Insider Info: How to Score the Best Internship

[su_tabs active=”5″][su_tab title=”English“] The WYA Internship Program didn’t earn its reputation as the #BestInternship for nothing.  Currently offered in person or online (depending on the regional office), the WYA internship provides members the opportunity to gain professional skills while living out WYA’s core ideas. Projects are designed to enhance each student’s specific academic background and interests. […]

Appropriation vs. Appreciation: A Story About Culture

What pops into your mind when you hear the word “Culture”? Is it certain acts? Or is it clothes? Is it your family, friends, and people around you who influence you? What is culture and what does it signify to you? It is very important to understand what culture means to you, even if the […]

Meet WYA MENA’s New Program Officer, Zainab AlRamlawi

This July, WYA gives a warm welcome to our new WYA Middle East and North Africa Program Officer, Zainab AlRamlawi! “I noticed that the world is moving to materialism and investing more in material development, not human development…. when I took the Certified Training Program (CTP), I saw how WYA highly pointed to the importance […]

Looking for the Best Summer Ever?

  The best summer is what you make it! And with WYA, that’s a guarantee. Looking for a way to impact the lives of young kids? Curious to hear about a curriculum rooted in a strong sense of self? Register for a slot at the Human Dignity Curriculum Open House! If you’re a newly Certified […]

What Happens When Young People Lead?

  “WYA’s presence at the Commissions is vital with respect to solidarity, as we stand in solidarity to make sure that all countries can have a seat at the table and have the full scope of their human rights respected…” Thomas Sarrouf, a WYA Chapter leader from the United States, delivered a statement on behalf […]

Why Take WYA’s Advocacy Academy?

Last 2020, the World Youth Alliance launched the pilot of its highly requested Advocacy Academy online. Since then, it has been officially offered as part of the available training in all regional offices at the beginning of the 2021. Due to popular demand, regions have released the application deadlines for the Batch 2 and 3 […]

I am a Dignity Defender!

“Never underestimate the power of young people to make a difference… There are many young people who, like you, are passionate about making a difference. Together, we can do more” This is what the 5th World Youth Alliance president, Lord Leomer Pomperada, said in an interview when I asked him about what he wanted to […]

Today, We’ll Be Brave

  “The difficulties of these times are your privilege to engage in. They are our chance to become heroes.” – MMag. Dr. Gudrun Kugler, former WYA Europe Regional Director and current Austrian parliament member (ÖVP) These words rang true in March as selected WYA members drafted this year’s Declaration on Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia. Held […]

Art as the Algerians’ Means of Resistance

Culture is usually regarded as a tangible depiction of the human person. It is the bonafide identity of a given society. If we are able today to understand the previous civilizations, it is thanks to their cultural legacy. Century after century, we got to know lots about the former people through their cultures, represented in […]

A Time for Us!

2020 was a year to remember, where the existence of all homo sapiens on this blue planet turned upside down; for a stint, one might hold that liveliness on this earth ceased and that humankind vanished from the present. At the same time that several humans were battling for their lives in hospitals, others tried […]