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INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP

The Working Group is composed of six youth leaders in democracy - members of the World Movement for Democracy who were involved in the founding of the Youth Movement. The working group currently operates as the advisory board and steering committee for the YMD. At the first global assembly of the Youth Movement for Democracy, members will nominate and vote for the new members of the committee and futher develop the democratization of decision-making within the movement. ZAW ZAW (Burma) has recently taken up residence in India as an exile. He works for Burma Project/OSI. He left his country in 1991 when he was in 16 years old, fearing arrest by the military government of Burma that seized power 1988. He had been active in a student movement seeking the restoration of democracy and asking the military regime to honor the results of the 1990 general elections, which Noble Laureate Aung San Suu Kuu Kyi's party National League for Democracy is believed to have legitimately won. He attended the Third WMD General Assembly in Durban, South Africa in February 2004, and has had ongoing contact with the National Endowment for Democracy, one of primary funding agencies for democracy building in Burma. HERBERT BOH (Cameroon) is a leading journalist with more than 20 years of experience in print and broadcast media. He previously worked for the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa in Lome, Togo, where he helped media practitioners sustain freedom of the press in situations of armed conflict. He seeks to promote free speech, professional ethics, and the delivery of unbiased, non-incendiary information by the African media, especially public radio and television. As a fellow of the National Endowment for Democracy, Boh developed strategies for improving access to information on human rights and democracy in Africa, notably through the establishment of an online newswire service, and has given presentations on practical ways in which Africans can reform the media sector to deliver reliable information on human rights, accountability, and good governance in Africa. Boh currently works as a communications officer for the World Bank, and continues to promote democracy in African through his involvement with the Youth Movement for Democracy. TAPERA KAPUYA (Zimbabwe), 25, is strongly involved in the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe. Born on 28 March 1980, he became a student leader at the University of Zimbabwe in 2000, but was expelled from the university for his political activities late in 2001. He is currently involved in the establishment of a Youth Democracy Resource Centre in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, which will likely become a local chapter of the YMD. He is now completing his law studies with the University of KwaZulu Natal in Durban, South Africa, and serves as the Africa Regional Representative of the International Union of Students. ANDREY YUROV (Russia) a participant in non-formal youth movements since 1983, began his human rights activism in 1987, when he joined the Free Union of Literary Workers and Journalists. Since then, he has been very active in the Russian movement for human rights and democracy as president of the Russian Confederation of Free Labor Unions, coordinator for the opening of the Public Consulting Service on Human Rights and Civic Center Open Society, coordinator of educational programs for the Free University, and founder and leader of the Youth Human Rights Movement. In 2001, he was elected as a member of the Advisory Council of CoE Youth Sector and Monitoring Group of the Youth Program on Human Rights Education, and is presently a member of the Trainers Pool of CoE Youth Sector. Author of many articles and speeches about the development of the non-governmental sector and the human rights movement in Russia, he is also a literary man, and has written poems, prose, plays, and essays. CRISTINA MIRANDA COSTA (Brazil), also known as "Kika," is a lawyer and networker. She was a chief organizer of the World Movement for Democracy's Second Assembly, in Brazil in November of 2000. She has a long history working with youth and NGOs. She was a Rotary International exchange student in Denmark, consulted with Instituto Pro-Ação in Sao Paulo - Brazil, and worked at the city's state run juvenile detention center: FEBEM. Recently Kika has also consulted different Brazilian corporations and government institutions in the development of their social responsibility, social investment, and leadership training programs. RYOTA JONEN (Japan) is an ex-officio member of the Working Group. He has been with the World Movement for Democracy since February 2000. As an Assistant Project Manager at the World Movement's Secretariat, the National Endowment for Democracy, he helps develop networks and facilitates discussion on democracy issues among democracy activists in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Before joining the World Movement, he assisted various grass-roots groups in organizing conferences and planning human rights education programs. He has been involved with various international peace activities, including the Hague Appeal for Peace and the International Peace Bureau, for whom he organized a peace education conference in Geneva. He has been a visiting speaker on post-conflict peacebuilding and human rights for high schools and non-governmental organizations in Liberia as well as for American University in Washington, DC. His main research interests, oh which he has conducted extensive researches in Switzerland and Liberia, include disarmament, human rights and post-conflict peacebuilding, with particular emphasis on reconciliation. His article on post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation in Liberia was published in Peace Research, a Canadian journal of peace studies. He holds Bachelor of Art in Political Science and International Studies and Master of Art in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University in Washington, D.C.

