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Right to work, para. 45
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- 28. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare an analytical report, in consultation with States, relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, particularly the International Labour Organization, and the treaty bodies, the special procedures, civil society, national human rights institutions and other stakeholders, on the relationship between the realization of the right to work and the enjoyment of all human rights by young people, with an emphasis on their empowerment, in accordance with States’ respective obligations under international human rights law, to indicate the major challenges and best practices in that regard, and to submit the report to the Human Rights Council prior to its fortieth session;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Right to work, para. 34
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- 18. Stresses that all States committed, in the 2030 Agenda, to leaving no one behind and to reaching the furthest behind first, and, in order to promote the achievement of that principle, States are encouraged to create conditions for sustainable, inclusive and sustained economic growth and decent work for all and to promote the employment of young people and women’s economic empowerment;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Right to work, para. 31
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- 15. Stresses the fundamental importance of equal opportunities, education, technical and vocational training, and that lifelong learning opportunities and guidance for all, including for women, young people and persons with disabilities, are necessary for the realization of the right to work;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Right to work, para. 30
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- 14. Expresses deep concern that inequalities are widening and there are not enough jobs, including quality jobs, and emphasizes that full and productive employment and decent work for young people play an important role in their empowerment and can contribute to, inter alia, the prevention of extremism, terrorism and social, economic and political instability, thus contributing to sustainable development and peace;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Right to work, para. 29
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- 13. Notes with concern that, according to the report of the International Labour Organization Global Employment Trends for Youth 2017, although there has been a modest economic recovery, youth unemployment remains high and employment quality a concern, and young people are three times as likely as adults to be unemployed, which constitutes a serious global problem;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Right to work, para. 28
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- 12. Expresses concern that, according to the report of the International Labour Organization World Employment Social Outlook: Trends 2018, many countries continue to report high rates of labour underutilization, with large shares of discouraged workers and growing incidence of involuntary part-time employment, affecting in large part young people;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, para. 26
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- 6 (g) Ensuring the full and effective participation of minority youth in economic life, as appropriate, without discrimination based on language, religion or ethnicity, including by developing training and professional orientation programmes and ensuring that such programmes are made available in minority languages;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Youth
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Policies and programmes involving youth 2003, para. 20
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- Further requests the Secretary-General to include in his report to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session a global analysis and evaluation of national action plans on youth employment.
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2003
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Policies and programmes involving youth 2011, para. 9
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- Calls upon Member States to promote the well-being of young people, particularly the poor and the marginalized, through comprehensive policies and action plans and, in particular, to address poverty, employment and social integration as fundamental aspects of their national development agendas, and encourages the international community and the United Nations system to support Member States in this regard;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Policies and programmes involving youth 2011, para. 4
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- Expresses deep concern that the attainment of the social development objectives may be hindered by the multiple and interrelated crises, including the ongoing impact of the financial and economic crisis, volatile energy and food prices and ongoing concerns over food security, as well as the increasing challenges posed by climate change and the loss of biodiversity;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Policies and programmes involving youth: youth in the global economy: promoting youth participation in social and economic development 2007, para. 2
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- Decides to adopt the Supplement to the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond, annexed to the present resolution;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2007
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Policies and programmes involving youth: youth in the global economy: promoting youth participation in social and economic development 2007, para. 1
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- Reaffirms the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2007
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Policies and programmes involving youth 2005, para. 8
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- Stresses the importance of the work of the Youth Employment Network as a peer exchange, support and review mechanism, and encourages Member States, the United Nations and partner organizations to strengthen and expand the Network at the national, regional and international levels;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Policies and programmes involving youth 2003, para. 12
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- Invites, within the context of the Youth Employment Network, the International Labour Organization, in collaboration with the Secretariat and the World Bank and other relevant specialized agencies, to assist and support, upon request, the efforts of Governments in the elaboration of national reviews and action plans and to undertake a global analysis and evaluation of progress made in this regard;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2003
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Promoting youth employment 2002, para. 3
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- Invites, within the context of the Youth Employment Network, the International Labour Organization, in collaboration with the Secretariat and the World Bank and other relevant specialized agencies, to assist and support, upon request, the efforts of Governments in the elaboration of national reviews and action plans, and to undertake a global analysis and evaluation of progress made in this regard;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2002
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Promoting youth employment 2002, para. 2
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- Encourages Member States to prepare national reviews and action plans on youth employment and to involve youth organizations and young people in this process, taking into account, inter alia, the commitments made by Member States in this regard, in particular those included in the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2002
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Policies and programmes involving youth 2011, para. 6
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- Reaffirms that the strengthening of international cooperation regarding youth, including through the fulfilment of all official development assistance commitments, the transfer of appropriate technology, capacity-building, the enhancement of dialogue, mutual understanding and the active participation of young people are crucial elements of efforts towards achieving the eradication of poverty, full employment and social integration;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Policies and programmes involving youth: youth in the global economy: promoting youth participation in social and economic development 2007, para. 3
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- Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on the follow-up to the World Programme of Action3 and the addendum thereto entitled “Goals and targets for monitoring the progress of youth in the global economy”;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2007
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Policies and programmes involving youth: youth in the global economy: promoting youth participation in social and economic development 2007, para. 10
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- Urges Member States to combat all forms of discrimination against young people, including that based on race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status, and to promote equal opportunities for all;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2007
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Policies and programmes involving youth: youth in the global economy: promoting youth participation in social and economic development 2007, para. 9
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- Calls upon the international community to continue to support the efforts of Governments, together with civil society, including youth-led organizations, the private sector and other parts of society, to anticipate and offset the negative social and economic consequences of globalization and to maximize its benefits for young people;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2007
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The work and employment of persons with disabilities 2013, para. 5c
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- [Also calls upon States parties to adopt and implement appropriate measures, including legislative measures, to ensure that persons with disabilities enjoy the right to work on an equal basis with others, including by, inter alia:] Adopting positive measures, as appropriate, to increase employment of persons with disabilities in the public and private sectors, in particular for women and youth with disabilities, persons with intellectual or psychosocial disabilities, and ensuring that such positive measures are designed and promoted in a way that recognizes the value of diversity in the workplace and of equal career development for all;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Adolescents and youth 2012, para. 20
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- Encourages Member States to meet the needs and aspirations of youth, particularly in the areas of education, work, income creation and citizen participation, through, inter alia, training programmes that result from dialogue between Governments, employers and employees of various sectors of the economy, as appropriate;
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- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Youth
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Adolescents and youth 2012, para. 38
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- Requests the Secretary-General to continue, within the framework of the implementation of the Programme of Action, the substantive work on adolescents and youth, including integrating gender and age perspectives, and other relevant perspectives, into analyses and recommendations, in collaboration and coordination with relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, and other relevant international organizations, and giving due consideration to their implications for development and poverty eradication, and sustained, equitable and inclusive economic growth.
