Motion · S5M-23943 · 22 Jan 2021

PACEY 2021 Youth Awards

Lodged by Bill Kidd Standard Motion 12 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament notes the two winning projects at the PACEY 2021 Youth Awards, which are global awards supporting youth-led initiatives for peace, nuclear abolition and climate change; notes that the wining projects were Towards the Enforcement of the Right to Peace from the Platform for Peace and Humanity in Slovakia, which advocates in countries, as well as at the UN, to strengthen the Right to Peace as a human and legal right, and the World’s Youth for Climate Justice (Global), which is a youth-led campaign to achieve an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on international obligations in order to protect current and future generations; acknowledges the words of Prof (Emeritus) Andreas Nidecker MD, President of the Basel Peace Office and founder of the PACEY Awards that "youth clearly see the threats to current and future generations and are taking action now", and congratulates all involved in both winning projects, as well as the four runners-up out of the 250 youth activists and civil society representatives from 45 countries that participated in the awards.

Supporters (12)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.