Off to a great start!

GYC and our partners would first of all like to wish you and yours well in the new year!

• Our year started off with our Jan 2015 Rwanda program, where participants rang in the new year discussing and addressing human rights issues of great importance to Rwandan youth and civil society organizations. Read the Jan 2015 GYC Rwanda Program Report!
• Looking ahead, GYC is getting prepared for our summer programs in Bosnia, Cambodia, Rwanda and the USA. Apply here!
• Hot off the Press! A report from our October 2014 Human Rights in the U.S.A. program

We are always interested to hear what you consider to be pressing human rights challenges and achievements in the world today and how we can address them through our programming. Send us an email and let us know.

And please support our work with a tax-deductible donation

GYC's local Rwandan and visiting participants visited the Ministry of Youth on December 31, 2014 in Rwanda to talk about youth unemployment.

Call for Participants!

Summer & Fall 2015

Global Youth Connect is now accepting applications for our Summer 2015 Human Rights Programs in Bosnia, Cambodia, Rwanda and for our Summer and Fall Programs in New York City.

DEADLINE is MARCH 15th for all programs (but with a FEBRUARY 27th Final deadline for the Eugene Lang College Credit program in Rwanda.

CONFLICT RESOLUTION DELEGATION TO BOSNIA

Dates: July 6 - 20, 2015

Age Range: 18 - 30 (Student/Young Professional) 

Program Tuition: $1950

HUMAN RIGHTS DELEGATION TO BOSNIA

Dates: July 28 - August 15, 2015 

Age Range: 18 - 30

Program Tuition: $1990

HUMAN RIGHTS DELEGATION TO CAMBODIA

Dates: July 15 - August 6, 2015

Age Range: 18 - 30

Program Tuition: $1990

Eugene Lang College Program in RWANDA

Dates: June 22 - July 13, 2015

SPECIAL DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 27

HUMAN RIGHTS DELEGATION TO RWANDA

Dates: July 30 - August 20, 2015 

Age Range: 18 - 35 (Student/Young Professional) 

Program Tuition: $2300

HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE U.S.A./NYC PROGRAMS:

June 25 - July 15, 2015 

October 7 - 14, 2015

For More Info On All Programs and to Apply:

Click Here

We greatly appreciate your willingness to promote these human rights learning and action opportunities to young leaders around the world.

If you have any questions about the application process or program information, please do not hesitate to contact us at contact@globalyouthconnect.org

Re-Connecting in Cambodia

GYC's Executive Director, Jesse Hawkes, recently did field research in Cambodia for our upcoming program there, reconnecting with partners (including the Youth Resource Development Program) and hiring our international program director. He posted photos on Instagram along the way. See below and Stay tuned!

GYC Alumnus Sambath Bun, pointing out forced evictions in Boeungkak, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

This poignant moment is from the new circus Battambang's theatrical piece in Siam Reap. The character portrayed by the young acrobat struck the classical dance pose to show the opression of culture during that period. But since the character's passion and a bit of luck enabled him to survive the genocide, the image reminds us that genocide cannot fully destroy a culture either.

Click the links below to keep yourself updated on GYC and our work.

Read about GYC’s latest visit at the UN

On Thursday January 22, GYC visited the UN to attend and contribute to a briefing on the role of human rights protection in peacekeeping operations, e.g. in DR Congo, which affects Rwanda and the Congolese refugees in our programs Read More Here...

Meet one of our partners!

Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Bosnia-Herzegovina (YIHR)

"Local Bosnian participants now have much more motivation in advocating and promoting human rights in BiH after they have seen how very interested internationals are."

Read more about why YIHR-BiH partners with GYC to advance human rights in Bosnia and globally.

GYC welcomes this spring’s interns! 

We are glad to announce that we have two students from Uppsala University in Sweden joining us this spring, Jonatan Grinde and Axel Vastermark. Many thanks to Axel and Jonatan for hard work thus far, including working on this newsletter! Read their bios here...

"Joining GYC's Executive Director at the UN in my role as an intern was an enlightening experience. It gave me further understanding about how GYC's unique approach fits in and is needed within the global human rights context."

- Jonatan Grinde

Visit our blog

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Here you can also read about interesting reports and updates from participants, staff, and partners of the organization, experiences from our alumni and current happenings in the world of human rights.

"Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe"

- Elie Wiesel