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TANZANIA INTERNATIONAL MODEL UNITED NATION - TIMUN 2021
Photo Credit: Dr. Hortencia Nuhu - Chairperson of YUNA Tanzania
150 young people from 16 countries (Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Sudan, the United Kingdom and Togo) participated in the Tanzania International Model United Nations – TIMUN 2021 organized by the Youth of United Nations Association (YUNA) Tanzania from 23 - 26, August 2021 at the Institute of Tourism (Maruhubi), Zanzibar. The theme of the conference is: “Youth engagement towards the
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realization of the Sustainable development Goals Decade of Action”. For 24 years, the Youth of United Nations Association (YUNA) Tanzania has been organizing this conference aimed at empowering Tanzanian and non-Tanzanian youth between the ages of 18 - 30 on leadership and diplomacy issues. The participants, apart from representing the various member states of the UN, should also explain in detail the
strategies being taken by those countries in implementing international agreements including the 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development Goals. In a 3-day conference in Zanzibar, young people discussed in depth their participation in the SDGs decade of action and came up with resolutions in four thematic areas: Healthy Nations with youth on steering wheel; Critical Youth Skills towards 2030, Empowered Youth
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