A/RES/62/126
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Reiterates further the need to intensify efforts to implement effectively
the International Plan of Action for the United Nations Literacy Decade 8 and to
integrate substantially those efforts in the Education for All process and other
activities of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,
as well as other literacy initiatives within the framework of the internationally
agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals;
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Recognizes that while youth today are better placed than ever before to
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participate in and benefit from global development, many young people remain
marginalized, disconnected or excluded from the opportunities that globalization
offers, and in this regard calls upon Member States, with the support of the
international community, as appropriate:
(a) To integrate and protect youth in the global economy, including those
who live in poverty, through the provision of policies that give them everywhere a
real opportunity to find full and productive employment and decent work, including
policies that promote the transition to work on the basis of equality and
non-discrimination;
(b) To ensure that youth development, especially access of young people to
food, water, health, shelter, education and employment, is specifically addressed in
national policies and programmes, including poverty reduction strategy papers
where they exist, and in other policy documents that aim to foster the participation
of countries in the global economy;
(c) To ensure adequate funding for formal and non-formal education,
including programmes geared at fostering the acquisition of requisite skills by
youth;
(d) To improve the ability of young people, including those who live in
poverty, to make a better transition into the world of work and enhance their access
to the changing labour market through the promotion of policies that expand
opportunities for youth to get quality education and training, the provision of skills
development combined with other programmes that are targeted at the specific
labour market needs of youth and that focus on the multiple needs of those most at
risk of joblessness, and the incorporation of skills training into education planning
at all stages;
(e) To reinforce links between policies on education, training, social
integration and mobility so as to improve the situation of young people in the labour
market and to reduce significantly youth unemployment while also supporting
policies that promote reconciliation of family life and working life, equal
opportunities, solidarity between the generations, health and lifelong learning;
(f) To encourage young people’s entrepreneurship, including by promoting
formal and non-formal education on entrepreneurship for young people, increasing
their access to microfinancing and facilitating their participation in cooperatives and
other forms of social, economic or financial enterprises;
(g) To develop national strategies to overcome the digital divide in each
country and ensure that young people are equipped with knowledge and skills to use
information and communications technology appropriately, including the capacity to
analyse and treat information in creative and innovative ways and to share their
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See A/57/218 and Corr.1.
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