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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Le 10/11/03 21:28, « Amali De Silva » <amalidesilva@yahoo.com> a écrit :<BR>
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Hi Amali and everybody,<BR>
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I did think of the child but it seems to me that we still need to pass on a well developed message, as written collaboratively by civil society. And it has to be delivered in 5 minutes.<BR>
The youth caucus has been extraordinary during the prepcoms and seems to me to offer many possible “voices” to stand for us.<BR>
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Best<BR>
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Divina Frau-Meigs, <BR>
International Association for Media and Communications Research<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>The symbol of child / youth expressing the future of humanity is a good one - why not have a child / youth representative from each region of the world and the message delivered in the official languages of the UN ? It would be nice to include a child in the group.<BR>
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Amali De Silva-Mitchell,<BR>
Vice President, Vancouver Community Network, Canada<BR>
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<B><I>Meigs <meigs@wanadoo.fr></I></B> wrote:<BR>
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We do seem to have a problem to come to a consensus on the speaker we will<BR>
finally chose. Though i have expressed my own preference, i realize that may<BR>
be the solution has to be symbolical rather than personalized.<BR>
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How about:<BR>
1- we draft, via the content and themes group for instance, a declaration<BR>
that is comprehensive of the issues on which we have a general consensus but<BR>
remain problematic for the States.<BR>
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2- Then this common declaration would be read by two anonymous (by that<BR>
meaning not famous) YOUNG PEOPLE,-a young girl AND a young boy-, each saying<BR>
a sentence in turn, to express the trust of civil society in its sheer power<BR>
and its youth. <BR>
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Wouldn't this be an innovation in a world summit?<BR>
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It seems to me this would solve some problems with stardom, male or female<BR>
dominance, etc.<BR>
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All the best<BR>
Divina Frau-Meigs, IAMCR<BR>
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