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Policies and programmes involving youth (2016), para. 27
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- 17. Further recognizes that the international community faces increasing challenges posed by climate change and the loss of biodiversity, which have increased vulnerabilities and inequalities with direct and indirect implications for the well-being of youth, and which could make youth, particularly in developing countries and small island developing States, vulnerable to their adverse impacts, including through suffering disproportionately in labour markets in times of crisis created by climate change, and calls for the enhanced cooperation of and concerted action by Member States with youth in order to address those challenges, taking into account the positive role that the education of youth can play in that respect;
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- Education
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Promotion of sustainable tourism, including ecotourism, for poverty eradication and environment protection (2017), para. 22
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- 7. Encourages all stakeholders to support, as appropriate, the participation of indigenous peoples and local communities in sustainable tourism, including women and young people in all tourism operations, including ecotourism activities, in the light of their expertise and knowledge;
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- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all (2019), para. 38
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- 14. Encourages Governments, with the support of relevant stakeholders, as appropriate, to accelerate the transition towards sustainable economies, according to national policies and plans, through mitigation and adaptation strategies that improve energy efficiency and create more and better employment opportunities for all, including young people, in wage and self-employment;
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- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Policies and programmes involving youth (2010), para. 17
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- (b) To strengthen the participation of young people, as important actors in the protection, preservation and improvement of the environment at the local, national and international levels, as envisioned in Agenda 21; 4F 5
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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United action with renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons (2018), para. 53
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- 25. Encourages every effort to raise awareness of the realities of the use of nuclear weapons, including through, among others, visits by leaders, youth and others to and interactions with communities and people, including the hibakusha (those who have suffered the use of nuclear weapons) that pass on their experiences to the future generations;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The Social Forum (2011), para. 20
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- 10. Decides that the Social Forum will remain open to the participation of representatives of States Members of the United Nations and all other interested stakeholders, such as intergovernmental organizations, different components of the United Nations system, especially mandate holders of thematic procedures and mechanisms of the human rights machinery, regional economic commissions and specialized agencies and organizations, as well as representatives designated by human rights national institutions and non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, and shall also be open to other non-governmental organizations whose aims and purposes are in conformity with the spirit, purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, in particular newly emerging actors such as small groups and rural and urban associations from the North and the South, anti-poverty groups, peasants’ and farmers’ organizations and their national and international associations, voluntary organizations, environmental organizations and activists, youth associations, community organizations, trade unions and associations of workers, as well as representatives of the private sector, on the basis of arrangements including Economic and Social Council resolution 1996/31 of 25 July 1996 and practices observed by the Commission on Human Rights, through an open and transparent accreditation procedure, in accordance with the rules of procedure of the Human Rights Council, while ensuring the most effective contribution of these entities;
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Human rights and indigenous peoples (2019), para. 21
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- 5. Urges States and other potential donors to contribute to the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples, and encourages the expansion of its mandate in order to support the participation of indigenous peoples, including indigenous women, youth and persons with disabilities, in United Nations business and human rights and climate change processes;
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- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Sustainable tourism and sustainable development in Central America (2018), para. 32
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- 18. Calls upon Member States and the tourism sector to take effective measures, in the context of sustainable tourism, including ecotourism initiatives, to help to promote the equal participation of women and the balanced participation of __________________ youth, older persons, persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples, at all levels and in decision-making processes in all areas, and to promote effective economic empowerment, mainly through decent job and income creation;
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- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Promotion of sustainable tourism, including ecotourism, for poverty eradication and environment protection (2019), para. 27
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- 8. Encourages all stakeholders to support, as appropriate, the participation of indigenous peoples and local communities in sustainable tourism, including women and young people in all tourism operations, including ecotourism activities, in the light of their expertise and knowledge;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Promotion of sustainable tourism, including ecotourism, for poverty eradication and environment protection (2017), para. 12
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- Recognizing that sustainable tourism, including ecotourism, is a cross-cutting activity that can contribute to the three dimensions of sustainable development and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, including by fostering economic growth, alleviating poverty, creating full and productive employment and decent work for all, accelerating the change to more sustainable consumption and production patterns and promoting the sustainable use of oceans, seas and marine resources, promoting local culture, improving the quality of life and the economic empowerment of women and young people and promoting rural development and better living conditions for rural populations,
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- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Political Declaration of the High-level Midterm Review on the Implementation of the Vienna Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024 (2019), para. 07
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- 4. We are committed in our endeavour to help to turn landlocked developing countries into land-linked countries; for this we must come together in durable, transparent, accountable and effective partnerships between landlocked developing countries and transit countries and their development partners, as well as with a range of stakeholders, including civil society, the private sector, academia and youth. We further reaffirm that gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls will make a crucial contribution to the achievement of the Vienna Programme of Action.
