Motion · S5M-23943 · 22 Jan 2021
PACEY 2021 Youth Awards
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)
- Fulton MacGregor Scottish National Party 23 Jan 2021
- Gil Paterson 23 Jan 2021
- James Dornan 24 Jan 2021
- Kenneth Gibson No Party Affiliation 24 Jan 2021
- Stuart McMillan Scottish National Party 25 Jan 2021
- Annabelle Ewing 26 Jan 2021
- Richard Lyle 26 Jan 2021
- David Torrance Scottish National Party 26 Jan 2021
- Gillian Martin Scottish National Party 29 Jan 2021
- Joan McAlpine 29 Jan 2021
- Ruth Maguire 10 Feb 2021
- Clare Adamson Scottish National Party 18 Mar 2021
Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.