

PARTICIPANTS FROM
BAHAA AL-DIN AL-HAMDAN
STUDENT
Through the conference, I aspire to broaden my perceptions, diversify my mind, and obtain many valuable and pioneering information.
AREEJ KHALID KHAWALDEH
STUDENT
I am very interested to join the forum as an opportunity to gain exposure to further experiences and practices related to land rights issues and land governance in the region and other parts of the globe. I would be so happy to share the gain from the forum with my community with more focus on youth and women.
SANA'A KHASAWNEH
YOURS
Junior project manager at YOURS, a global organisation focused on making roads safer for youth. She has been selected as the first ambassador for the European Year for Youth.
SAMIR YAHYA MUHAMMAD AL-FAKHOURI
WE ARE ALL JORDAN YOUTH
I expect to exchange experiences extensively with the participants and transfer them on the ground in an effective and fruitful manner. I will bring with me a Jordanian shemagh and some symbolic gifts that show the image of the bright Jordan.
AMMAR ALRFOOH
TOWARDS A GREEN PLANET
I expect GLFY to develop a strategic plan in order to preserve the earth through various innovative tools, especially the issue of climate change.
MOHAMMAD KHARABSHEH
NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL
I believe that the Investment in agricultural lands could be an excellent opportunity to create more jobs and improve the youth’s livelihoods, which could lead to improve the national food security and a decrease in the unemployment rates in Jordan
SALEM AL-QAWASMEH
JORDAN BADMINTON FEDERATION
I am always strive to create positive change for the community with love and peace. It is our mandate to protect planet Earth by all means necessary! There is no planet B.
AHMAD ALSHOBAK
DANA
My area suffers from many agricultural problems, reason why I believe in the necessity of youth solidarity in the first place to solve these problems.
SAJIDA ABDEL FATTAH
SEEDS
I believe that land rights are fundamental and strategic to achieving a world with resilient food systems, through lower net emissions, greater environmental conservation, and freedom from hunger and poverty. I hope to understand the fundamentals of people- and planet-centered land management and how they contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals.
SAED ALNAWASREH
JORDANIAN YOUTH PARLIAMENT
I expect that it will be a fruitful meeting filled with knowledge and different cultures, and that we will all come up with creative solutions and ideas that make the earth and our environment better.
REEM ZORQAN
DANA
I care about land and I am trying to learn more about the ways to help solving it problems.
DANA ALSARHAN
DANA
I'm studying now master’s degree in media at the Middle East University, and I previously worked in the media field as a press editor. I expect from “GLFY” to develop my skills and gain new experiences, relationships and habits.
JOSUA SITUMORANG
KPA, INDONESIA
I dream of a change of land ownership and the equality of land rights for Indonesian people, especially for peasant or small-scale farmers, Indigenous Peoples, fisherfolks, and other vulnerable groups of people.
ULUKBEK ABDYKADYROV
KAFLU, KYRGYZSTAN
Staff member of ILC member Kyrgyz Association of Forest and Land Users (KAFLU). At 22 years old, Ulukbek works with specific groups from remote corners of Kyrgyzstan, mainly with communities that use wild forest resources.
MELISSA ALAMO
PAKISAMA, PHILIPPINES
26-year-old young woman activist working for ILC member PAKISAMA. She’s responsible for the organisation’ Young Farmers Programme, which aims to empower the rural youth by securing land rights and access to full value chain support services.
KRISHNA KHISA
KAPAEENG FOUNDATION, BANGLADESH
Ensuring the indigenous peoples customary land rights in Bangladesh is one of my desires as a youth leader working for land rights. I also hope our government will resolve land disputes in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) which were illegally occupied by the state and non-state actors.
RUDOLF TIAD
CARRD, PHILIPPINES
My dream is to be able to influence my fellow youth in participating with agrarian reform advocacy as well as leadership in farmers' cooperatives through capacitating them on basic agrarian reform policies and procedures and cooperative leadership. I’m motivated by my experiences growing up from a family of farmers.
SITI MARFU'AH
RMI, INDONESIA
I dream of a more just and equitable food system, from farming communities to consumers. I think this is possible through urban-rural youth cooperation, both in villages and cities.
ANTARIKSH VENKATARAMANAN
SWADHINA, INDIA
My dream is to create and support a global platform for sharing ideas and promoting the land rights advocacy and activism with various young leaders around the world.
BINOD GAUTAM
CSRC, NEPAL
32, works with the communities of landless and informal settlers who fight for claiming their rights in Nepal. He is a staff member of the Community Self Reliance Center (CSRC), a member of ILC.
MOHSIN KHAN
EKTA FOUNDATION TRUST, INDIA
My dream as a young leader is of a non-violent society. A society where young people have access, freedom, justice and land rights to lead a peaceful life. Bridging the gap between urban and rural India through youth participation and leadership.
CHANDRA TRIPURA
AIPP, BANGLADESH
Chandra, 27, is a young indigenous rights activist from the Chittagong Hill Tracts region in Bangladesh. She is the Executive Council Member of the Asia Indigenous Peoples’ Pact (AIPP), a member of ILC based in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
ALINA ZHENISHBEKOVA
RDF, KYRGYZSTAN
28-year-old staff member of the Rural Development Fund in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. She works with young people and women from local communities in rural Kyrgyzstan on the issue of ecosystem restoration and natural resource management.
SOTHEARA PHARN
CIPA, CAMBODIA
Staff member of the Cambodia Indigenous Peoples’ Association (CIPA), and a brand new member organisation of ILC! Sotheara is a 35-year-old indigenous rights activist with over 10 years of experience working with indigenous youth across Cambodia.
KASEREKA KAGHENI SAMUEL
AAP-ONG, D.R. CONGO
The GLFY will be an opportunity for me to launch, with other youth leaders, joint actions to identify the real challenges of youth in accessing land across the different regions of the world and solutions to reverse the current trend.
DOREEN FREDRICK TARIMO
TANZANIA NATURAL RESOURCE FORUM
I hope to prove that the goodness of empowering the next generation will help redefine and harness leadership and transformation towards youth-centred land governance.
MOSES NKHANA
MZIMBA YOUTH ORGANISATION, MALAWI
I will develop new friendships and partnerships that will at the end help in advancing the interest of the young people in Malawi through my youth land rights activism.
JUDEON YONG
CED, CAMEROON
It is an opportunity to learn more alongside many other young people, but also other activists on good practices and approaches to building more humane and responsible societies in terms of land rights
SOPHIE ELIZABETH ADHIAMBO
NAMATI, KENYA
The fellowship is already shaping my work on land governance through experience-sharing. This has been quite insightful in helping me understand what I need to do and how I can do it based on what others have done in their respective countries.
GEORGES GAMBADATOUN
YILAA, BENIN
Let's come up with a global roadmap or work plan backed by the ILC that shapes land policies in a way that contributes to the realisation of the SDGs.
SHIMRON KIPTOO
CIPDP, KENYA
Youth have for a long time been sidelined in the management of land and community land, let's remedy that!
LAUREEN ONGESA
RECONCILE, KENYA
GLFY will act as an essential platform where youth from all over, come together to form and build movements aiming at fighting for environmental justice as a key approach to ecosystem restoration and land governance.
SAMKE MKHIZE
ASSOCIATION FOR RURAL ADVANCEMENT, SOUTH AFRICA
I would like to see more collaborative actions agreed on from the forum and these should entail grassroots voices and their struggles.
MATCHERI ABDOU-RACHIDOU
ADHD, TOGO
With the teaching from trainers and experience sharing with colleagues, I will be able to strengthen my skills on land governance.
MAMADOU DIOP
CNCR, SENEGAL
I'd like to make my voice heard to the decision-makers of the world to tell them that no one should decide on behalf of young people without young people, because what is done for us, without us is almost against us.
JOHN FAYIAH KELVIN
RIGHTS AND RICE FOUNDATION, LIBERIA
I look forward to meeting and connecting with other outstanding young people to better understand youth leadership and the values that come when young people are trusted and empowered.
JUAN DAVID CARO ÁLVAREZ
YPARD, PERU
I am thrilled by the possibility of contributing to a process that will positively affect young people who want to work the land and identify with their own territory.
AGUSTÍN FANTINO
FEDERACIÓN AGRARIA ARGENTINA
I see this program as a fundamental step in order to make the different products of our territory visible and to empower young leaders so that problems that affect rural youth are included in the public and social agenda.
YOLANDA MARIBEL IZA QUINATOA
LUNA CRECIENTE, ECUADOR
I want to promote our agenda - built by young women within the framework of our school - which accounts for the needs of each territory so that it may serve as a basis for building a global policy.
MARLON H. HOWKING RODRIGUEZ
NITLAPAN, NICARAGUA
I dream that young people can have access to their own land so that they can work and live on it.
DIEGO EMMANUEL FLORES VÁSQUEZ
PROCASUR, EL SALVADOR
With my participation in this forum I seek to strengthen my skills and knowledge in order to face land related problems in my region.
RONY EZEQUIEL MORALES TOT
UVOC, GUATEMALA
I dream that young people can have equal access to land and land to call their own so that they can work and live on it.
MARELCY OLIVERA GUZMÁN
CDS, COLOMBIA
I seek to share my work experiences in the defence of land and territory so that it can serve other communities.
KANTUTA CONDE
RJI, BOLIVIA
As a young Aymara, I wish to make a positive contribution for the promotion of a young leadership, the recognition of indigenous peoples' right to their territories, the conservation of biodiversity and the respect for traditional knowledge.
SIMÓN C. LONCOPÁN
OBSERVATORIO CIUDADANO DE CHILE
My dream is to ensure that new generations get involved in collective action supporting projects that allow us to advance more solidly towards self-determination.
LETICIA YOLANDA RUIZ QUINO
CCDA, GUATEMALA
Future Leaders is important for the political training of new leaders in our communities and organisations.
NAHIR DAVID
COLECTIVO DE MUJERES DEL GRAN CHACO, ARGENTINA
We are a group of Guarani indigenous women focused on intraculturality, gender, our territory and nature preservation.
JULIÁN MARTÍNEZ
RED OJA, MEXICO
My goal is to promote an agenda for territorial governance and land management together with organised youth from Mexico and Latam. This is vital for the sustainable development of communities that are the guardians of forest ecosystems.
YAMILI CHAN DZUL
ECOMUNNIS AC, MEXICO
I seek to build processes for women's access to land rights and for promoting greater autonomy for women in the Mayan indigenous territory.
MARICIELO QUISPE
CODECA, GUATEMALA
I hope to learn more about the different approaches young leaders use for defending land rights.
KRISTINA VILLA
AGRARIAN TRUST, USA
Looking forward to connecting with and learning from young leaders across the world as a positive step towards addressing the issues around land, food, sovereignty and justice which impact us all!
SALAH KHALED AL-ABDALI
INT. YOUNG COUNCIL OF YEMEN
My dream is to overcome climate change and the devastation caused by the war in my country, Yemen.
ALI FAGOURI
APABY, MOROCCO
I am aiming at taking advantage of new ideas in order to help and be good to my community and grow in the field of land and grazing.
MONICA USAI
LIBERA CONTRO LE MAFIE, ITALY
A great occasion of empowerment and the opportunity to exchange land related knowledge concerning land grabbing but also reappropriation by a community pursuing the same social justice objective.
MAGNUS DAVIDSON
CLS, SCOTLAND
I hope we can develop a collective and global youth land movement coming out of the GLYF.
PERSIDA JOVANOVIC
SAVE SINJAJEVINA, MONTENEGRO
I hope that by learning from each other's experience we can come up together with the strategy to work united to protect our lands.
MARIANTONIETTA IANNELLA
COOP. AGRICOLA TORRECUSO, ITALY
This can contribute to social inclusion, help protect human rights and support climate change adaptation and mitigation.