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Promotion of sustainable tourism, including ecotourism, for poverty eradication and environment protection (2019), para. 13
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- Recognizing that sustainable tourism, including ecotourism, is a cross-cutting activity that can contribute to the three dimensions of sustainable development and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, including by fostering economic growth, alleviating poverty, creating full and productive employment and decent work for all, accelerating the change to more sustainable consumption and production patterns and promoting the sustainable use of oceans, seas and marine resources, promoting local culture, improving the quality of life and the economic empowerment of women and young people and promoting rural development and better living conditions for rural populations,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Organization of la Francophonie (2015), para. 39
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- (e) To act for the achievement of sustainable, equitable and inclusive growth within the post-2015 development agenda and to take into account priorities with regard to women and youth, and, within the framework of the sustainable development goals, to commit to a multidimensional approach to sustainable human development and to mobilize for a universal, ambitious, just and equitable agreement, in accordance with the principles and provisions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; 4
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Promotion of sustainable tourism, including ecotourism, for poverty eradication and environment protection (2017), para. 38
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- 23. Encourages the United Nations, the specialized agencies and other organizations, within existing mandates and resources, the public and private sectors and other relevant stakeholders to develop awareness-raising materials that target local development, the empowerment of women and indigenous peoples and youth entrepreneurship and innovation, in order to ensure the sustainability of the tourism sector and its contribution to the country’s development objectives;
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- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Youth
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Promotion of sustainable tourism, including ecotourism, for poverty eradication and environment protection (2019), para. 49
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- 30. Encourages the United Nations, the specialized agencies and other organizations, within existing mandates and resources, the public and private sectors and other relevant stakeholders to develop awareness-raising materials that target local development, the empowerment of women, indigenous peoples, local communities, youth entrepreneurship and innovation, and the protection of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions in order to ensure the sustainability of the tourism sector and its contribution to a country’s development objectives;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Youth
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations andthe Council of Europe (2011), para. 34
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- 23. Requests the Secretaries-General of the United Nations and the Council of Europe to combine their efforts in seeking answers to global challenges, within their respective mandates, and calls upon all relevant United Nations bodies to support the enhancement of cooperation with the Council of Europe, as appropriate, in the areas mentioned above as well as in other fields such as youth, sport, biodiversity, health and disaster risk reduction, with regard to which fruitful cooperation is already taking place;
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- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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United action with renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons (2017), para. 46
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- 23. Encourages every effort to raise awareness of the realities of the use of nuclear weapons, including through, among others, visits by leaders, youth and others to and interactions with communities and people, including atomic bomb survivors, the hibakusha, that pass on their experiences to the future generations;
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- Environment
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2019), para. 32
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- 7. Reaffirms the importance of supporting the African Union’s development framework, Agenda 2063, as well as its 10-year plan of action, as a strategic framework for ensuring a positive socioeconomic transformation in Africa within the next 50 years, which is the African Union long-term strategy emphasizing industrialization, youth employment, improved natural resource governance and the reduction of inequalities, and its continental programme embedded in the resolutions of the General Assembly on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development 18 and regional initiatives, such as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme;
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Framework for a Renewed United Nations-African Union Partnership on Africa’s Integration and Development Agenda 2017–2027 (2017), para. 10
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- Welcoming the adoption of Agenda 2063 by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union at its twenty-fourth ordinary session, held in Addis Ababa on 30 and 31 January 2015, as the African Union long-term strategy emphasizing industrialization, youth employment, improved natural resource governance and the reduction of inequalities,
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- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind (2020), para. 40
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- 13. Welcomes the holding of the 2019 Climate Action Summit convened by the Secretary-General on 23 September, notes the multi-partner initiatives and commitments presented during the Summit and notes also the Youth Climate Summit, held on 21 September;
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- Environment
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- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2018), para. 42
