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The Commonwealth Youth Peace Ambassadors Network (CYPAN) aims at bringing together young people from across the Commonwealth to upscale and optimise grassroots, national, regional and pan-Commonwealth efforts to promote peace, respect & understanding and prevent violent extremism. These young people range from community-level and policy-level peace advocates to creatives. CYPAN aims at fostering collaboration between members and creates space for policy advocacy as it relates to peace.

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YOUTH WORK WEEK SPECIAL: Youth work is not a recognised profession in most developing countries. But with hundreds of highly skilled and talented young people leaving Nigeria each year in search of greener pastures, Abisola Onatoye, 24, a Commonwealth Correspondent

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YOUTH WORK WEEK SPECIAL: Only 1 in 4 children who starts primary school in Uganda makes it to secondary school, and less than half of students are literate at the end of primary school, according to UNICEF.  With nearly eight

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