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Here Comes the Heart Power for Rio+20!!
Watch Rio+20 Global Youth Music Contest submissions from young people from all around the world!
Listen to at least five submissions and Vote for your favorite songs at
(Voting will be possible till 14 May 2012)
- Info Flyer - Rio+20 Global Youth Music Contest
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The Rio+20 Global Youth Music Contest is a global competition for young people organized by the International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges (IAAI) with a wide number of partners and youth networks on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (Rio+20 Earth Summit) to be held in June 2012 in Brazil. This opportunity encourages youth to express their hopes, concerns and thoughts on future of our earth through the resonance of music as a powerful expression that incites commitment for sustainable development. The contest will collect musical messages from global youth exploring global solutions for sustainable development and the winners will win a trip to Rio de Janeiro to attend the Rio+20 Earth Summit in June 2012 and make the voices of global youth heard through their music.
This is your chance to inspire, connect and mobilize yourself to energize effective global governance for sustainable development and support the work of the United Nations system.
Be creative ! Think global ! Have your say now ! Let the music talk, let the rhythm play and let the world know what the youth have to say !
Deadline to submit your music online is 18. March 2012 at midnight GMT.
You can find the Rio+20 GYMC Upload and Voting platform at www.global-rockstar.net
For more information please visit www.glocha.info and join us on Facebook and Twitter !
We believe in your creativity to make the world a better place to live!
For more information of the Rio+20 Global Youth Music Contest contact:
Jean Paul Brice Affana
Global Coordinator Rio+20 Global Youth Music Contest
Email: jeanpaul@ glocha.info | Website: www.glocha.info
Anam Gill
Outreach Coordinator Rio+20 Global Youth Music Contest
Email: anamgill@ glocha.info | Website: www.glocha.info
Miroslav Polzer
Secretary-general of IAAI
Email: polzer@ glocha.info| Website: www.glocha.info
Global Citizenship Ethics for Effective Global Governance – the Rio 2012 Window of Opportunity!
Global governance solely based on national governments and their coordination mechanisms is not sufficient anymore to cope with the magnitude of global challenges of our time. Resources of global civil society have to be integrated into global governance in order to harness the full potentials of wo&menkind for safeguarding our common future (especially in terms of knowledge and financial means for collaborative action but also in terms of coherence of individual choices and actions of global citizens that summed up constitute significant drivers of global challenges). People all around the world are concerned about the global problems, they know that their wellbeing will strongly be influenced by these global dimensions and they are willing to contribute their fair share to effective responses to these challenges on all relevant levels – thus contributing to effective global governance.
The concept of philanthropy – meaning donating money, goods, time, or effort for pursuing the common good or/and to support a charitable cause– is an important corrective to the mainstream of self interest focused market economy and consumerism which are among the root causes of many global environmental problems of 21st century.
There is an important role for philanthropy and global civic engagement to play in addressing global challenges and in building capacity for global societal changetowards more sustainability. In order for positive systemic integration of philanthropy in global governance to function in a coherent way, a shared vision of a range ofstakeholders is needed as well as there are needed new structures and processes for global cross-sectoral coordination. New institutional and legal frameworks for mobilization of resources of global civil society for global (especially environmental and economic) governance are needed and the UN Conference on Sustainable Development www.uncsd2012.org/ in Rio 2012 might be the window of opportunity of wo&menkind to achieve this paradigm shift.
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