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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/49/154
7 February 1995
Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 95
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/49/605)]
49/154.
Policies and programmes involving youth
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 32/135 of 16 December 1977 and 36/17 of
9 November 1981, by which it adopted guidelines for the improvement of the
channels of communication between the United Nations and youth and youth
organizations, resolution 40/14 of 18 November 1985, entitled "International
Youth Year: Participation, Development, Peace", and resolution 45/103 of
14 December 1990, in which it decided to devote a plenary meeting at its
fiftieth session to youth questions,
Noting that the year 1995 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the
Charter of the United Nations and the tenth anniversary of International Youth
Year,
Recognizing that, in implementing the guidelines, priority should be
given to the enjoyment by youth of human rights, including the right to
education and to work, and to the resolution of other urgent problems faced by
young people in the present-day world, such as hunger, the deterioration of
the environment, drug abuse, disability and disease, including acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS),
Recalling the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1/ which entered
into force on 2 September 1990, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of
Action, adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993, 2/
the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children
and the Plan of Action for Implementing the World Declaration on the Survival,
1/
Resolution 44/25, annex.
2/
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
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