On International Youth Day, UN celebrating young peoples role in ousting dictators

12 August 2011 – Two teenagers’ powerful pleas from the imagined standpoint of a tree to save the world’s forests beat out two million competitors to win gold medals today in the United Nations International Letter-Writing Competition for Young People. Charlée Gittens from Barbados, writing as a great oak in Guyana’s Windsor Forest, and 13-year-old Wang Sa from China, in the voice of an observant small tree ‘prepared to care for humanity,’ were declared victors in the 40th UN Universal .... [More]