ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Julian A. Hettihewa

Julian A. Hettihewa is a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Institute for Public International Law, University of Bonn. He is also a visiting student at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford.

POSTS BY Julian A. Hettihewa

12 August 2021

Navigating an Ocean of Information

Since 1982, States have sent Youth Delegates to the General Assembly as part of the official UN Youth Delegate Programme. However, information on youth delegates, their past agendas and speeches is hard to come by. There is no central repository that is publicly available and would list all past youth delegates and the statements they delivered. In order to close this gap, we have created Youth Delegate Search, a platform dedicated to making speeches of Youth Delegates easily accessible. We believe that with this database we also created a potential for transforming both academic research and practice in the domain of youth participation. Continue reading >>