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BAHAA AL-DIN AL-HAMDAN
STUDENT
Through the conference, I aspire to broaden my perceptions, diversify my mind, and obtain many valuable and pioneering information.
AREEJ KHALID KHAWALDEH
STUDENT
I am very interested to join the forum as an opportunity to gain exposure to further experiences and practices related to land rights issues and land governance in the region and other parts of the globe. I would be so happy to share the gain from the forum with my community with more focus on youth and women.
SANA'A KHASAWNEH
YOURS
Junior project manager at YOURS, a global organisation focused on making roads safer for youth. She has been selected as the first ambassador for the European Year for Youth.
SAMIR YAHYA MUHAMMAD AL-FAKHOURI
WE ARE ALL JORDAN YOUTH
I expect to exchange experiences extensively with the participants and transfer them on the ground in an effective and fruitful manner. I will bring with me a Jordanian shemagh and some symbolic gifts that show the image of the bright Jordan.
AMMAR ALRFOOH
TOWARDS A GREEN PLANET
I expect GLFY to develop a strategic plan in order to preserve the earth through various innovative tools, especially the issue of climate change.
MOHAMMAD KHARABSHEH
NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL
I believe that the Investment in agricultural lands could be an excellent opportunity to create more jobs and improve the youth’s livelihoods, which could lead to improve the national food security and a decrease in the unemployment rates in Jordan
SALEM AL-QAWASMEH
JORDAN BADMINTON FEDERATION
I am always strive to create positive change for the community with love and peace. It is our mandate to protect planet Earth by all means necessary! There is no planet B.
AHMAD ALSHOBAK
DANA
My area suffers from many agricultural problems, reason why I believe in the necessity of youth solidarity in the first place to solve these problems.
SAJIDA ABDEL FATTAH
SEEDS
I believe that land rights are fundamental and strategic to achieving a world with resilient food systems, through lower net emissions, greater environmental conservation, and freedom from hunger and poverty. I hope to understand the fundamentals of people- and planet-centered land management and how they contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals.
SAED ALNAWASREH
JORDANIAN YOUTH PARLIAMENT
I expect that it will be a fruitful meeting filled with knowledge and different cultures, and that we will all come up with creative solutions and ideas that make the earth and our environment better.
REEM ZORQAN
DANA
I care about land and I am trying to learn more about the ways to help solving it problems.
DANA ALSARHAN
DANA
I'm studying now master’s degree in media at the Middle East University, and I previously worked in the media field as a press editor. I expect from “GLFY” to develop my skills and gain new experiences, relationships and habits.
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JOSUA SITUMORANG
KPA, INDONESIA
I dream of a change of land ownership and the equality of land rights for Indonesian people, especially for peasant or small-scale farmers, Indigenous Peoples, fisherfolks, and other vulnerable groups of people.
ULUKBEK ABDYKADYROV
KAFLU, KYRGYZSTAN
Staff member of ILC member Kyrgyz Association of Forest and Land Users (KAFLU). At 22 years old, Ulukbek works with specific groups from remote corners of Kyrgyzstan, mainly with communities that use wild forest resources.
MELISSA ALAMO
PAKISAMA, PHILIPPINES
26-year-old young woman activist working for ILC member PAKISAMA. She’s responsible for the organisation’ Young Farmers Programme, which aims to empower the rural youth by securing land rights and access to full value chain support services.
KRISHNA KHISA
KAPAEENG FOUNDATION, BANGLADESH
Ensuring the indigenous peoples customary land rights in Bangladesh is one of my desires as a youth leader working for land rights. I also hope our government will resolve land disputes in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) which were illegally occupied by the state and non-state actors.
RUDOLF TIAD
CARRD, PHILIPPINES
My dream is to be able to influence my fellow youth in participating with agrarian reform advocacy as well as leadership in farmers' cooperatives through capacitating them on basic agrarian reform policies and procedures and cooperative leadership. I’m motivated by my experiences growing up from a family of farmers.
