August 28th, 2018 by Zobaidur Rahman Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
“Will the SDGs be achieved by 2030?” asked by a young participant to the panelists in the last session of International Youth Forum on Human Rights and SDGs (IYFNepal2018) organized in Nepal on 17-18 August 2018 with the purpose of partnering with the youth to implement and achieve Human rights and SDGs. The answer for this question summed up in one word which is “HOPE”. We cannot achieve anything as long as we hope and dream of it.
There were more than two hundred students, young lawyers, entrepreneurs, humanitarian workers and human right workers from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippine and South Africa to attend the youth forum. Twenty-four international speakers including policy maker, academic, human rights activists, world bank etc. were there to work with young people for a solution towards “moving from policies to actions” in achieving the SDG.
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