Search Tips
sorted by
30 shown of 144 entities
Rights of indigenous peoples 2015, para. 10
- Paragraph text
- Expressing concern that, in some cases, indigenous peoples' communities frequently experience suicide rates, in particular among indigenous youth and children, which are significantly higher than among the general population,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Youth
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
The girl child 2009, para. 21
- Paragraph text
- Emphasizing that increased access to education, including in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, for young people, especially girls, dramatically lowers their vulnerability to preventable diseases, in particular HIV infection and sexually transmitted diseases,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Youth
- Year
- 2009
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Policies and programmes involving youth 2003, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- Guided by the Charter of the United Nations as well as other relevant international instruments, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the two Optional Protocols thereto,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2003
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Promoting youth employment 2002, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming the resolve of heads of State and Government, as contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, to develop and implement strategies that give young people everywhere a real chance to find decent and productive work,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2002
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Policies and programmes involving youth 2001, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- Recalling its resolution 50/81 of 14 December 1995, by which it adopted the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond, annexed thereto, as an integral part of that resolution,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2001
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Policies and programmes involving youth 1999, para. 4
- Paragraph text
- Noting that, in paragraph 124 of the Programme of Action, youth-related bodies and organizations of the United Nations system were invited to cooperate with the above-mentioned conferences,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 1999
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Policies and programmes involving youth 1999, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- Recalling its resolution 50/81 of 14 December 1995, by which it adopted the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond, annexed thereto, as an integral part of that resolution,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 1999
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Policies and programmes involving youth 1997, para. 5
- Paragraph text
- Noting that the third session of the World Youth Forum, convened by the United Nations in partnership with the Portuguese National Youth Council, will be held at Braga, Portugal, from 2 to 6 August 1998,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 1997
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
The girl child 2007, para. 16
- Paragraph text
- Emphasizing that increased access to education, including in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, for young people, especially girls, dramatically lowers their vulnerability to preventable diseases, in particular HIV/AIDS infection and sexually transmitted diseases,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Youth
- Year
- 2007
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
The girl child 2005, para. 13
- Paragraph text
- Emphasizing that increased access to education, including in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, for young people, especially girls, dramatically lowers their vulnerability to preventable diseases, in particular HIV/AIDS infection and sexually transmitted diseases,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Youth
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Human rights and extreme poverty 2016, para. 14
- Paragraph text
- Stressing that special attention should be given to those who are living in extreme poverty and in vulnerable situations, in particular women, children, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Human rights and extreme poverty 2014, para. 12
- Paragraph text
- Stressing that special attention should be given to those who are living in extreme poverty and in vulnerable situations, in particular women, children, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Policies and programmes involving youth 2003, para. 4
- Paragraph text
- Recalling and reaffirming the commitments made at the major United Nations conferences and summits held since 1990 and their follow-up processes, in particular those commitments that are related to youth, including youth employment,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2003
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Policies and programmes involving youth 2001, para. 5
- Paragraph text
- Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted by the heads of State and Government on 8 September 2000, and recognizing that the Declaration includes important goals and targets pertaining to youth,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2001
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Policies and programmes involving youth 2001, para. 3
- Paragraph text
- Recalling further its resolution 54/120 of 17 December 1999, in which it took note with appreciation of the Lisbon Declaration on Youth Policies and Programmes adopted at the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth in 1998,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2001
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Policies and programmes involving youth 1997, para. 6
- Paragraph text
- Reiterating the call, in paragraph 112 of the World Programme of Action, to all States that have not already done so to formulate and adopt an integrated national youth policy, in consultation with youth and youth-related organizations,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 1997
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Policies and programmes involving youth 1997, para. 4
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the report of the World Youth Forum of the United Nations system on its second session, convened by the United Nations in partnership with the Austrian Federal Youth Council, and held at Vienna from 25 to 29 November 1996,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 1997
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Traffic in women and girls 1996, para. 6
- Paragraph text
- Noting with concern the increasing number of women and girl children from developing countries and from some countries with economies in transition who are being victimized by traffickers, and acknowledging that the problem of trafficking also victimizes young boys,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 1996
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Traffic in women and girls 1995, para. 9
- Paragraph text
- Noting with concern the increasing number of women and girl children from developing countries and from some countries with economies in transition who are being victimized by traffickers, and acknowledging that the problem of trafficking also victimizes young boys,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula 2016, para. 5
- Paragraph text
- Stressing the interlinkages between poverty, malnutrition, lack of or inadequate or inaccessible health-care services, early childbearing, child, early and forced marriage, violence against young women and girls and gender inequality as root causes of obstetric fistula, and that poverty remains the main social risk factor,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Policies and programmes involving youth 2015, para. 9
- Paragraph text
- Noting the convening of the World Conference on Youth, held in Sri Lanka in May 2014, the first Global Forum on Youth Policies, held in Azerbaijan in October 2014, and the Global Forum on Youth, Peace and Security, held in Jordan in August 2015,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Policies and programmes involving youth 2015, para. 8
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming also the role of the Envoy of the Secretary-General on Youth and his work in addressing the needs of youth, as well as, inter alia, as a harmonizer with different United Nations entities, Governments, civil society, youth organizations, academia and media towards enhancing, empowering and strengthening the position of young people within and outside of the United Nations system,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Policies and programmes involving youth 2015, para. 7
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the high-level event held by the General Assembly on 29 May 2015 to mark the twentieth anniversary of the World Programme of Action for Youth, which offered an important opportunity for Member States and other relevant stakeholders to take stock of progress made in its implementation, as well as to identify gaps and challenges and the way forward for its full, effective and accelerated implementation,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Policies and programmes involving youth 2015, para. 6
- Paragraph text
- Recalling the adoption of the outcome document of the United Nations summit for the adoption of the post 2015 development agenda, entitled "Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development", by Heads of State and Government on 25 September 2015, and recognizing that the 2030 Agenda includes important goals and targets pertaining to youth,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Policies and programmes involving youth 2015, para. 4
- Paragraph text
- 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,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Policies and programmes involving youth 2015, para. 3
- Paragraph text
- Affirming that generating decent work and quality employment for youth is one of the biggest challenges that needs to be tackled, as well as emphasizing the priority areas of the World Programme of Action for Youth linked to the employability of youth, including education, health and access to information and technology, and bearing in mind that over 73 million young people are unemployed,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of indigenous peoples 2016, para. 22
- Paragraph text
- Stressing the need to pay particular attention to the rights and special needs of indigenous women, children, youth, older persons and persons with disabilities, as set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including in the process of protecting and promoting their access to justice,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of indigenous peoples 2016, para. 15
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the importance of access to justice in the promotion and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples and individuals and the need to examine and take steps to remove obstacles to justice, especially for indigenous women, indigenous youth and indigenous persons with disabilities,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
The rights of the child 2015, para. 10
- Paragraph text
- Acknowledging the important role played by national governmental structures for children, including, where they exist, ministries and institutions in charge of child, family and youth issues and independent ombudspersons for children or other national institutions for the promotion and protection of the rights of the child,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Youth
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
The girl child 2015, para. 21
- Paragraph text
- Emphasizing that increased and equal access to quality education for young people, especially adolescent girls, including in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, as well as health care, hygiene and sanitation, dramatically lowers their vulnerability to preventable diseases and infections, in particular HIV and other sexually transmitted infections,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Girls
- Youth
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph