World Youth Movement for Democracy

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SECRETARIAT

The secretariat provides international coordination for the movement by organizing the Global Youth Democracy Campaign, managing the WYMD website and mailing lists, and promoting international events and programs to strengthen the network.
It is hosted by the Kiev, Ukraine office of the Youth Human Rights Movement, a community of people from different countries (at present – more than 30 states), young (by passport or by soul), for whom Human Rights and individual dignity are crucial values. Members of the network are united to support each other in defending and promoting these values, to share ideas, to arrange joint actions and to form new generation of civil activists.
Executive Secretary - ANNA DOBROVOLSKAYA, from International service of the International Youth Human Rights Movement, lives between Russia and Ukraine working for YHRM in Voronezh and Kiev.
Assistant Secretary - KOSTANTIN BARANOV, from Youth Civil Congress and "Young Europe", has been involved into WYMD activities for about a year, in charge of Russian-speaking participants and programs of the WYMD. Konstantin is from Russia.

Regional Coordinator, CEE & NIS - ANASTASIA NIKITINA has been involved for the past year in organizing regional activities for the WYMD. She also acts as a regular consultant to the Secreatiat.

ALEXANDRA MATVIYCHUK works in Kiev for International Youth Centre "Human Rights and Democracy" (a partner structure of YHRM in Ukraine). She is assisting with the planning for WYMD presence at the upcoming World Movement for Democracy Assembly in Kiev.

The secretariat was hosted from 2005 to mid-2007 by the Global Youth Action Network, one of the most expansive youth networks in the world with 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.