International Falcon Movement

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International Falcon Movement - Socialist Education International

Type	International Umbrella Educational Organisation
Founded	1922
Headquarters	IFM-SEI office, 98, Rue du Trône, B-1050, Brussels, Belgium
Origins	European Socialist Education Movements
Key people	Secretary General Tamsin Pearce President Tim Scholz
Focus	Socialism, Internationalism, Children's Rights and Democracy
Method	Popular Education
Slogan	Span the world with friendship
Website	http://www.ifm-sei.org
A fraternal member of Socialist International

The International Falcon Movement - Socialist Education International (IFM-SEI) is an international non-profit organisation, struggling for children's rights. It is a fraternal organisation of Socialist International and works closely with International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) and ECOSY - Young European Socialists. IFM - SEI is a full member of the European Youth Forum (YFJ) which operates within the Council of Europe and European Union area and works closely with both these bodies. In Latin-America it is a full member of the Foro Latin-America de Juventud (FLAJ). And it is also a member of the International Coordination Meeting of Youth Organisations (ICMYO)which consists of worldwide active youth organisations and regional youth platforms coordinating their activities towards the UN and its agencies.

It has member organisations all over the world and is strongest in Europe and South America. Many of its member organisations work with children and young people of all ages through activities, groups and camping.

IFM - SEI members are children and youth self organizations, family organisations and other organisations who are working for the benefit of children and youngsters. IFM organise campaigns, for example against child labour or child pornography, seminars, trainings, camps and other educational activities. Their activities are carried out by member organisation, and international seminars are held regularly in cooperation with the other fraternal organization. A recent activity was the Peace Camp with Israelis and Palestinians.^[1] The LGBT event of IFM is called Queer Easter.^[2]

The last IFM-SEI camp was held in August 2006 at the Kent County Show Ground, UK. Hosted by the UK branch The Woodcraft Folk, the event was called Global Village 2006 and brought together around 5000 young people to campaign and work together on the Millennium Development Goals.

[edit] Officers

The President is Tim Scholz who is the international political education officer at the German branch, SJD - Die Falken's education centre Kurt Loewenstein Centre. Before this he was the Children Rights project officer for the Die Falken Berlin.

The Secretary General is Tamsin Pearce who was formerly a vice-president of IFM-SEI, she is from the Woodcraft Folk and was chair of their general council and international committee.

Other presidium members are Anna Maria Forsberg de Paula, Djibril Faye, Edan Kaushani, Gro Tvedt Anderssen, Jiri Let, Madhu Talwalkar, Marcela Careño Mardones, Sri Eni Purnamawati, Ziad Nazzal.

Former presidents were Jessi Sörensen from DUI leg og virke/Denmark (1995 - 2001), Östen Lövgren from Unga Örnar/Sweden (2001 - 2005) and Ted Birch also from Unga Örnar/Sweden (2005 - 2007). Former Secretary Generals were Jacqui Cottyn from/Belgium (?1983 - 1995), Odette Lambert from/Belgium (1995 - 2001) and Uwe Ostendorff from SJD - Die Falken/Germany.