SECRETARIAT

The secretariat provides international coordination for the movement by organizing the Global Youth Democracy Campaign, hosting the YMD website, and putting on international meetings for young democracy activists. The Global Youth Action Network took on the role of Secretariat to the YMD earlier this year. Founded in 1999, GYAN is today one of the most expansive youth networks in the world and has developed partnerships with youth organizations in nearly 200 countries. GYAN's mission is to facilitate youth participation and intergenerational partnership in global decision-making processes; to support collaboration among diverse youth organizations; and to provide tools, resources, and recognition for positive youth action to change the world. This mission guides GYAN as it serves as an incubator for diverse youth movements and initiatives around the globe. GYAN works in partnership with TakingITGlobal to manage the largest on-line community for young activists on the Internet. The TIG community has over 60,000 members from nearly 190 countries and receives more than 1,500,000 hits per day. YMD Secretariat activities are based out of GYAN's South America Regional Headquarters in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Executive Coordinator JONAH WITTKAMPER, born in 1974, is a biologist, a technologist, and a networker. He builds relationships and through them facilitates collaboration among diverse social movements. His activism of integration began in 1993 when he attended an international youth leadership seminar hosted by Camp Rising Sun and met young leaders from 35 different countries. Since that time he has been involved in the creation of numerous youth projects involving Accenture, Sadhana Solutions, IEARN, Global Youth Connect, Artemisia Foundation, ManyOne Foundation, L A Jonas Foundation, Nation1, Pioneers of Change, World Social Forum, and the UN system among many others. He speaks three languages, has participated in 100+ international gatherings as a speaker or facilitator, and has visited more than 40 countries. He now works as the South American Regional Director of the Global Youth Action Network in Sao Paulo, Brazil. As Secretariat Coordinator of the Youth Movement for Democracy, Jonah brings his long experience with networking and youth engagement to the support of youth democracy activism. Assistant Coordinator ANDREA DES MARAIS, 24, is the Campaigns Coordinator for the South American Regional Office of GYAN. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she has been involved with youth activism since the age of 14 - participating in LGBT rights lobbying in the California senate, leading diversity-appreciation workshops at her high school, and organizing a weeklong environmental conference at her university. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in international economics and development, specializing in poverty and trade. Since then, helping activists organize has become her passion, first through her work with the Peoples' Health Movement in the United States, and now with GYAN in Brazil. Before joining the YMD team, her work for GYAN included serving on the secretariat for the First African Youth Conference Against Hunger, organizing a program to bring together youth leaders from Brazil and other countries, and developing an Engagement Strategy for Youth in Trade. In addition to her native English, Andrea speaks Spanish and Portuguese. Events Coordinator Julia Forlani, 21, has a technical degree in Hospitality Management and is currently completing her bachelors degree in International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo. At 14 she helped found the Organism Project, a youth movement that rose awareness and provided environmental education through art, theatre performances, lectures, research, and workshops. She also worked with the Rehearsal Tube, an incubator of new artistic talents, and the Sarau Project, a space for spontaneous artistic expression. Moreover, she has participated in all the Brazilian World Social Forums, working as part of a facilitation and documentation team during the first two. Currently she does work together with ISPIS, Synchronicity Institute for Social Integration, an organization that provides Education for Sustainability. She is responsible for projects relating to a "Culture for social transformation." Director of Projects JEFFERSON SOOMA grew up in a favela in Santo Andre, Brazil, near Sao Paulo. His activism began with his work in sex education and student organizing as a teenager. Soon he returned to the neighborhood where he was born and founded a community center with a group of friends. With time and support from his university, he developed RevolutionArte, a festival for lesser known artists, mostly from social movements, to show their talents. He has acted as a consultant on social projects for the corporations Petrobras and ARMCO Brazil. From 2002 through 2003, he headed the youth agency of the mayor's office in Santo Andre. During this time, he developed the WWW.Jovem project to bridge the digital divide, the Youth Reference Center space for project development and political participation, and "Graffiti - Our Part", a program celebrating the artistic contributions of youth that has been recognized by UN Habitat is a best practice. Jefferson majored in sociology at his university and also works as a professional musician. His band, K-Ram-K, is celebrated for its "mixturalism" style.