News Archive LAST UPDATE  August 8, 2010
July 22, 2010 Peace Boat celebrates the first ALBA Youth Cruise!

The ALBA Youth Cruise celebrates its first voyage with 13 members from 7 different countries, promoting international cooperation and cultural exchange.
The new International Student programme, ALBA YOUTH CRUISE for Latin America is a joint project between the Ministry of Foreign Relations in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the International NGO Peace Boat. With similar characterists to the The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), an international cooperation organization based on the idea of social, political, and economic integration between the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, the programme is focused on creating mechanisms that take advantage of positive cooperation between different nations in order to create equality in Latin America. This project invites a group of Latin American youth to join the ship and focus on these important issues while they travel onboard the Peace Boat – during this voyage, between Venezuela and Gu.
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One of the most important goals of the programme is to promote education about the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) in Latin America.
The aim of this programme is to strengthen the network of young leaders in Latin America focusing on the political and social integration of the region, as well as the importance of equality and social justice.

With student representatives from countries including Bolivia, Dominica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti, the programme aims to create a strong link to promote international solidarity among Latin American youth and youth from Asia, in particular from Korea and Japan, and together consider how to create a just and sustainable world.

A main focus of the programme is to improve general education about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight ambitious goals set to be acomplished by 2015, approved by 189 countries and signed by 147 chief of states and governments at the United Nations Millennium Conference.

More information about this programme can be seen on its dedicated blog (Spanish only): www.peaceboat-is.blogspot.com
ALBA Youth Declaration
 We, youth from Bolivia, Dominica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela, member countries of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas-TCP, and Haiti, as a country invited to join this platform of union, true alternative integration, promoting solidarity, cooperation, mutual support, respect, justice, and equality; concepts mentioned in the 200 year Declaration in Caracas, Venezuela on April 19th, 2010. After participating onboard with the non governmental organization, Peace Boat on the first ALBA Youth Cruise, where through an educational voyage in Latin America and the Caribbean, promoting peace and solidarity among nations, cultural exchange, international cooperation, the preservation of human rights and participative democracy, sustainable development and respect for the environment, we declare:

The fight against military intervention, the preservation and re-establishment of world peace are essential elements of the action being taken by the ALBA countries in their relationship to the international community; for this reason, we, the youth of the ALBA countries, support a campaign through various actions that re-establishes and conserves the peace of all nations, formed by a youth movement from Latin America and the Caribbean to support and maintain the Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, which renounces war as a method to solving disputes and prohibits the use of armed forces and other war potential.

We believe that it is time for the people of the world to understand the necessity to develop spaces, agreements and alliances that strengthen the capacity to guarantee the sovereignty of nations against foreign intervention.

To achieve this, we commit ourselves to promote the creation and maintenance of peaceful law in our countries, cities and communities where we work and study.