OVERVIEW The focus of Youth Talk Show is for young entrepreneurs with disabilities to share their experience and knowledge to the participants who are young people with and without disabilities across Southeast Asia. The event is co-organized by AYF, AGENDA,...
Read moreThe 18th Youth: Open Space provides a platform for youth record youth’s views on disability and digital entrepreneurship. As the digitalization of the world continues to expand into many aspects of young people’s lives, competitive self-learning and skill enhancement programs are...
Read moreWe, the youth of Southeast Asia, express our continued frustration, desperation, and sorrow with what is still happening in Myanmar. Exactly one year ago today, the Myanmar military staged a coup d’etat deposing the democratically elected government and marked the...
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We, the youth of Southeast Asia, are looking to a better future following the struggle and losses from the COVID-19 pandemic. While time is allowing us to recover, there are other challenges that must not be overlooked. The climate emergency, Read more…
In this Open Space, AYF is providing a platform for youth record youth’s experience in doing activism and advocating their concerned issues. During the pandemic, youth initiatives do not stop. More strategies and activism arise as we go during the Read more…
In this Open Space, AYF is providing a platform for youth to discuss tolerance in the dimension of ethnicity and religion. Recently, it’s becoming more challenging to uphold the principles of tolerance, which are the respect and appreciation of cultures, forms Read more…
In this Open Space, AYF is providing a platform for youth to discuss the stress that we are facing right now. According to our survey during Youth: Open Space #5, 89% of youth experience mental health issues during the pandemic. Read more…
In this Open Space, AYF is providing a platform for youth to discuss youth mortality and livelihood. In the document of ASEAN YDI, it is stated “While mortality in youth is lower than other ages, youth are more likely to to Read more…
Update! May 11-12, 2022: AYF Secretariat brought the Youth Collective Statement (2021) during the Briefing Session of the Second Workshop: Second Iteration of the ASEAN Youth Development Index (2nd ASEAN YDI). The Statement was also displayed during the Open Session Read more…
We, as the youth of Southeast Asia, stand in solidarity with the people of Myanmar in condemnation of the Myanmar military junta and its security forces’ continuing lawless violence against peaceful protesters and civilians. While we welcome the efforts made Read more…