So that young people's voices may be part of this process, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and UNICEF, with support from other UN agencies and regional organizations in small island developing states (SIDS) areas, are supporting a process for young people to share their issues, envision the future they want, and participate in developing the outcomes of the Apia 2014 Global Conference. Two-hundred young islanders, aged from twelve to thirty years old, will be given the opportunity to take part in three workshops of six days each. The meetings will take place between June and July in Jamaica, the Fiji Islands and the Seychelles. The Third SIDS Conference, which will be held in 2014, will take place twenty years after the UN Member States gathered for the first time in Barbados in order to identify new challenges and specific needs of SIDS.  

dates: 4-9 July 2013   location: Fiji   additional: Nadi   www: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/priority-areas/sids/single-view-small-island/news/my_world_my_sids_unesco_and_unicef_give_the_floor_to_young_islanders/