What’s to Come at the 2018 MIFF? (Part II)
On the second installment of what’s to come at the 2018 MIFF, we introduce the second half of films that would join the roster of screenings this March 27. Join us at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York City as we hold this year’s Manhattan International Film Festival! This year, we are […]
What’s to Come at the 2018 MIFF? (Part I)
As we countdown the days to the 2018 Manhattan International Film Festival this March 27, what better time than to give you a sneak peak of what’s to come at the festival screening? This year, we are excited to showcase our top 10 finalists from the United States, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and Lebanon. Read […]
Meeting The 2018 Viktor Frankl Awardees:
“Because every engagement with WYA is worthwhile” WYA is delighted to present the Viktor Frankl Award to exemplary members from the Philippines, Tunisia, Uganda, United Kingdom, Mexico, and the United States of America. Now on its second year, the Viktor Frankl Award is presented to outstanding members of the World Youth Alliance who have made […]
Reflections on communism: Why was there no Nuremberg for communism?
On October 17th WYAE was present at the conference on ‘Why was there not a Nuremberg for communism?’ hosted by MEP Marek Jurek in the European Parliament. After attending this event, we came up to a conclusion that nazism was a communism’s closest ideological competitor. Ideologies such as nazism and communism rested on variations of […]
Youth Changing the Face of Croatia
Mladi mijenjaju lice Hrvatske [tabs] [tab title=”English”] World Youth Alliance Croatia started its project In Cooperation Against Apathy in April 2017. Encouraged by the frequent emigration of young people and the generally bad demographic situation in Croatia, the World Youth Alliance Croatia has decided to make its contribution for improving the living conditions […]
For Generation Why? There’s WYA!
Let’s admit, we are a generation full of why’s. We ask ourselves and others a ton of questions every day: Why me? Why am I like this? Why can’t I do that? Why is the world terrible? Why are kids still hungry? Why are people still suffering? But why WYA? Simple. WYA is one of […]
The 2017 HLPF Opening: On Healing Otherness
Last July 10-19, 2017, the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The HLPF is an annual event by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) where countries, relevant UN entities, and other stakeholders convene to focus on the status of specific Sustainable Development Goals […]
2017 International Youth Day: Youth Building Peace
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKJmKH6zFXA] The Division for Social Policy and Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, collaborating with the Inter-agency Network on Youth Development’s Working Group on Youth and Peacebuilding on Friday, 11 August 2017 hosted the International Youth Day 2017 event at the United Nations Headquarters in New York under the theme […]
Lessons from the 2017 European Arts Forum
What is beauty? This is the question that the European Arts Forum (EAF) attempts to answer. Beauty is seeing clearly into each other with a complete respect for each other’s dignity and I can truly relate to this belief that EAF holds. After working on EAF for two and a half months, I was exhausted […]
The Best Time of My Life
The first few times I ever encountered the World Youth Alliance (WYA) was when three of classmates talked about it when they joined the summer camp back in 2015, and last January when the WYA Iloilo Chapter held a seminar for high school students. After those encounters, I started to do more research on WYA […]
