly the western Balkans, met in Mostar, Bosnia, this past weekend to discuss education and youth unemployment. The aim of the meeting was to create a constructive dialogue among western Balkan youth from different ideological camps. The meeting in Mostar led to several suggestions on how to...
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Carta de apoyo de IFLRY para Ricardo López Murphy, líder del partido Recrear de Argentina en relación con su candidatura para la Presidencia de ese país. Las elecciones se llevarán a cabo el próximo 28 de octubre. IFLRY's support letter to Ricardo López...
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I asked an activist from Civil Forum if he wasn't thinking of leaving Belarus . His answer was that he would not leave until Lukasjenko was no longer in power. Such courage and fighting spirit is needed to fight the last dictatorship in Europe. This weekend IFLRY and LYMEC together with a couple...
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Looking for the latest t-shirt design? Or maybe a poster to put up on your blank wall?? BUDAPEST- During the seminar ‘Respect for religious diversity: fighting Islamophobia' April 2007, participants from around the world were asked to talk, discuss, and share individual, member organisation,...
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Today was a historic day for the International Federation of Liberal Youth as it welcomed the Young Democrats of America as a full member organization, following a very successful seminar organized by both organizations and attended by close to 100 young liberals from over 30 countries on the challenges...
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Last weekend I took part in a two-day UN simulation organized by and in conjunction with the larger, five-day TEIMUN , in The Hague. One of the features of the TEIMUN simulation is that there is some sort of regular, twice-a-day newspaper (the 'Teimun Daily') published for all the participants....
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Amanda Lövkvist (SILC), Johan Chytraeus (LUF) and I arrived in St Petersburg right after Victory Day and when the conflict with Estonia over moving the Bronze soldier had started to calm down. Kostya and Sasja from Yabloko Youth picked us up at the airport and drove us to the hotel. Just a few hours...
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