A/RES/78/179
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 December 2023
Seventy-eighth session
Agenda item 24 (b)
Social development: social development, including
questions relating to the world social situation and to
youth, ageing, persons with disabilities and the family
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2023
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/78/472, para. 57)]
78/179.
Policies and programmes involving youth
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action 2 and relevant international human rights instruments, in particular
the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 3 the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 4 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 5
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which the General
Assembly recognized youth as agents of change and pledged to leave no one behind,
and recognizing that all of the Sustainable Development Goals apply to youth,
Recalling its resolutions on policies and programmes involving youth, the latest
of which being resolution 76/137 of 16 December 2021, and the resolutions adopted
by the Commission for Social Development on the same topic,
Recalling also its resolution 75/1 of 21 September 2020 on the seventy-fifth
anniversary of the United Nations, in particular the commitments related to listening
to and working with youth, as well as to placing women and girls at the centre,
Recalling further the World Programme of Action for Youth, adopted by the
General Assembly in its resolutions 50/81 of 14 December 1995 and 62/126 of
18 December 2007,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Ibid.
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