- By Sandra van Beest, Youth Representative to the United Nations, 2007-2008.
As youth representative of the Netherlands I have had the opportunity to represent Dutch young people at the United Nations. Through writing proposals for UN resolutions, negotiating to get the proposals in the UN Resolutions and through addressing the General Assembly, I hope I did my peers justice. When I was in New York however, most of the topics that were discussed concerned young people in developing countries who make up 80% of the world’s youth. Yet they were hardly represented at the UN.
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