International Green Youth

International Green Youth (Global Young Greens) (GYG)
Establishment date:	January 2007
Seat :	Brussels , Belgium
Website:	globalyounggreens.org

The International Green Youth ( Global Young Greens , GYG for short ) are a global network of green youth organizations. You are committed to ecological sustainability , social justice , grassroots democracy and peace .

GYG is a joint project of several dozen organizations and several hundred individuals, including the Federation of Young European Greens , Asia Pacific Young Greens Network , Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe , Young Volunteers for the Environment and the Heinrich Böll Foundation . It is a non-profit organization governed by Belgian law.

Every person who defines himself as “green” and is not older than 35 years is invited to take part. A 14-person so-called Steering Committee , i.e. a steering committee, is responsible for coordinating one's own work , which is elected at global congresses that are to take place at least every three years. At these meetings, each participant is entitled to vote, but not more than four per continental association.

history

prehistory

The first unofficial meeting took place in Sydney in 2001 just before the Global Greens Conference . Inspired by this meeting, members of the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG), Campus Greens USA and several other green groups, as well as individuals, began to plan for a first conference of green youth organizations via email correspondence in 2005 . The following year, two employees of the Federation of Young European Greens in the FYEG's Brussels office began working on the plan, which led to the GYG being constituted at its first congress in January 2007.

Foundation at the 1st Congress

The first official congress was also the founding congress and took place from January 16 to 20, 2007 in Nairobi. He was visited by 156 people, of which 133 voted. According to the organizers, approximately 89 of the participants were from Africa (including 50 from Kenya), 5 from America, 31 from the Asia-Pacific region and 26 from Europe. Despite the organizers' best efforts to encourage female participants to participate, male visitors made up approximately two thirds of the participants.

Participants came from New Zealand, Germany, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Kyrgyzstan, Tunisia, Kazakhstan, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, South Korea, Canada, France, Spain, Japan, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Benin, Andorra, Czech Republic, Italy, Nepal, Cyprus and Kenya.

At this congress the organizational structure was agreed and the first steering committee consisting of 14 members was elected.

The first elected steering committee consisted of the following members from the following continents:

• Africa :

 Douglas Arege (Kenia), 
 Marie Madeline Boni (Benin), 
 Eric Dombou (Kamerun), 
 Rim Nour (Tunesien)  

• Asia Pacific:

 Caroline Ayling (Australien), 
 Raju Pandit Chhetri (Nepal), 
 Murtaza Mir Ghulam (Pakistan), 
 Elena Zakirova (Kirgisistan)

• Europe :

 Andreas Birnstingl (Österreich), 
 Ognyan Kovachev (Bulgarien), 
 Janna Schönfeld (Deutschland), 
 Sarah Trichet Allaire (Frankreich)  

• North and South America :

 Andrea Horan (Kanada), 
 Juan Manuel Zorraquín (Argentinien)

2nd Congress

Another unofficial two-day meeting took place in São Paulo in April 2008 in preparation for the next GYG congress, in which over 60 young people took part.

This was followed by the second congress from August 8th to 13th, 2010 (in Berlin ); a meeting attended by over 100 delegates from 48 nations. Among other things, the current steering committee was elected.

3rd Congress

The third Global Young Greens Congress took place at the end of March 2012 in Dakar , Senegal .

Principles

Membership is open to anyone under 36 who identifies with the term “green” . This means ecological sustainability, social justice, grassroots democracy and peace.

The twelve principles of the Global Young Greens are set out in the Charter of the Global Greens :

• Protection and restoration of the environment and respect for animals
• sustainable and equitable development
• social justice
• global and participatory democracy ( grassroots movement )
• peaceful resolution of conflicts; Arms controls; disarmament
• Gender equality
• Equity between generations; Strengthening children's rights
• Exemption from all forms of discrimination
• Empowering marginalized and disadvantaged people
• Just and fair globalization
• Freedom of the individual based on universal human rights
• Right to self-determination of indigenous peoples

Steering committee

Since the last election in March 2012:
Forget Chinomona ( Zimbabwe )
Michel Perlo ( Senegal )

Nassima Guettal ( Algeria )
Rose Wachuka ( Kenya )
Bernardo Estacio Abreu ( Venezuela )
Jaime Andres Carrero ( Colombia )
Julia Duppré ( Brazil )
Tanya Gutmanis ( Canada )
Alex Surace ( Australia )
Amy Tyler (Australia)
Robyn Lewis (Australia)
Yangki Suara ( Indonesia )
Bart Dhondt ( Belgium )
Michaela Prassl ( Austria )
Sarah Benke ( Germany )
Teo Abaishvili ( Georgia )

• continental
  member organizations: 4

• national
  member organizations: 50
  (including 36 in Europe)

Web links

• Global Young Greens website
• European Green Youth Association website
• Asia-Pacific Green Youth Association website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gruene Jugend Deutschland via the GYG  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ GYG.org Background (in English)
3. ↑ Congress Report (1st Congress, in English) ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 465 kB)  
4. ↑ Congress report (2nd congress, in English) ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Impressions from the 2nd Congress (in English)
6. ↑ Dakar 2012 (in English)
7. ↑ The 12 principles of the GYG (in English) ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ The current members of the Steering Committee (in English)