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STORY: PORTUGAL / ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS YOUTH
TRT: 03:48
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / PORTUGUESE / NATS
DATELINE: 23 - 25 NOVEMBER 2024, CASCAIS, PORTUGAL,
23 - 24 NOVEMBER 2024, CASCAIS, PORTUGAL
1. Various shots, people walking along the Atlantic Ocean
25 NOVEMBER 2024, FORTE DE SÃO JULIÃO DA BARRA NEAR CASCAIS, PORTUGAL
2. Wide shot, opening ceremony of the 10th Youth Forum of the UN Alliance of Civilizations
3. Wide shot, participants at the Youth Forum
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Miguel Ángel Moratinos, High Representative of the UN Alliance of Civilizations:
“Here we expect to really make a statement of 20 years of Alliance of Civilizations work and to look to the future, to restore trust among ourselves. To have a platform for everybody to contribute – any actor, any personality, have something to say, and then to work for alliance for peace, in order that we have a world for one humanity.”
6. Various shots, participants of the Youth Forum
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Lynda Nkechi Emmanuel, Participant from Nigeria:
“For me, I think the Youth Forum is a great opportunity. It is a fantastic one. And it’s a great platform that has given different youth globally an avenue to air your voice to be heard, not just in your locality and not just in your community, but globally.”
8. Wide shot, fort with Cascais in the background
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Shreya Jani, Participant from India:
“Language and meaning changes with your experience. And when you are listening to young people in Kashmir shooting guns, for a young person growing up in Delhi, shooting means phones. And so, you have to just listen differently. You have to suspend all stereotypes or any preconceived notion that you may have when you listen to people in different contexts. And it's that what made me realise that the work that we are doing in Manipur and Kashmir, it will have to be creative, it will be through photography, it will be through theatre, it would be through music, it would be through astronomy, so that we could have conversations and create a common language of exploration and curiosity.”
10. Wide shot, participants at the Fort
11. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) João Pedro Soares, Participant from Brazil:
“I'm using Brazil as an example, where you can see there is prejudice against religions of African origin. Not just them specifically, but all religions different from Catholicism. We bring this up because we want to send a message to people all over the world, not just in Brazil: that these religions are entitled to have their space.”
19. Pan, Closure reception of the Youth Forum onto ocean
Youth took centre stage today (25 Nov) on the opening day of the UN Alliance of Civilizations 10th Global Forum in Cascais, Portugal, where more than 150 youth delegations gathered at the historic military Forte de São Julião da Barra with messages of peace, intercultural understanding and unity.
Miguel Ángel Moratinos, High Representative of the UN Alliance of Civilizations, opened the Youth Forum.
During these turbulent times, his message to young people was to maintain their drive toward peace, saving the planet and addressing technological challenges, like the spread of mis- and disinformation online and artificial intelligence (AI).
Moratinos said, “here we expect to really make a statement of 20 years of Alliance of Civilizations work and to look to the future, to restore trust among ourselves. To have a platform for everybody to contribute – any actor, any personality, have something to say, and then to work for alliance for peace, in order that we have a world for one humanity.”
Lynda Nkechi Emmanuel works in northwestern Nigeria, where violence and kidnapping are daily realities.
She said, “for me, I think the Youth Forum is a great opportunity. It is a fantastic one. And it’s a great platform that has given different youth globally an avenue to air your voice to be heard, not just in your locality and not just in your community, but globally.”
Throughout the day, young people exchanged stories about how they are fostering peace in their communities around the world, from empowering women in conflict-stricken northwestern Nigeria to deradicalizing youth in Jammu and Kashmir and Manipur.
Shreya Jani, a peace education consultant from India, has been benefitting from the Alliance’s workshops and programmes for 15 years. While she says she is old now, she continues to build peace, from Kabul to Jammu and Kashmir.
Jani said, “language and meaning changes with your experience,” adding that “you have to suspend all stereotypes or any preconceived notion that you may have when you listen to people in different contexts.”
She said, “the work that we are doing in Manipur and Kashmir, it will have to be creative, it will be through photography, it will be through theatre, it would be through music, it would be through astronomy, so that we could have conversations and create a common language of exploration and curiosity.”
Once the Youth Forum wrapped up, delegates moved to the Estoril Conference Centre for the PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival. Second graders to young adults were among the directors of 32 films recognised at this 2024 festival, sponsored by the Alliance and the UN International Organization for Migration.
Telling stories from around the world on the themes of migration, diversity and inclusion, these young filmmakers tackled topics from battling discrimination against autistic people to bullying.
The teenaged producers of Deuses Distintos (Different Gods) shared their excitement for the festival’s special recognition for combating xenophobia and discrimination.
Ana Júlia Freitas, Anne Isabely Farias, Joanna Macedo, Anna Clara Soares, Dafny Lorena dos Santos, Bárbara Cristina Oliveira and João Pedro Soares along with their teacher, Ana Gúlia De Castro, underlined the importance of embracing the rich religious diversity of Brazil.
Young producer João Pedro Soares said, “I'm using Brazil as an example, where you can see there is prejudice against religions of African origin. Not just them specifically, but all religions different from Catholicism. We bring this up because we want to send a message to people all over the world, not just in Brazil: that these religions are entitled to have their space.”
