On the 12th August we celebrated International Youth Day -- a perfect opportunity to recognise the potential of youth and to celebrate their achievements.

All young people of differing ages and abilities including the most marginalised are entitled to be informed and get involved in any matter concerning them.

Children have a right to say what they think should happen, when adults are making decisions that affect them. Adults have a responsibility to take children’s opinions into account.

This picture gallery is dedicated to young people who have become agents of change.

(To protect them, some of the names of the subjects of this photo essay have been changed.)