SITI MARFU'AH
RMI, INDONESIA
I dream of a more just and equitable food system, from farming communities to consumers. I think this is possible through urban-rural youth cooperation, both in villages and cities.
ANTARIKSH VENKATARAMANAN
SWADHINA, INDIA
My dream is to create and support a global platform for sharing ideas and promoting the land rights advocacy and activism with various young leaders around the world.
BINOD GAUTAM
CSRC, NEPAL
32, works with the communities of landless and informal settlers who fight for claiming their rights in Nepal. He is a staff member of the Community Self Reliance Center (CSRC), a member of ILC.
MOHSIN KHAN
EKTA FOUNDATION TRUST, INDIA
My dream as a young leader is of a non-violent society. A society where young people have access, freedom, justice and land rights to lead a peaceful life. Bridging the gap between urban and rural India through youth participation and leadership.
CHANDRA TRIPURA
AIPP, BANGLADESH
Chandra, 27, is a young indigenous rights activist from the Chittagong Hill Tracts region in Bangladesh. She is the Executive Council Member of the Asia Indigenous Peoples’ Pact (AIPP), a member of ILC based in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
ALINA ZHENISHBEKOVA
RDF, KYRGYZSTAN
28-year-old staff member of the Rural Development Fund in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. She works with young people and women from local communities in rural Kyrgyzstan on the issue of ecosystem restoration and natural resource management.
SOTHEARA PHARN
CIPA, CAMBODIA
Staff member of the Cambodia Indigenous Peoples’ Association (CIPA), and a brand new member organisation of ILC! Sotheara is a 35-year-old indigenous rights activist with over 10 years of experience working with indigenous youth across Cambodia.
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KASEREKA KAGHENI SAMUEL
AAP-ONG, D.R. CONGO
The GLFY will be an opportunity for me to launch, with other youth leaders, joint actions to identify the real challenges of youth in accessing land across the different regions of the world and solutions to reverse the current trend.
DOREEN FREDRICK TARIMO
TANZANIA NATURAL RESOURCE FORUM
I hope to prove that the goodness of empowering the next generation will help redefine and harness leadership and transformation towards youth-centred land governance.
MOSES NKHANA
MZIMBA YOUTH ORGANISATION, MALAWI
I will develop new friendships and partnerships that will at the end help in advancing the interest of the young people in Malawi through my youth land rights activism.
JUDEON YONG
CED, CAMEROON
It is an opportunity to learn more alongside many other young people, but also other activists on good practices and approaches to building more humane and responsible societies in terms of land rights
SOPHIE ELIZABETH ADHIAMBO
NAMATI, KENYA
The fellowship is already shaping my work on land governance through experience-sharing. This has been quite insightful in helping me understand what I need to do and how I can do it based on what others have done in their respective countries.
GEORGES GAMBADATOUN
YILAA, BENIN
Let's come up with a global roadmap or work plan backed by the ILC that shapes land policies in a way that contributes to the realisation of the SDGs.
SHIMRON KIPTOO
CIPDP, KENYA
Youth have for a long time been sidelined in the management of land and community land, let's remedy that!
LAUREEN ONGESA
RECONCILE, KENYA
GLFY will act as an essential platform where youth from all over, come together to form and build movements aiming at fighting for environmental justice as a key approach to ecosystem restoration and land governance.
SAMKE MKHIZE
ASSOCIATION FOR RURAL ADVANCEMENT, SOUTH AFRICA
I would like to see more collaborative actions agreed on from the forum and these should entail grassroots voices and their struggles.
MATCHERI ABDOU-RACHIDOU
ADHD, TOGO
With the teaching from trainers and experience sharing with colleagues, I will be able to strengthen my skills on land governance.
MAMADOU DIOP
CNCR, SENEGAL
I'd like to make my voice heard to the decision-makers of the world to tell them that no one should decide on behalf of young people without young people, because what is done for us, without us is almost against us.
JOHN FAYIAH KELVIN
RIGHTS AND RICE FOUNDATION, LIBERIA
I look forward to meeting and connecting with other outstanding young people to better understand youth leadership and the values that come when young people are trusted and empowered.
