Youth-led movements, human rights highlighted in SEASAT Youth Camp 2025

The Southeast Asia-South Asia-Taiwan (SEASAT) Youth Camp 2025, organised by the Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation.

In its sixth year, the Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation held the Southeast Asia-South Asia-Taiwan (SEASAT) Youth Camp 2025 on July 14-17, 2025, focusing on key themes that aim to strengthen youth participation in the burgeoning developments throughout the Indo-Pacific region and the global landscape today.

Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director-General Johnny Hung-Hsun Lin underscored Taiwan’s commitment to empowering the youth through international exchange, with the event having congregated over 300 exemplary young leaders from the Indo-Pacific since its first edition in 2019. 

Throughout the Camp, discussion sessions were conducted with distinguished experts from Taiwan and the Foundation's international partners in navigating youth participation in the current global challenges facing the world today.

Among the panelists for the four-day session are the European Values Center for Security Policy Taiwan Office Head Martin Jerzewski, Senior Advisor to the Republic of China (Taiwan) Chia-wen Yao, National Human Rights Commission (Taiwan) Vice Chairperson Yu-Ling Wang, Amnesty International Taiwan National Director E-Ling Chiu and Taiwan Foundation for Democracy Deputy Executive Director Yeh-Chung Liu.

STEAR's Editor-in-Chief Prince Ernest Eugene Ronson D. Sabado (left) and Partnership Officer Anthea Canasa (right)

STEAR was represented by Editor-in-Chief Prince Ernest Eugene Ronson D. Sabado and Partnership Officer Anthea Canasa. Sabado and Canasa were among the young leaders tasked to present youth-centric policy ideas under the design thinking framework focusing on five key pillars, notably:

• Geopolitics and international relations;

• Human rights;

• The role of artificial intelligence;

• The role of developmental aid; and

• Youth civic-led engagements and movements

Throughout the Camp, STEAR’s representatives engaged with and gained insights from key regional experts across the aforementioned fields in crafting their respective final pitches alongside the 45 selected youth leaders from 16 countries and territories present at the event.

STEAR is a proud international partner of the Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation.