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2021-10-18
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2021-10-18
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  1. “What is important is to engage young people in a real process of transformation — not to consider them as passive actors of change, but as active ones, no longer as beneficiaries but as partners in the implementation of development projects and programmes. Central African youth is calling for the Security Council to completely lift the arms embargo. This will allow the State authorities to truly establish State authority and guarantee national integrity. I would conclude by saying that the Central African Republic needs multilateralism to face the development challenges of this era. The youth of the Central African Republic are counting on the Security Council for peace in their country.”

    2021-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8882 (2021) · source

  2. “According to the humanitarian report published by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in 2020, the Central African Republic has 1.3 million people in need and requires $36.1 million in financing to meet basic education needs. Today 70 per cent of the working population are young people with dreams and ambitions for developing their country. My organization has over 44,000 elected members throughout the Central African Republic, which makes us a consequential sovereign body. These figures constitute a kind of pressure and a warning for the years to come. In my capacity as guarantor of youth, I can assure Council members that we will live up to our responsibility to meet the challenges of the Central African Republic.”

    2021-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8882 (2021) · source

  3. “Let me assure the Council that these changes are real and visible. Within the framework of youth participation and integration into active life, we have assisted more than 50 young interns in the Ministries and other institutions of the Republic. We have organized intergenerational dialogues, which have been an excellent opportunity to bring the governing class and the governed together in more than six prefectures of the Central African Republic. This initiative will result in proposing a law specific to Central African youth, which is where the commitment of the National Council of Central African Youth lies. In figures, the need for education is an emergency for young people, and especially for Central African girls.”

    2021-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8882 (2021) · source

  4. “Notwithstanding those atrocious views, the Central African Republic is changing and changing considerably. Indeed, these changes will be the eternal legacy of the youth of my country. Central African young people have decided to take charge of the change they want, and this has occurred as a result of the commitment of the National Council of Central African Youth to being involved in the peace process. Also worth mentioning are the outreach message of 500 youth activists dedicated to raising awareness on coronavirus disease, the vigilance of a young girl who was one of 800 youth observers during the December 2020 elections and the “no” of young Central Africans during the preliminary consultations for the next “republican dialogue”. Many other actions could be listed to show that Central African youth are part of a paradigm of change.”

    2021-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8882 (2021) · source

  5. “In February 2019, I and my team at the National Council of Central African Youth were given the mandate to represent all youth leaders, making me the first woman to occupy this representative position with a sovereign mission to defend the interests of youth in the political context in which we are living at the moment, which is, as Council members know, consequential. Since independence, public discourse, including slander, is intensifying in a development routine that has caused my country to waver. The media have projected a crisis that will last 50 years and promote the idea of an “incapable youth” that is unfit to ensure its own destiny. These analyses and observations are frightening and unmotivating when it comes specifically to projects in the Central African Republic.”

    2021-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8882 (2021) · source

  6. “My name is Pamela Audrey Derom, President of the National Youth Council of the Central African Republic. I am speaking as a young person with the same aspirations as a young person in Europe, America, Asia or Oceania. I am speaking on behalf of the young people who have been relegated to the sidelines. I am speaking today on behalf of Central African youth, who were ignored during the major consultations and forced to conform to the context imposed on them. I thank the Security Council for providing this framework for interaction. The methodological approach it has adopted suits us because what is done without us is done against us. When the realities and intentions of young Central Africans, their eyes shining with dreams and hopes, are discussed, the debate is a real one.”

    2021-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8882 (2021) · source