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SUA - COUNCIL OF EUROPE PROJECT WIN AND UNITED
NATIONS SESSION COMING SOON
Some more great news from Syriac Universal Alliance (SUA)!
Shlomo!
Daniel Gabriel
COUNCIL OF EUROPE PROJECT APPROVED
The SUA has just received written confirmation from the Council
of Europe's Directorate General IV: Education, Cultural and
Heritage, Youth and Sport, that our Directorate's Youth project
application, entitled "First International Aramean Young
Leadership Training Programme: The Road to the Future" has been
approved by the Programming Committee of the European Youth
Centre and the European Youth Foundation.
This Global Youth event will take place in 2011 and will be held
in Strasbourg, France. It will include 30 youth working together
for 6 days with experts in their respective fields discussing
issues of concern to the Aramean people.
Two primary aims of the event (amongst many others) will be to:
1. initiate and develop Aramean youth leadership so that young
Arameans can learn more about their fundamental human rights and
minority rights, will share their knowledge with their peers at
home and (if necessary) apply their individual and collective
human rights;
2. guide Aramean youth leaders in the process of reflection upon
their distinct identity and to assist them in contextualizing
their identity within the different societies they live in.
There are many people to thank here and we will send out further
information soon but this is a tremendous award for the SUA and
it will be a great event for all involved.
UNITED NATIONS EXPERT MECHANISM ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS
PEOPLES
The SUA also wishes to announce that two members of the SUA, Mr
Basil Oezkaya and Ms Shamiram Youssef, will be attending the
Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP)
Session at the Geneva United Nations office in Geneva. The
session will be held from 12-16 July. This mechanism has been
created by the Human Rights Council in order to protect
Indigenous Populations.
We wish both Ms Youssef and Mr Oezkaya the best of luck in their
meetings at the United Nations office as they seek to promote
and protect the interests of the Aramean (Syriac) people.
May God bless both of them! The SUA will report further on the
event shortly.
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