LY International

Welcome to the International section of Liberal Youth!

Here you will find updates on International activity, events and campaigns.

Liberal Youth are affiliated to LYMEC (European Liberal Youth) and IFLRY (International Federation of Liberal Youth). We run our international campaigns and events alongside these organisations, who represent over 300,000 Young Liberals across the world.

If you are interested in becoming involved in Liberal Youth International please contact either:

Harriet Ainscough (IFLRY Coordinator)
harriet.ainscough@liberalyouth.org

Samuel Fisk (LYMEC Coordinator)
sam.fisk@liberalyouth.org.

Email us and follow on twitter (@LYinternational) to receive regular Liberal Youth International updates.

We’ve got a campaign up and running on prisoners of conscience / political prisoners. Find out more here!

In Arendal, the fight back for democracy begins

In July, Norway was rocked by an unimaginable atrocity when a far-right extremist detonated a car bomb in Oslo city centre, killing 8, before arriving on the retreat island of Utoya, and massacring over 60 members of the AUF, the youth wing of the Norwegian Labour Party. For a politically innocent country not really used to any kind of terrorism, the scale of the tragedy and its impact was inconceivable. Only a week later, Unge Venstre (NUV), Liberal Youth’s sister party in Norway, held their annual Summer Camp in the similarly quiet setting...

How does the EU benefit Britain’s Youth?

With the UK’s relationship with the EU firmly in the spotlight this week, LY International takes a look at how the EU benefits the youth of Britain…. Youth employment – Almost 3.5 million jobs in the UK are dependent on trade with the EU. Pulling out would lose contract deals and cost companies more to export to the European continent. As the recent economic slump has already shown, when unemployment rises the youth are hit hardest. Leaving the EU would affect the livelihoods of many young people across the country....

Liberal Youth welcome Nick Clegg on Belarus

Liberal Youth welcome the article written by Nick Clegg in the Independent newspaper yesterday, as well as his broadcast on European Radio for Belarus in support of political campaigners in Belarus and putting pressure on Lukashenko’s regime. Liberal Youth welcome these acts of solidarity by Nick Clegg, including his meeting with exiled opposition leaders and dissidents in Warsaw, Poland, this week. The political crisis in Belarus grows worse each week with the brutal oppression of liberal campaigners, many of them young, along with an...

LY International on the BBC

Both Liberal Youth International Officers recently had the opportunity to speak on the recent Palestine bid for full U.N membership to the BBC World Service radio station. Harriet Ainscough recorded an audioboo which was circulated around the BBC World Service media sites. You can listen here: http://audioboo.fm/boos/475820-harriet-liberal-youth Samuel Fisk took part in the BBC World Service show “World Have Your Say”, where he discussed Palestine with a live audience including Martin Horwood MP, Chris Davies MEP and Lord Palmer. The event...

LYMEC Congress & Seminar, Barcelona

We are pleased to invite you to LYMEC’s Autumn Congress, which will take place in Barcelona, from 4th to 6th November 2011. We are also pleased to invite you to a seminar preceding our Congress about immigration policies and demographic change that will be take place from 2nd to 4th of November in Barcelona. During our Congress we will be discussing different resolutions and motions, possible changes of LYMEC’s statutes, membership applications as well as our plans for the year 2012. Detailed agenda of the Congress will be sent to you in...