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November 2007 update on new publications, actions you can take, and more!
Advocates for Youth's e-News Update
Success Stories
Urban Retreat 2007
 "This has been an amazing experience that I will remember for the rest of my life." - Urban Retreat participant
October 2007 marked Advocates for Youth's sixth year conducting its intensive youth activist training institute, the Urban Retreat. The Retreat is an annual event bringing together youth activists and peer educators from across the country. Approximately 70 young people ages 13 to 24 attended this three-day training and networking session to develop their leadership and advocacy skills. In attendance at this year's event was the Advocates' International Youth Leadership Council, Young Women of Color Leadership Council, Campus and High School Organizers, and State Youth Activists and peer educators from Advocates' MySistahs and YouthResource Web sites.
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Youth Activists in London!
Members of Advocates for Youth's International Youth Leadership Council (IYLC) attended "Women Deliver,"; an international conference held in London from October 18-20th. The conference focused on efforts to improve the health of women, mothers and newborn babies around the world. IYLC's Haben, Andrew, Lesley and Brian participated in workshops, networked with other youth activists, and worked with the media to ensure that young peoples' voices were a part of the greater dialogue. They also blogged about their experiences for RhRealityCheck.org.
For Youth, By Youth
World AIDS Day 2007
According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 39.5 million people living with HIV, including 2.3 million children, and during 2006 some 4.3 million people became newly infected with the virus. Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35.
Around 95% of people with HIV/AIDS live in developing nations. But HIV today is a threat to men, women and children on all continents around the world.
Getting "the Talk"
By High School Organizer, Amelia
Believe it or not, I never got "The Talk" from my parents. You know the one, where your mom or dad sits you down and explains the birds and the bees, once and for all? Well, my parents took a slightly different approach. They started when I was just a little girl. I used to have a book on my shelf, right between Charlotte's Web and The Cat in the Hat, titled How Babies Are Made. To read more, click here.
Eliminating Violence Against Women
Support the International White Ribbon Day, November 25th
By Campus Organizer, Diana
As the days drew near to White Ribbon Day, an international day of awareness for the elimination of violence against women, I began to reflect on the current state of the woman. I noticed her accomplishments, as well as her setbacks. I acknowledged her strides towards equality, and I frown at those who make her life any more difficult then it already is. There are traditional women, who often live their lives in reflection of their grandmothers and great-grandmothers, and there are revolutionary women, who are independent, and step outside the boundaries of social identities. Whoever she is, whether a mother, sister, aunt, friend, or stranger, the woman is to be respected physically, sexually, and psychologically by others. To read more, click here.
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