What if all the empathy that transpired in the speeches and talks of policy makers I listened to today at the Women Deliver pre-youth conference could immediately be converted to action? This is the question I asked myself during my reflection on the pre-youth conference that ok place on the 27th May 2013 in Kuala Lumpur.
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| Gaston Kwa with Kathy Calvin- President and Chief Executive Officer of the United Nations Foundation after an inspiring exchange at the Women Deliver pre-youth conference |
Passion, enthusiasm, and determination were perceptible in the way
the policy makers I listened to and spoke with today spoke about how
painful, frustrating, and humiliating the consequences of inequalities
that exist in today‘s world are. But does this mean these
people have finally heeded to the call of social activists to act now
for inequality to be eradicated? Only time will tell as youths will be
keeping a keen eye on these people to ensure that all the promises they
will make this time around are kept and within the minimum possible time
frame.
“The biggest risk to the continuity of humanity is inequality“, declared UNFPA‘s
deputy Director; Kate Gilmore during an intervention at the Women
Deliver pre-youth conference. Conscious of this, it is unavoidably true
that, by delivering on their promises to not only reduce but eradicate
inequalities and injustices of every nature, policy makers will be
contributing to the continuity of humanity. Therefore by failing to
deliver for Girls, women, and Youths, policy makers of this generation
will be committing a crime that present and future generations will not
pardon.
But well, we the youths of this generation won‘t sit arms
folded to see you commit such heinous crimes, because our silence-that
of Girls, Women, and Youths is a roar that will degenerate into
something worse if not listened to.
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