It should be everyone’s responsibility to protect the rights of those around them. However, very few accept this mantle with as much grace as Ashley Komangaapik Rose Cummings. Commonwealth Correspondent Samantha Khan, 26, from Trinidad spoke to the 2019 Commonwealth Youth Awards finalist about her work championing the rights of indigenous communities in Canada. If …
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What Other Commonwealth Nations Can Learn from Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Day
September 30by Justin R. Langan The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, first held in 2021, takes place o …
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Youth Development | Youth Empowerment | Youth Networks | Youth Policy
International Youth Day: Stop Telling Us We’re the Future
August 11by Justin R. Langan As a resident of Manitoba’s expansive prairie lands, I experienced infrequent us …
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Culture | Networking | Sustainable Development | Youth Networks | Youth Policy
COP 30: From Ancestral Wisdom to Action: Indigenous Youth at the Frontlines
August 8by Dra.Dassia Regalado and Ibiso Ikiroma-Owiye World Indigenous Peoples’ Day, celebrated each year o …
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You Can’t Afford a Child Just Because You Can Make One
July 6by Similoluwa Ifedayo Sometime this month, on my way home, something cracked in me. I saw a boy—mayb …
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Read moreStay home, stay safe, stay alive. That is the global message as the coronavirus pandemic claims more lives. While many of us can practice social distancing, spare a thought for refugees, forced migrants and displaced persons who have no choice about how and where they live. Bismark Akoto, a 24-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent from Accra, Ghana …
As one of the countries in Africa hardest hit by the coronavirus, Nigeria is pushing through new health legislation to replace old laws dating back to 1926. Although most citizens understand the need to replace old laws to reflect new health challenges, Omeye Chimaobi Kenechukwu, a 24-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent from Nigeria, raises concerns about human rights infringements …