World LGBTQ Summit

Posted October 28th, 2011 by gregnelson
Closing Date: 
Sat 31st Dec 2011
Opportunity Type: 
Event
State: 
Not Applicable
More Information Link: 
http://lgbtqsummit.org/

The International LGBTQ Youth Leaders' Summit is a professional six-day seminar. A hundred young leaders will participate, coming from Europe, the United States, Asia, Africa and Latin America. We perform outreach to bring LGBTQ leaders from countries that persecute them for their identities and beliefs. The seminar will focus on providing useful tools for creating and leading social change. The seminar will train the next generation of leaders of the international LGBTQ community for social activism and create a strong network of global leaders who share common causes.

By bringing these young leaders and leaders-to-be to Israel, we also introduce them to the complex and fascinating mosaic of Israeli society, and show how an LGBTQ community can thrive even under social pressures, religious extremism and political tensions.

The six-day seminar, named "World LGBTQ Youth Leadership Summit", will start on December 4th, and will be hosted by IGY in Tel Aviv.

The summit, conceived by IGY and held for the first time, aims at bringing young LGBTQ leaders from around the world, to promote LGBTQ rights, and to create a worldwide network of activists that will work together for this cause.

Furthermore, this summit will supply its participants with tools for activism, that IGY hopes will help the young leaders promote their causes in their origin countries. The seminar will include workshops and lectures in various topics such as media training, innovative ways of campaigning and debating.

"The seminar will focus on providing useful tools for creating and leading social change", says Avner Dafni, Executive Director of IGY. "It will train the next generation of leaders of the international LGBTQ community for social activism".

"We would like to create a strong network of global leaders who share common causes", adds Nir Zernyak, Global Affairs Director in IGY, "but along with this, we would like to have added values such as promoting women leadership and exposing the participants to various LGBTQ related and human rights struggles from other countries - we would like to see a young activist from the USA learning about the situation of LGBTQ people in Uganda from a local activist, not only by reading about it online".

Dafni: "We find great importance in bringing together activists from Israel and Palestine, who never have the chance to meet, and find creative ways of cooperation despite the differences. We welcome the debate on this 'hot' issue".

To apply for a place visit: http://lgbtqsummit.org/apply/

 

 
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Opportunity Type: 
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Closing Date: 
Sat 31st Dec 2011
Organisation Name: 
Israel Gay Youth
State: 
Not Applicable
More Information Link: 
http://lgbtqsummit.org/
Opportunity Overview: 
The summit, conceived by IGY and held for the first time, aims at bringing young LGBTQ leaders from around the world, to promote LGBTQ rights, and to create a worldwide network of activists that will work together for this cause.

The International LGBTQ Youth Leaders' Summit is a professional six-day seminar. A hundred young leaders will participate, coming from Europe, the United States, Asia, Africa and Latin America. We perform outreach to bring LGBTQ leaders from countries that persecute them for their identities and beliefs. The seminar will focus on providing useful tools for creating and leading social change. The seminar will train the next generation of leaders of the international LGBTQ community for social activism and create a strong network of global leaders who share common causes.

By bringing these young leaders and leaders-to-be to Israel, we also introduce them to the complex and fascinating mosaic of Israeli society, and show how an LGBTQ community can thrive even under social pressures, religious extremism and political tensions.

The six-day seminar, named "World LGBTQ Youth Leadership Summit", will start on December 4th, and will be hosted by IGY in Tel Aviv.

The summit, conceived by IGY and held for the first time, aims at bringing young LGBTQ leaders from around the world, to promote LGBTQ rights, and to create a worldwide network of activists that will work together for this cause.

Furthermore, this summit will supply its participants with tools for activism, that IGY hopes will help the young leaders promote their causes in their origin countries. The seminar will include workshops and lectures in various topics such as media training, innovative ways of campaigning and debating.

"The seminar will focus on providing useful tools for creating and leading social change", says Avner Dafni, Executive Director of IGY. "It will train the next generation of leaders of the international LGBTQ community for social activism".

"We would like to create a strong network of global leaders who share common causes", adds Nir Zernyak, Global Affairs Director in IGY, "but along with this, we would like to have added values such as promoting women leadership and exposing the participants to various LGBTQ related and human rights struggles from other countries - we would like to see a young activist from the USA learning about the situation of LGBTQ people in Uganda from a local activist, not only by reading about it online".

