University on Youth and Development
Since its first edition in 2000, the University on Youth and Development takes place once a year bringing together representatives of the youth organisations and youth movement from all over the world to discuss, train and be trained as well as to take political action around the main issues in the global agenda.
The University is an activity jointly organised by the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe, the Spanish Government (INJUVE), the European Youth Forum (YFJ), the Spanish Youth Council (CJE) and other international youth organisations. more...
Draft programme

2008 World Water Week - August 17-23
The World Water Week in Stockholm is the leading annual global meeting place for capacity-building, partnership-building and follow-up on the implementation of international processes and programmes in water and development. The theme of the week is Progress and Prospects on Water: For a Clean and Healthy World with Special Focus on Sanitation. …more

Celebrate International Youth Day on 12 August
The theme for this year’s International Youth Day is ‘YOUTH AND CLIMATE CHANGE: TIME FOR ACTION’. The selection of this theme for IYD 2008 is in recognition of the fact that climate change has already begun to devastate communities and deepen the effects of poverty and hunger. This situation complicates the challenges that youth face. However, young people are increasingly adding their voices to the call for action on climate change. more...

EU Slovenian Presidency - North-South Centre in Ljubljana 
The North-South Centre (NSC) participated in the EU Slovenian Presidency conference on Intercultural Dialogue & Development Education, organised by the Slovenian NGDO platform SLOGA in Ljubljana, 9-10 June.
During this conference the NSC presented in the plenary session the Global Education Guideline as well as the Global Education Recommendation process initiated in March 2008. Prior to SLOGA conference the NSC held the Global Education Week network evaluation seminar.

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Seminar on Cultural diversity and media
The seminar was organised in cooperation between the North-South Centre and the Council of Europe from 23 to 24 June in Lisbon, and was hosted by the Luso-american Foundation. This seminar was held in the frame of the new Council of Europe campaign against discrimination.

118^th  session of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers: a political agenda for the North-South Centre
. Summary note
. Council of Europe White Paper on Intercultural Dialogue
. Draft Memorandum of Understanding between the Council of Europe and the Alliance of Civilizations

Statement by the Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis on the occasion of the International Youth Day
Democratic values must be embraced not imposed “Democracy is resilient, but it is not irreversible. Protecting the values of democracy, human rights and the rule of law, which define and safeguard our freedom, requires constant effort and vigilance. This has always been the philosophy behind the Council of Europe work with young people. The objective is not to tell young people what to do and what to believe in, but to create the circumstances in which they can make up their own minds, set their own objectives and act to achieve them. The values of a truly free and democratic society must be embraced. They cannot be imposed.” more...

North-South Prize of the Council of Europe

The North-South Prize of the Council of Europe 2007 has been awarded to Mrs. Simone Veil, President of the Foundation for the Memory of Shoah, Former Minister of State of France and former President of the European Parliament and to Mr. Kofi Annan, former Secretary general of the United Nations, for their contribution to the defense and the promotion of the human rights throughout the world.

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Montenegro has joined the North-South Centre
In a letter addressed to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro expressed Montenegro readiness to accede to North-South Centre and Montenegro support for the work of the North-South Centre for providing a framework for European cooperation in the field of global interdependence issues. Montenegro is the nineteenth member state joining the North-South Centre, with effect from 1 March 2008.