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- 16. Recognizes the important role of information and communications technology in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by constituting a tool for improving agricultural productivity, practices and smallholder livelihoods, strengthening agricultural markets and institutions, improving agricultural extension and rural advisory services, empowering farmer communities, keeping farmers and rural entrepreneurs informed about agricultural innovations, weather conditions, input availability, financial services and market prices and connecting them with buyers, and stresses the need to ensure the access of women and youth to information and communication technology, especially in rural areas;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Promotion of sustainable tourism, including ecotourism, for poverty eradication and environment protection (2019), para. 25
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- 6. Recognizes that sustainable tourism, including ecotourism, can improve the well-being of indigenous peoples and local communities, including women and young people, and can create significant opportunities for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and/or the protection of natural areas by encouraging indigenous peoples and local communities in host countries and tourists alike to preserve and respect the natural and cultural heritage;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Industrial development cooperation (2019), para. 24
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- Stressing the importance of international industrial cooperation in promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization, the creation of decent jobs, including for young people, inclusive economic growth, pollution control, knowledge networking, resource efficiency, access to clean, safe and sustainable energy, gender equality and women’s empowerment, and opportunities for all members of society to participate in economic activities and to address major challenges and issues such as poverty, climate change, shifting demographics and growing inequalities,
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- Environment
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Policies and programmes involving youth (1995), para. 08
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- 2. Calls upon Member States to enable young people to obtain a comprehensive education, including in human rights questions, environmental questions and cross-cultural issues, with a view to fostering mutual understanding and tolerance;
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- Education
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Human rights and the environment (2017), para. 26
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- (c) To facilitate public awareness and participation in environmental decision- making, including of civil society, women, children, youth, indigenous peoples, local communities, peasants and others who depend directly on biodiversity and the services provided by ecosystems, by protecting all human rights, including the rights to freedom of expression and to freedom of peaceful assembly and association;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2016), para. 22
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- 2. Urges Member States, relevant United Nations organizations and other stakeholders to strengthen efforts to improve the development of sustainable agricultural technologies and their transfer and dissemination under mutually agreed terms to developing countries, especially the least developed countries, in particular at the bilateral and regional levels, and to support national efforts to foster the utilization of local know-how and agricultural technologies, promote agricultural technology research and access to knowledge and information through suitable communication for development strategies and enable rural women, as well as men and youth, to increase sustainable agricultural productivity, reduce post -harvest losses and enhance food and nutritional security;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind (2013), para. 21
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- 12. Recognizes the need to engage a broad range of stakeholders at the global, regional, national and local levels, including national, subnational and local governments, private businesses and civil society, and including youth and persons with disabilities, and that gender equality and the effective participation of women and indigenous peoples are important for effective action on all aspects of climate change;
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- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Promotion of sustainable tourism, including ecotourism, for poverty eradication and environment protection (2017), para. 32
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- 17. Also emphasizes the need for effective measures, in the context of sustainable tourism, including ecotourism initiatives, to help to ensure the equal participation of young people, persons with disabilities and older persons at all levels and in decision-making processes in all areas and to promote the effective economic empowerment, including through international cooperation, of women, young people, persons with disabilities and older persons in sustainable tourism, including ecotourism activities, mainly through decent job and income creation;
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- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2020), para. 48
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- 20. Recognizes the important role of information and communications technology, as well as digitalization and e-agriculture, in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, which constitute tools for improving agricultural productivity, practices and smallholder livelihoods, strengthening agricultural markets and institutions, improving agricultural extension and rural advisory services, empowering farmer communities, keeping farmers and rural entrepreneurs informed about agricultural innovations, weather conditions, input availability, financial services and market prices and connecting them with buyers, and stresses the need to ensure the access of women and youth to information and communications technology, digitalization and e-agriculture, especially in rural areas;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support (2016), para. 07
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- Welcoming the adoption of Agenda 2063 by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union at its twenty-fourth ordinary session, held in Addis Ababa on 30 and 31 January 2015, as the African Union long-term strategy emphasizing industrialization, youth employment, improved natural resource governance and the reduction of inequalities,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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