Pacific leaders hear from youth on global crisis

Updated February 9, 2010 16:15:22

The global economic crisis is hurting everyone in the region, but particularly the poor and the vulnerable. At this week's United Nations conference on the 'Human Face of the Global Economic Crisis' being held in Vanuatu, Pacific leaders will hear, for the first time, from children and young people about how the crisis is affecting them.

Presenter: Jemima Garrett
Speakers: Mereia Carling, Pacific Social Policy Officer, UNICEF; Libby Buxton, youth delegate, Fiji