“It’s not possible to return to the summer when you are 17. Celebrating graduation cannot be played on repeat.”, the Norwegian health minister said in a widely shared speech to our youth during corona, a speech in which he thanks…
Author: Anne Sophie Pedersen
Anne Sophie is a member of Venstres Ungdom and the project manager of the organization's project group in Zambia. She studies project management in Copenhagen and just returned from a semester abroad in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
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Interview with August Stengaard, Venstres Ungdom’s International Officer
Find our other interviews with liberal and democratic youth organisations here. Why should liberal youth organizations engage in international work? And are we, as young people, able to achieve anything by doing so? While sitting on a corona-deserted train, I…
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Learning More From Our Similarities Than Our Differences
Capacity building, inspiration, and a feeling of being heard and understood: Throughout the last year, YWCA of Zambia and Danish Liberal Youth (DLY) have established a partnership with funding from the Danish Youth Council, and though much of the story…
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One Step Forward And Five Backward: A New Indonesian Penal Code
Since the finalization of Indonesia’s new criminal bill, headlines like “Indonesia: Draft Criminal Code Disastrous for Rights”, “Indonesia protests over sex before marriage bill”, and “Indonesian couple fear pre-marital sex ban will make them criminals” have been the center of…
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The smallest effort you make can be a big fire
Conversations with local volunteers in Lusaka, Zambia. ”To be an inspiration and help for young kids. That is my biggest dream”, he says as we sit at the crowded cafeteria of YWCA. It is Thursday, and after six intense days…
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For our own or the world’s sake?
Reflections on a liberal youth organization’s project work in Africa “I’ll be spending the summer in Zambia working on our project on women’s rights” I say while trying as hard as I can not to make a facial expression that…