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Protecting children from bullying (2015), para. 20 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (d) To raise public awareness, involving family members, legal guardians, caregivers, youth, schools, communities, community leaders and the media as well as civil society organizations, with the participation of children, regarding the protection of children from bullying; |
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Policies and programmes involving youth (2016), para. 02 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Recalling 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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Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2019), para. 083 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 17. Recommends that Member States adopt multisectoral crime prevention policies and programmes for youth, taking into consideration their varying needs, and safeguard their well-being, recognizing that youth may face specific challenges and risk factors that make them particularly vulnerable to crime, all forms of viol ence, terrorism and victimization; |
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Cooperatives in social development (2016), para. 03 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Recognizing that cooperatives, in their various forms, promote the fullest possible participation in the economic and social development of all people, including women, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples, are becoming a significant factor of economic and social development and contribute to the eradication of poverty and hunger, |
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Violence against women migrant workers (1995), para. 26 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 15. Invites the World Summit for Social Development, the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace and the Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders to consider including in their respective programmes of action the subject of the traffic in women and girls, as well as youth; |
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Implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the Secretary-General on the causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa (2016), para. 23 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Encouraging the United Nations system, the African Union and subregional organizations to enhance their interaction with civil society, including women’s and youth associations, academia and research institutions on issues relevant to the promotion of peace, security and sustainable development in Africa, and welcoming the ongoing efforts in this regard, including by the Office of the Special Adviser on Africa, |
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Youth, disarmament and non-proliferation (2019), para. 10 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Mindful of the initiatives and activities undertaken by Member States, the United Nations entities and relevant civil society organizations for the implementation of the World Programme of Action for Youth 1 and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, 2 |
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Policies and programmes involving youth (2010), para. 27 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (c) Promoting, where appropriate, the physical and legal separation of juvenile from adult judicial and penal systems; |
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Policies and programmes involving youth: youth in the global economy – promoting youth participation in social and economic development (2008), para. 111 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 48. Governments should take all feasible measures to ensure that members of their armed forces who have not attained the age of 18 years do not take direct part in hostilities and that those who have not attained the age of 18 years are not compulsorily recruited into their armed forces. |
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 108 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 61 (m). Commit to reducing the risk of HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women by providing them with quality information and education, mentoring, social protection and social services, which evidence shows reduce their risk of HIV infection, by ensuring girls’ access and transition to secondary and tertiary education and addressing barriers to retention, and by providing women with psychosocial support and vocational training to facilitate their transition from education to decent work; |
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 145 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 65 (d). Work towards ensuring that at least 81 per cent of the number of children and young adolescents (under the age of 15) are on treatment in 2020, in Asia and the Pacific reaching 95,000, in Eastern and Southern Africa reaching 690,000, in the Middle East and North Africa reaching 8,000, in Western and Central Africa reaching 340,000, in Eastern Europe and Central Asia reaching 7,600, in Latin America and the Caribbean reaching 17,000, and in Western and Central Europe and North America reaching 1,300, ensuring equal access to treatment for girls and boys; |
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2017), para. 45 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 34. Notes with concern that a large proportion of the world’s out-of-school population lives in conflict-affected areas, and welcomes the commitment in the New York Declaration to lend host countries support in providing quality primary and secondary education in safe learning environments for all refugee children, and to do so within a few months of the initial displacement, as well as the commitment made in the Incheon Declaration: Education 2030: Towards inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all to developing more inclusive, responsive and resilient education systems to meet the needs of children, youth and adults in these contexts, including internally displaced persons and refugees; |
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Human resources management (2013), para. 44 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 38. Notes the implementation of the new young professionals programme, and requests the Secretary-General to monitor its progress towards achieving improved geographical representation of underrepresented and unrepresented Member States; |
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2018), para. 13 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (b) The landmark political agreement between the Federal Government and federal Member States, which paves the way for the drafting, consultation and passage of an electoral law by December 2018 as a first step towards realizing historic one-person, one-vote elections in 2020 and, in particular, the commitment of the Federal Government, federal Member States and the National Independent Election Commission to protect inclusivity in terms of ensuring equal participation and representation of women in decision-making, as well as of displaced persons, young persons, persons with disabilities, minorities and all members of disadvantaged groups, at all stages of the electoral cycle; |
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Entrepreneurship for sustainable development (2019), para. 37 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 9. Invites Member States to strengthen the capacity of national financial institutions to reach out to those who have no access to banking, insurance and other financial services, particularly women and women-led micro-, small and medium- sized enterprises, green and inclusive businesses, and digital entrepreneurs, in urban and especially in rural areas, including through the use of innovative tools, including mobile banking, payment platforms and digitalized payments, and encourages them to adopt regulatory and supervisory frameworks that facilitate the safe and sound provision of financial services, increase access to information to protect consumers and promote financial literacy, particularly for women, young people and the most vulnerable people; |
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Policies and programmes involving youth: tenth anniversary of the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond (2005), para. 10 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 6. Urges, in recognition of the importance of ensuring the equitable geographical participation of non-governmental youth organizations in the tenth anniversary of the World Programme of Action, relevant United Nations entities to assist non-governmental organizations that do not have the resources, in particular non-governmental organizations from developing countries, including the least developed countries and countries with economies in transition, to participate in the tenth anniversary; |
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Integrating volunteering in the next decade (2013), para. 25 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 18. Reaffirms the need to encourage volunteerism in all its forms, which contributes significantly to the cohesiveness and the well-being of communities and of societies as a whole and which involves and benefits all segments of society, especially women, children, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities, minorities, migrants and those who remain excluded for social or economic reasons; |
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Consolidating gains and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa, by 2030 (2017), para. 29 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Gravely concerned about the health burden of malaria worldwide, with 212 million cases and 429,000 deaths reported in 2015 alone, 9 in particular in sub-Saharan Africa, where an estimated 90 per cent of the deaths occur, affecting mostly young children, |
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Promoting human rights through sport and the Olympic ideal (2018), para. 20 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Acknowledging also the joint endeavours of the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee and the United Nations system in such fields as human development, poverty alleviation, humanitarian assistance, health promotion, HIV and AIDS prevention, child and youth education, gender equality, peacebuilding and sustainable development, |
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Policies and programmes involving youth (2016), para. 05 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Recalling that Member States have an important role in meeting the needs and aspirations of youth, including youth with disabilities, and recognizing that the ways in which young people are able to fulfil their potential will influence social and economic conditions and the well-being and livelihood of future generations, |
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2017), para. 11 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Expressing concern that, in some cases, suicide rates in indigenous peoples’ communities, in particular among indigenous youth and children, are significantly higher than in the general population, |
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Culture and sustainable development (2020), para. 06 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Welcoming the holding of the 2019 Climate Action Summit convened by the Secretary-General on 23 September, taking note of the multi-partner initiatives and commitments presented during the Summit, and taking note also of the Youth Climate Summit, held on 21 September, |
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Policies and programmes involving youth: youth in the global economy – promoting youth participation in social and economic development (2008), para. 020 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (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; |
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Policies and programmes involving youth: youth in the global economy – promoting youth participation in social and economic development (2008), para. 068 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 16. Governments, in collaboration with relevant actors in the information society, should ensure that young people are equipped with knowledge and skills to use ICT appropriately, including the capacity to analyse and treat information in creative and innovative ways, to share their expertise and to participate fully in the information society. Efforts should be made to provide special training courses for in-school and out-of-school youth to enable them to become conversant with ICT and to facilitate their use of such technologies. |
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Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) (2016), para. 71 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 34. Urges Member States to address the global challenge of youth unemployment by developing and implementing strategies that give young people, including young women, everywhere a real chance to find decent and productive work, and in this context stresses the need for the development of a global strategy on youth employment, building upon, inter alia, the Global Jobs Pact and the call for action by the International Labour Organization; |
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International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non- Violence for the Children of the World, 2001–2010 (2010), para. 26 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 9. Encourages the involvement of the mass media in education for a culture of peace and non-violence, with particular regard to children and young people, including through the planned expansion of the Culture of Peace News Network as a global network of Internet sites in many languages; |
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Policies and programmes involving youth (2020), para. 06 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Reaffirming that fulfilling the human rights, needs and well-being of youth, including adolescents and young women, is critical to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as well as other United Nations conferences and summits, including the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 11 the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 12 and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 13 and their review conferences, |
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Integrating sport into youth crime prevention and criminal justice strategies (2020), para. 11 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Recalling further the outcome document of the thirtieth special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Our joint commitment to effectively addressing and countering the world drug problem”, 12 in which Member States recommended providing access for children and youth to regular sports and cultural activities, with a view to promoting healthy lives and lifestyles and as a measure to prevent drug abuse, and recognizing the relevance of this measure for the enhancement of crime prevention and criminal justice more widely, |
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United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030) (2019), para. 50 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 6. Stresses the importance of the full involvement of all relevant stakeholders, including women, children according to their evolving capacities, young people, older persons, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and local communities, in the context of the Decade at all levels; |
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Questions relating to informationInformation in the service of humanity (2018), para. 129 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 93. Stresses that the central objective of the outreach and knowledge services implemented by the Department of Public Information is to promote awareness of the role and work of the United Nations by fostering dialogue with global constituencies, such as academia, civil society, educators, students and youth, with the overall emphasis on multilingualism from the planning stage, in close collaboration with the substantive departments, specialized agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations; |
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