The first ever elections to the UK Youth Parliament in Northern Ireland are currently in full swing! There are 54 candidates across 18 constituencies all campaigning to be the next MYP for their area. Voting opened on 7th February and will run until 7th March before the results are announced and the new MYPs appointed on...
Chairman of the Northern Ireland youth Forum, Martin McAuley, has condemned violence currently spreading across the region. Speaking after disturbances in Carrickfergus, Ballymena and Belfast he said: “I understand the depth of feeling in response to the Belfast City council decision on the Union flag. Symbols remain a hugely divisive issue and one of the biggest...
Members of the UK Youth parliament will be gathering in London tomorrow to debate the issues that matter most to them in the House of Commons at Westminster. UKYP is currently the only group allowed to use the Commons chamber for debate apart from MPs. Among them will be members of NIYF who have been...
Monday marked the launch of the Northern Ireland Anti-bullying forum sponsored anti-bullying week. As part of a week long period of action to raise awareness and challenge bullying across society, Northern Ireland Youth Forum members have been involved in a poster campaign being rolled out in schools, libraries, doctors surgeries and on public transport. Youth forum...
Northern Ireland Youth Forum welcomes votes at 16 Debate Representatives of the NI Youth forum today welcomed news that following their meeting with MLAs this month, a joint Sinn Fein/Green Party motion urging the lowering of the voting age to 16 will be debated in the assembly in November. At the latest AGM, members of the...
Northern Ireland Youth Forum Launches Votes@16 Campaign At our August ‘Have your Say Day’, the members of the Northern Ireland Youth Forum (NIYF) started work on their campaign to lower the voting age in Northern Ireland to 16. This was in response to the result of a poll held at the NIYF Annual General Meeting which...
Youth Parliament calls on young people to ‘Make their Mark The UK Youth Parliament (UKYP) today launched 'Make Your Mark', a UK-wide ballot which gives young people aged 11-18 the chance to decide what Members of Youth Parliament should debate and vote on -during their sitting in the House of Commons this November - to be...
Recently 5 members of the Youth Forum including myself were given the opportunity to be models for the day, unfortunately it wasn't for major fashion designer and we weren't modelling the next big thing. Instead we were going to be the faces of this years Anti Bullying Campaign which is run by Northern Ireland Anti...
