Cara Borg Aquilina Shortlisted For Youth Leadership Award 2025

At just 21 years old, Cara Borg Aquilina is a law student and a dedicated advocate for youth engagement in international policy. During her tenure as Malta’s United Nations Youth Delegate, she has promoted civic education, sustainable development, and inclusive governance, connecting global insights back to Malta’s policy discourse.

Cara has participated in high-level negotiations, thematic forums, and multilateral summits across the UN, delivering national statements on disability rights and combating racism. Her notable interventions include the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68), the High-Level Political Forum 2024, UNGA79, and the 58th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC58) in Geneva, as well as COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. At these events, she has championed climate literacy, youth-led initiatives, and inclusive policymaking.

At the ECOSOC Youth Forum 2025, Cara advocated for co-designed agri-food systems, region-specific youth employment strategies, and structural youth empowerment in governance.

She also collaborated with UN Youth Delegates to launch a Global Youth Call to Action on Mental Health and contributed to the Youth Chapter of Malta’s Second Voluntary National Review.

She was part of the Youth Leader Fund for a World Without Nuclear Weapons, a United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs programme. Selected from 8,400 applicants worldwide, Cara is among 100 young people working on disarmament, non-proliferation, and nuclear weapons control.

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