Wednesday 24th October, during a lively night with a lot of known faces (among them Ruud Lubbers, Jan Pronk, Joris Luyendijk, Paul Rosenmöller, Kader Abdolah, Johann Olav Koss, Jornah Kiplagat and Bert Koenders), the new UN Youth Delegate for the Netherlands is voted Wouter Thiebou, a study mate of mine. (International Development Studies, Wageningen University).
Having to compete with two younger girls, he describes his winning as ‘helemaal toppie natuurlijk! Together with current UN Youth Delegate Sandra van Beest, he will work together the coming year to get clean drinkwater on the UN Agenda, and to give youths around the world a bigger voice in issues concerning i.e. security, human rights, climate, poverty, hunger, food security etc.
Read more on the Night of the UN website, see the NOS Headline, read the NRC article, or see Wouter’s website
photo: © nationale jeugdraad.
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