International Citizen is returning to Australia for the primary version of International Citizen NOW in Melbourne on 4-6 March 2024, greater than a decade after the motion to finish excessive poverty was based there.
The occasion will deliver main voices from throughout the Asia-Pacific area for a robust three-day program of panels targeted on driving motion and impression to finish excessive poverty regionally and worldwide.
International CItizen NOW: Melbourne comes at a time when Australia and the Asia-Pacific area — 40 various nations spanning from Afghanistan to Fiji, and from Japan to Australia and past — are prone to being swept away by intensifying crises pushed by local weather change and COVID-19.
To handle this disaster head-on, International Citizen NOW can also be sponsoring 30 younger innovators working to deal with the problems perpetuating excessive poverty from throughout the Asia-Pacific area to attend the occasion via the Youth Leaders Award program.
Greater than 300 youth innovators can even attend the Melbourne program, becoming a member of forces with a few of the globe’s brightest minds all targeted on tackling the world’s most urgent challenges from the area.
From battling the local weather disaster to advocating for girls’s fairness, strengthening well being methods, addressing meals insecurity, and fostering youth-driven entrepreneurship, every panel at International Citizen NOW: Melbourne can be led by dialogue and debate grounded in motion on the United Nations’ International Targets.
Based in Australia in 2008 by Hugh Evans, Simon Moss, and Wei Soo, International Citizen started with one mission: finish excessive poverty in all its types world wide. What started because the very first “Finish Polio Live performance” in Perth Australia in 2008, is as we speak a world motion of motion takers from world wide.
“We’re thrilled to deliver International Citizen NOW to Australia, and to supply a novel platform the place younger innovators will take their place alongside leaders in coverage, tradition, philanthropy, and enterprise to drive impactful, sustainable change and tackle the worldwide challenges shaping tomorrow,” stated International Citizen Co-Founder and CEO Hugh Evans. “The Asia-Pacific area sits on the epicentre of a few of the world’s most urgent emergencies, however younger persons are not the passive inheritors of those challenges – they’re energetic change-makers with a significant position to play.”
A few of the individuals attending this 12 months embody Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York; Xanana Gusmão, Prime Minister of Timor-Leste; Ban Ki-moon, eighth Secretary-Basic of the United Nations; Peter Thomson, UN Particular Envoy on Oceans; activist Brianna Fruean, Osher Günsberg, Mark Woodruff, and extra.
Extra individuals from the world of activism, leisure, and philanthropy can even be introduced within the weeks and months main as much as the March occasion.
As International Citizen returns to Australia, the place all of it started, the mission stays unchanged: to finish excessive poverty and encourage individuals to take motion globally to finish poverty now.
International Citizen NOW: Melbourne can be introduced by the State Authorities of Victoria and alongside proud companions together with Cisco, Citi, and P&G. The marketing campaign and coverage goals are additionally supported by Invoice and Melinda Gates Basis, Ford Basis, Rotary Worldwide, Uniting to Fight NTDs, Overseas Neighborhood Coverage Indonesia, and Safer World For All.
The summit will conclude with International Citizen Nights, an intimate, dwell music occasion honouring the tales of younger trailblazers from throughout the Asia-Pacific area who’re profoundly impacting their native communities within the areas of local weather motion, gender fairness and extra. The occasion will happen on the Palais Theatre on St Kilda’s foreshore on 6 March, headlined by the long-lasting Crowded Home, with extra artists to be introduced. Begin taking motion now to earn your free tickets!
International Citizen acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin nation, the Conventional House owners of the unceded land on which International Citizen NOW: Melbourne and International Citizen Nights can be held, and pays respect to their Elders previous, current, and rising.