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JUAN DAVID CARO ÁLVAREZ
YPARD, PERU
I am thrilled by the possibility of contributing to a process that will positively affect young people who want to work the land and identify with their own territory.
AGUSTÍN FANTINO
FEDERACIÓN AGRARIA ARGENTINA
I see this program as a fundamental step in order to make the different products of our territory visible and to empower young leaders so that problems that affect rural youth are included in the public and social agenda.
YOLANDA MARIBEL IZA QUINATOA
LUNA CRECIENTE, ECUADOR
I want to promote our agenda - built by young women within the framework of our school - which accounts for the needs of each territory so that it may serve as a basis for building a global policy.
MARLON H. HOWKING RODRIGUEZ
NITLAPAN, NICARAGUA
I dream that young people can have access to their own land so that they can work and live on it.
DIEGO EMMANUEL FLORES VÁSQUEZ
PROCASUR, EL SALVADOR
With my participation in this forum I seek to strengthen my skills and knowledge in order to face land related problems in my region.
RONY EZEQUIEL MORALES TOT
UVOC, GUATEMALA
I dream that young people can have equal access to land and land to call their own so that they can work and live on it.
MARELCY OLIVERA GUZMÁN
CDS, COLOMBIA
I seek to share my work experiences in the defence of land and territory so that it can serve other communities.
KANTUTA CONDE
RJI, BOLIVIA
As a young Aymara, I wish to make a positive contribution for the promotion of a young leadership, the recognition of indigenous peoples' right to their territories, the conservation of biodiversity and the respect for traditional knowledge.
SIMÓN C. LONCOPÁN
OBSERVATORIO CIUDADANO DE CHILE
My dream is to ensure that new generations get involved in collective action supporting projects that allow us to advance more solidly towards self-determination.
LETICIA YOLANDA RUIZ QUINO
CCDA, GUATEMALA
Future Leaders is important for the political training of new leaders in our communities and organisations.
NAHIR DAVID
COLECTIVO DE MUJERES DEL GRAN CHACO, ARGENTINA
We are a group of Guarani indigenous women focused on intraculturality, gender, our territory and nature preservation.
JULIÁN MARTÍNEZ
RED OJA, MEXICO
My goal is to promote an agenda for territorial governance and land management together with organised youth from Mexico and Latam. This is vital for the sustainable development of communities that are the guardians of forest ecosystems.
YAMILI CHAN DZUL
ECOMUNNIS AC, MEXICO
I seek to build processes for women's access to land rights and for promoting greater autonomy for women in the Mayan indigenous territory.
MARICIELO QUISPE
CODECA, GUATEMALA
I hope to learn more about the different approaches young leaders use for defending land rights.
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KRISTINA VILLA
AGRARIAN TRUST, USA
Looking forward to connecting with and learning from young leaders across the world as a positive step towards addressing the issues around land, food, sovereignty and justice which impact us all!
SALAH KHALED AL-ABDALI
INT. YOUNG COUNCIL OF YEMEN
My dream is to overcome climate change and the devastation caused by the war in my country, Yemen.
ALI FAGOURI
APABY, MOROCCO
I am aiming at taking advantage of new ideas in order to help and be good to my community and grow in the field of land and grazing.
MONICA USAI
LIBERA CONTRO LE MAFIE, ITALY
A great occasion of empowerment and the opportunity to exchange land related knowledge concerning land grabbing but also reappropriation by a community pursuing the same social justice objective.
MAGNUS DAVIDSON
CLS, SCOTLAND
I hope we can develop a collective and global youth land movement coming out of the GLYF.
PERSIDA JOVANOVIC
SAVE SINJAJEVINA, MONTENEGRO
I hope that by learning from each other's experience we can come up together with the strategy to work united to protect our lands.
MARIANTONIETTA IANNELLA
COOP. AGRICOLA TORRECUSO, ITALY
This can contribute to social inclusion, help protect human rights and support climate change adaptation and mitigation.

