Ms. Anca-Ruxandra Gliga
Advocate at the United Network of Young Peacebuilders and UN Major Group for Children and Youth
Ms. Gliga is a youth advocate from Romania, with a background in peacebuilding, advocacy and, more recently, the refugee response in Europe. As a member of the Youth Advocacy Team of the United Network of Young Peacebuilders, she has worked for the first Global Forum on Youth, Peace and Security that took place in Jordan last year, and towards the recently adopted UN SCR 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security. Ms. Gliga has worked in the refugee crisis in Greece, on the island of Lesvos and at the Greek-Macedonian border, focusing on most vulnerable cases, particularly women and children. Previously, she has worked as European Coordinator for Peace Revolution, an international peace education project and as Project Coordinator for the Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania – PATRIR, on a nation-wide educational campaign on the Millennium Development Goals.