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'Youth’s Future Leadership Roles Depend On Care, Opportunities Offered': Jawaher Al Qasimi
Rukhshan Mir (@rukhshanmir) Published October 21, 2018 | 07:00 PM
SHARJAH, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM - 21st Oct, 2018) H.H. Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammad Al Qasimi, Chairperson of The Big Heart Foundation, TBHF, Eminent Advocate for Refugee Children at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, and wife of the Ruler of Sharjah, has called on youth from around the world, future leaders, experts and international organisations to extend their participation to the ‘Investing in the Future’ MENA conference, IIFMENA 2018.
IIFMENA 2018 will be a global platform for engagement between the youth and world organisations to explore how collaborative action to overcome their critical challenges can be strategised and practicable solutions can be shaped to offer the region’s youth better opportunities develop their skills, build their communities and shape their future.
Sheikha Jawaher underscored that young people with their collective abilities and intellect hold the key to our future. ''We can either shape them to be instruments of peace and development, or leave them to drown in the extremism and darkness imposed by war and crises,'' Sheikha Jawaher said.
She called on world governments and international organisations to reach a consensus on charting a roadmap that will lead to building a future where the rights of children are protected, and their opportunities are not compromised.
Sheikha Jawaher said, "Today, the world is faced with critical questions surrounding peace, ethics and development: Will we allow crises and conflict to shape our reality? Should we accept extremist forces taking over the world? Or should we take the initiative to claim our right to self-determination and freely determine our present, future and destiny!"
The TBHF Chairperson lauded the efforts of the United Nations and partnering organisations who continue to work relentlessly to ensure that the youth can overcome crisis to become agents of positive change, progress and development.
Themed ‘Youth - Crisis Challenges and Development Opportunities’, the conference will be held on 24th and 25th October 2018, at Al Jawaher Reception and Convention Centre, JRCC, in Sharjah, and will bring together more than 60 speakers, 500 senior officials and young experts from around the world.
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