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Azerbaijan
Within 10 DoA campaign Y-PEER Azerbaijan Peer Educator
Suliddin Baghirov held a 1 day awareness-raising session on HIV/AIDS in Ganja,
Azerbaijan. The event aimed at raising awareness of local youth about HIV/AIDS,
ways of HIV transmission and protection, symptoms and importance of combating
stigma and discrimination, associated with it. 15 young people, representing
various universities, youth clubs and NGOs attended the session.
India
Publication of Article- Demanding Sexual and
Reproductive health and Rights
The well recognized print media circulating in Patna
came up with an article based on the “Template Letter to Decision Maker”. This
was done to start a discussion among youngsters on the issues- Demanding
involvement of Youth in youth related decisions, Demanding Sex and Sexuality
education in Schools and Demanding Youth Friendly Health Services. The data
gained through the online Survey “My Pinion Matters” under the 10 DoA and also
another survey back in Patna was also used to provide base to the demands.
Hindustan Times (English), Hindustan (Hindi), I-next (Bilingual-Hindi and
English)
Lebanon
Discussion Group was held in Lebanon. The Lebanese Red Cross Emergency Medical
Service In Tyr discussed topics related to HIV/AIDS between them and they shared
stories about their experience with positive diagnosed people. They also shared
their experience with the new members between them and they consist about their
humanitarian responsibilities toward the needed people.
The results
were the experience shared between them and they shared their information with
each other.
Mongolia
The meeting of Y-PEER committee group members and Mrs.
Odontuya.S, member of the national parliament.
We decided that we have to meet Mrs. Odontuya.S who is
the most affective female parliament member in this new elected parliament in
Mongolia. One of the initiatives of the “10 Days of Activism Campaign” is to
mobilize young people to contact decision makers in their communities to lobby
for a rights-based youth centered development agenda. We mobilized the
parliament member to collaborate with young people and to be attended them in
decision making process.
We, as a young people, we are supporting these calls,
• Collaborate
with youth organizations among youth related
issues and policy ; and emphasize the participation on the issue
• The
ministries’ and NGO’s investment in programs that enable young people to claim
their rights, including sexual and reproductive rights.
• Enhance
the standard and content of comprehensive sexual education in secondary school
and increase efficiency of teacher to conduct training in new and participatory
approach.
• Collaborate
with NGOs which is working with adolescent and young people and make conference
in once 3 months.
• Establish
the institution of receiving women’s right conflicted application by female
Parliament members.
• Provide
sexual and reproductive health information or services to young key targeted
and disabled people.
• Promote
the number of organizations which keep secret, preference human right and serve
youth friendly services and
We have attended the meeting with Semjidmaa.Ch, the
executive director of MFWA, Munkhtsetseg, the youth program officer of MFWA and
Odontuya. D, the coordinator of Y-PEER Mongolia, Uyanga. B, Chinzorig,
Batdavaa.B, the committee group members as youth reprensentatives, personal
assistant and youth program officer of Mrs. Odontuya.S.
She said that she will lobby for the next year’s
budget of Mongolian government on establishing health cabinet in secondary
school.
Also, she promised that she will become our
representative in Mongolian government.
Morocco
Workshop on
AIDS and STIs
Young still
looking information on sexual health on the internet and sometimes lack of
experience they find false information which generates a set of risk behaviors
among youth.
For this
reason, the Moroccan Organization of peer education “OMEP” held a workshop on
research methods on Net with a set of young university in Kenitra.s
The
workshop was divided into 3 sessions:
- Session
1: Methods of research on the internet: a presentation was made by Houssam Eddine
SOUIDI which is a youth educator Pair, which explains for 30 minutes every
practical technique to find information on the net as well as verification of
reliability of information material on AIDS,STIs.
-Session 2:
Pre-test knowledge of young people about AIDS and TIS: Hicham Jeddoudi a young
trainer Peer educators conducted a brainstorming to evaluate the level of young
people in the area.
-
Session3: A detailed presentation on AIDS,STIs:
This session was facilitated by two young using a PPT presentation, Videos and
pictures.
Young
people responsible for this workshop enclose this workshop by role playing or
participants practice their knowledge and skills to transmit information to
other peer.
Oman
Y-PEER Oman
Joined a Omani Group Called “ Clean Up Oman “ in The Omani Culture Club , To Discuss
and Learn how it is Important For Youth To Participate in Saving the
Environment and How it is Important to Raise Awareness in Schools For Kids and
how can Y-PEER Help in Rising Awareness for the Youth in School From age 15 to
17.
In the Workshop
we discovered that Youth In Oman Need to Be aware and Y-PEER Oman should be
more involved in helping them.
Pakistan
A training session on SRHR has been conducted in Tehsil
Municipal Hall Mian Channu. In which 41 young people (from different Govt./Semi
Govt. Organizations) has been participated. The training started from 09:00 a.m.
in the Morning with the introduction of the activity and participants. Mr.
Khurshid Manzoor introduced the activity and briefed about the 10 Days of
activism. Then Mr. Umer Draz Khan Conducted the 1st session of Workshop in
which he has spoken about reproductive Health rights and shared some important
information about Sexual Health. After tea break session started with an
energizer, after that Mr. Abdul Ghafar conduct the session on the topic of “how
our youth are facing problems about SRHR’ in which everyone participated and they
shared their own opinions. In the end
Ms. Ayesha Bibi conducted a Questions/Answers session. The session was much
informative and young participant show their interest about it. A big number of
the stake holders and Civil Society networks were also attended the event and
evaluated it with a very positive feedback.
Somaliland
Somaliland
Youth PEER education organized a two days advocacy meeting in which 40 young
people from 8 Hargiesa universities of Hargiesa and attended. In this meeting
young people focused on the challenges they face and the laws that against to
their participation and also emphasized that they should participate all kinds
of decision making process. Young people
agreed advocate for the removal of any laws in Somaliland that are barriers to
youth participation in decision making process and speak out until decision
makers recognized the importance of their participation.
Nepal
A workshop on “ASRH” was conducted by NEEHD at
Kantipur International College, Budhangar, and Kathmandu, Nepal. Among the
participants were the students of BA Business Administration, both male and
female of the age group from 18 to 21. They actively participated in the interaction
program for 2 hours and very enthusiastically exchanged their view points
regarding the adolescents’ sexual reproductive health in the Nepalese context.
The participants shared their ideas they learnt from the various
The ASRH status of Nepal is very poor and degrading
.It should be improved as soon as possible in order to meet with MDG by 2015.The
participants have raised certain essential issues to be addressed so as to
upgrade the ASRH status in this country.
1.The Government
should maintain the overcrowd in public vehicle that causes sexual violation to
female gender
2. ASRH should be included in course of studies from
School level
3. Gender equity and women empowerment are highly
required in order to improve women condition.
4. There must be a good communication between parents
and children regarding the changes the adolescents’ face.
5. Concepts of coeducation, Informal education and
safe use of contraceptives and methods should be introduced.
6. Special awareness programs need to be conducted in
order to keep the adolescents’ safe from the sexually transmitted disease such
as HIV/AIDS etc. , and to make the guardians, teachers or senior citizens
understand that they need to talk openly without any hesitation to the teen
agers regarding the ASRH.
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Very nice report came from various countries. Excellent!
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