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- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Youth
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 36
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- Urges Governments, employers' and workers' organizations and other relevant stakeholders, as appropriate, to take measures in and through workplaces to prevent and reduce the transmission of HIV and alleviate its impact by ensuring gender equality and the empowerment of women, including ensuring actions to prevent and prohibit violence, discrimination and harassment in the workplace, in line with the Recommendation concerning HIV and AIDS and the World of Work, 2010 (No. 200), of the International Labour Organization, and facilitate provision of current information on HIV and AIDS through employment programmes and services and in vocational training, especially for youth;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to work 2017, para. 17
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- Welcomes the adoption by the General Assembly of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and emphasizes that there are targets therein to "by 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value" (target 8.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals) and to "recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family, as nationally appropriate" (target 5.4 of the Sustainable Development Goals), strengthening the efforts towards gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, and calls for the implementation of its relevant goals and targets;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 2015, para. 43
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- Notes with concern that child, early and forced marriage disproportionally affects girls who have received little or no formal education and is itself a significant obstacle to educational opportunities for girls and young women, in particular girls who are forced to drop out of school owing to marriage and/or childbirth, recognizing that educational opportunities are directly related to women's and girls' empowerment, employment and economic opportunities and to their active participation in economic, social and cultural development, governance and decision-making;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Education
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of the child 2016, para. 57
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- Notes with concern that child, early and forced marriage disproportionally affects girls, including migrant girls, who have received little or no formal education and is itself a significant obstacle to educational opportunities for girls and young women, in particular girls who are forced to drop out of school owing to marriage and/or childbirth, recognizing that educational opportunities are directly related to women's and girls' empowerment, employment and economic opportunities and to their active participation in economic, social and cultural development, governance and decision-making;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Education
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in development 2013, para. 8
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- Expresses deep concern about the ongoing adverse impacts, particularly on development, of the world financial and economic crisis, recognizing evidence of an uneven and fragile recovery, and cognizant that the global economy, notwithstanding significant efforts that helped contain tail risks, improve financial market conditions and sustain recovery, still remains in a challenging phase, with downside risks, inter alia, for women and girls, including high volatility in global markets, high unemployment, particularly among youth, indebtedness in some countries and widespread fiscal strains that pose challenges for global economic recovery and reflect the need for additional progress towards sustaining and rebalancing global demand, and stresses the need for continuing efforts to address systemic fragilities and imbalances and to reform and strengthen the international financial system while implementing the reforms agreed to date, and to address the challenges posed by climate change for women and girls, and in respect of maintaining adequate levels of funding for the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Policies and programmes involving youth 2011, para. 13
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- Urges Member States to address the challenges of girls and young women, as well as gender stereotypes that perpetuate discrimination against girls and young women and stereotypic roles of men and women that are preclusive of social development, by reaffirming the commitment to the empowerment of women and gender equality, as well as to the mainstreaming of a gender perspective into all development efforts, recognizing that these are critical for achieving sustainable development and for efforts to combat hunger, poverty and disease, and to strengthen policies and programmes that improve, ensure and broaden the full participation of young women in all spheres of political, economic, social and cultural life, as equal partners, and to improve their access to all resources needed for the full exercise of all their human rights and fundamental freedoms by removing persistent barriers, including ensuring equal access to full and productive employment and decent work, as well as strengthening their economic independence;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Policies and programmes involving youth: youth in the global economy: promoting youth participation in social and economic development 2007, para. 11
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- Underlines the strategic importance of initiatives such as the Opportunities Fund for Urban Youth-led Development initiative of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, which will provide resources to mobilize young people to strengthen youth-related policy formulation and to pilot and demonstrate new and innovative approaches to employment, good governance, water and sanitation, adequate shelter and secure tenure, and invites Member States to contribute to the Fund;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2007
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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