Meet on ‘Youth and democracy in South East Asia’ « Thread Started on Aug 8, 2007, 5:41pm » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Meet on ‘Youth and democracy in South East Asia’ Express News Service read at source> http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstor ... 249762Pune, August 7: AROUND 40 students from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, China, Austria, Maldives, Kazakhstan, France, Bhutan and Bolivia will join Indian students in the celebrations to commemorate 60th year of Indian Independence. City-based Center for Youth Development and Activities (CYDA) is organising a four-day international conference on ‘Youth and democracy in South Asia’ from August 11-14 at the YMCA. The meet will see youth coming together to discuss varied issues like role of young parliamentarians in democracy, role of women in democracy, freedom of speech with special reference to South Asia and so on. Politicians, activists, campaigners, academics would be participating in the seminar.