Eurasia News

Monday January 3rd 2011, will mark the beginning of the World Organization of the Scout Movement’s 11th World Scout Youth Forum. Taking place in Blumenau, Brazil from the 3rd – 6th of January this is one of the very first world Scout events of the...

inBox is the eNewsletter of the Asia-Pacific Region of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. It is published monthly by the Asia-Pacific Regional Office of the World Scout Bureau and has four main parts, namely: What's new; What's going on...

The environment is our playground and we are sharing with the tens of thousands of international non-governmental and governmental delegates at the event how scouting has always cared for the planet, not because we had to, but rather, simply that we...

Every minute, 8 people around the world flee their homes to escape conflict or persecution. To raise awareness about this issue, UNHCR is launching their #add1voice community action application on Facebook and Twitter on Thursday, November 24th....

Rarely before has the Scout motto "Be prepared" been so timely. Just one week after the JOTA-JOTI, a 7.2 earthquake struck Eastern Turkey. It was the most powerful earthquake to hit the country in ten years. One of the themes of this year's JOTA-JOTI...

The thirteenth of October is UN International Day for Disaster Reduction. Its theme for this year is “Making Children and Young People Partners for Disaster Risk Reduction”. From its inception, Scouting around the world has engaged itself in helping...

If you were at the World Scout Jamboree in Sweden this summer you certainly heard about "Messengers of Peace". During the Jamboree 12.000 Scouts from all over the world signed the initiatives and registered their projects on the Messengers of Peace...

Astronaut and scout master Mike Fossum is planning to participate in JOTA from the International Space Station. His schedule is somewhat flexible on the weekends but will not be available for every pass. The typical crew work periods are 0800-1930...

15 September, Stockholm. Today the Swedish parliament opened for the year. His Majesty, King Carl Gustaf of Sweden makes his only speech to the parliament this day. This year he talked for seven minutes and of these two and a half minutes were about...

Last Thursday 1st September, the Costa Rican government declared the Guides and Scouts Association a Meritorious Institution. This is the highest governmental distinction that can be given to an Institution. The Costa Rican congress based its...

Gilbert Mussumba is a member of the Regional Committee of the Africa Scout Region and is the Project Manager of Amahoro Amani. He is from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and is currently based in Bujumbura, the capital city of Burundi where...

We are pleased to inform you that the World Organization of the Scout Movement has been awarded the Calouste Gulbenkian International Prize by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Portugal ( http://www.gulbenkian.pt ). The prize was also awarded...

We are very pleased to announce a new way to access World Scouting information on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch mobile devices. SCOUTS is our new application available for download from the Apple App Store and is compatible with iOS 4 or later. Scouts...

On 15th July 2011, in the middle of Stockholm at its busiest point, a full outdoor photo exhibition telling the story of the new Messengers of Peace programme has been revealed. The Honorary Chairman of the World Scout Foundation, HM The King of...

On 12th June, the International Labour Organization (ILO) invites everyone to celebrate the World Day against Child Labour. The ILO’s most recent global estimate is that out of 250 million working children, 115 million children are involved in...