Dafni: "We find great importance in bringing together activists from Israel and Palestine, who never have the chance to meet, and find creative ways of cooperation despite the differences. We welcome the debate on this 'hot' issue".

To apply for a place visit: http://lgbtqsummit.org/apply/

 

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The International LGBTQ Youth Leaders' Summit is a professional six-day seminar. A hundred young leaders will participate, coming from Europe, the United States, Asia, Africa and Latin America. We perform outreach to bring LGBTQ leaders from countries that persecute them for their identities and beliefs. The seminar will focus on providing useful tools for creating and leading social change. The seminar will train the next generation of leaders of the international LGBTQ community for social activism and create a strong network of global leaders who share common causes.

By bringing these young leaders and leaders-to-be to Israel, we also introduce them to the complex and fascinating mosaic of Israeli society, and show how an LGBTQ community can thrive even under social pressures, religious extremism and political tensions.

The six-day seminar, named "World LGBTQ Youth Leadership Summit", will start on December 4th, and will be hosted by IGY in Tel Aviv.

The summit, conceived by IGY and held for the first time, aims at bringing young LGBTQ leaders from around the world, to promote LGBTQ rights, and to create a worldwide network of activists that will work together for this cause.

Furthermore, this summit will supply its participants with tools for activism, that IGY hopes will help the young leaders promote their causes in their origin countries. The seminar will include workshops and lectures in various topics such as media training, innovative ways of campaigning and debating.

"The seminar will focus on providing useful tools for creating and leading social change", says Avner Dafni, Executive Director of IGY. "It will train the next generation of leaders of the international LGBTQ community for social activism".

"We would like to create a strong network of global leaders who share common causes", adds Nir Zernyak, Global Affairs Director in IGY, "but along with this, we would like to have added values such as promoting women leadership and exposing the participants to various LGBTQ related and human rights struggles from other countries - we would like to see a young activist from the USA learning about the situation of LGBTQ people in Uganda from a local activist, not only by reading about it online".

Dafni: "We find great importance in bringing together activists from Israel and Palestine, who never have the chance to meet, and find creative ways of cooperation despite the differences. We welcome the debate on this 'hot' issue".

To apply for a place visit: http://lgbtqsummit.org/apply/

 

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Sat 31st Dec 2011
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Israel Gay Youth
State: 
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More Information Link: 
http://lgbtqsummit.org/
Opportunity Overview: 
The summit, conceived by IGY and held for the first time, aims at bringing young LGBTQ leaders from around the world, to promote LGBTQ rights, and to create a worldwide network of activists that will work together for this cause.

The International LGBTQ Youth Leaders' Summit is a professional six-day seminar. A hundred young leaders will participate, coming from Europe, the United States, Asia, Africa and Latin America. We perform outreach to bring LGBTQ leaders from countries that persecute them for their identities and beliefs. The seminar will focus on providing useful tools for creating and leading social change. The seminar will train the next generation of leaders of the international LGBTQ community for social activism and create a strong network of global leaders who share common causes.

By bringing these young leaders and leaders-to-be to Israel, we also introduce them to the complex and fascinating mosaic of Israeli society, and show how an LGBTQ community can thrive even under social pressures, religious extremism and political tensions.

The six-day seminar, named "World LGBTQ Youth Leadership Summit", will start on December 4th, and will be hosted by IGY in Tel Aviv.

The summit, conceived by IGY and held for the first time, aims at bringing young LGBTQ leaders from around the world, to promote LGBTQ rights, and to create a worldwide network of activists that will work together for this cause.

Furthermore, this summit will supply its participants with tools for activism, that IGY hopes will help the young leaders promote their causes in their origin countries. The seminar will include workshops and lectures in various topics such as media training, innovative ways of campaigning and debating.

"The seminar will focus on providing useful tools for creating and leading social change", says Avner Dafni, Executive Director of IGY. "It will train the next generation of leaders of the international LGBTQ community for social activism".

"We would like to create a strong network of global leaders who share common causes", adds Nir Zernyak, Global Affairs Director in IGY, "but along with this, we would like to have added values such as promoting women leadership and exposing the participants to various LGBTQ related and human rights struggles from other countries - we would like to see a young activist from the USA learning about the situation of LGBTQ people in Uganda from a local activist, not only by reading about it online".

Dafni: "We find great importance in bringing together activists from Israel and Palestine, who never have the chance to meet, and find creative ways of cooperation despite the differences. We welcome the debate on this 'hot' issue".

To apply for a place visit: http://lgbtqsummit.org/apply/

 

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