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Policies and programmes involving youth: youth in the global economy – promoting youth participation in social and economic development (2008), para. 105
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- 44. Youth are often among the main victims of armed conflict. Children and youth are killed or maimed, made orphans, abducted, taken hostage, forcibly displaced, deprived of education and health care and left with deep emotional scars and trauma. Children illegally recruited as child soldiers are often forced to commit serious abuses. Armed conflict destroys the safe environment provided by a house, a family, adequate nutrition, education and employment. During conflict, health risks increase among youth, especially young women. Young women and girls face additional risks, in particular those of sexual violence and exploitation.
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (2019), para. 144
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- 6. Where appropriate, States shall take appropriate measures to carry out agrarian reforms in order to facilitate the broad and equitable access to land and other natural resources necessary to ensure that peasants and other people working in rural areas enjoy adequate living conditions, and to limit excessive concentration and control of land, taking into account its social function. Landless peasants, young people, small - scale fishers and other rural workers should be given priority in the allocation of public lands, fisheries and forests.
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Economic Rights
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2014), para. 33
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- 21. Recognizes the importance of strengthening intergenerational partnerships and solidarity among generations, and in this regard calls upon Member States to promote opportunities for voluntary, constructive and regular interaction between young people and older generations in the family, the workplace and society at large;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Policies and programmes involving youth (2018), para. 07
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- Welcoming the effective participation of youth representatives in national delegations at the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and it s functional commissions and relevant United Nations conferences,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) (2016), para. 040
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- 27. Reiterates its invitation to Member States and Habitat Agenda partners to formulate and implement sustainable urban development policies that promote just, resilient and inclusive cities and human settlements, considering the contributions of all relevant stakeholders, with a particular focus on the needs of women and those who are most vulnerable, including children and youth, older persons, persons living with disability, rural-to-urban migrants, internally displaced persons and indigenous peoples;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Policies and programmes involving youth: youth in the global economy – promoting youth participation in social and economic development (2008), para. 102
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- 42. Governments should intensify efforts to enact, strengthen or enforce, as appropriate, legislation, regulations and other measures to eliminate all forms of discrimination and to ensure the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by youth living with HIV, including policies to secure their access to education, inheritance, employment, health care, social and health services, prevention, support and treatment, information and legal protection, while respecting their privacy and confidentiality and developing strategies to combat the stigma and social exclusion connected with the epidemic.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2018), para. 31
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- 3. Considers it intolerable that, as estimated by the United Nations Children’s Fund, nearly half of all deaths of children under the age of 5 are attributable to undernutrition, translating into the loss of about 3 million young lives a year and that, as estimated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, about 815 million people in the world suffer from chronic hunger owing to the lack of sufficient food for the conduct of an active and healthy life, including as one of the effects derived from food insecurity, while, according to the Organization, the planet could produce enough food to feed everyone around the world;
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2020), para. 11
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- Welcoming also the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028) 15 and noting that sustainable agricultural technology, digitalization as well as technological, social, economic and institutional innovations build on the knowledge and capacities and respond to the needs and realities of smallholders and family farmers, in particular women and youth in rural areas, and in that regard highlighting __________________ the importance of innovation-driven development and support to entrepreneurship and innovation, and welcoming new sustainable agricultural technologies that can contribute to their transition from subsistence farming to innovative, commercial production, helping them to increase their own food security and nutrition, generate marketable surpluses and add value to their production,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Policies and programmes involving youth (2020), para. 27
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- 2. Reaffirms the World Programme of Action for Youth, 19 and emphasizes that all 15 priority areas of the Programme of Action are interrelated and mutually reinforcing and the role that the Commission for Social Development plays in implementing it;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Policies and programmes involving youth (2014), para. 15
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- 5. Also urges Member States to address the challenges faced by girls and young women and to address gender stereotypes that perpetuate discrimination and violence against girls and young women and the stereotypical roles of men and women that hinder social development by reaffirming the commitment to the empowerment of women and gender equality, to engage, educate, encourage and support men and boys to take responsibility for their behaviour, including their sexual and reproductive behaviour, to mainstream a gender perspective into all development efforts, recognizing that such actions 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 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 and strengthening their economic independence;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Observer status for the International Youth Organization for Ibero-America in the General Assembly (2016), para. 3
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- 1. Decides to invite the International Youth Organization for Ibero-America to participate in the sessions and the work of the General Assembly in the capacity of observer;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia andrelated intolerance (2015), para. 23
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- 14. Stresses that the practices described above do injustice to the memory of the countless victims of crimes against humanity committed in the Second World War, in particular those committed by the SS organization and by those who fought against the anti-Hitler coalition and collaborated with the Nazi movement, and may negatively influence children and young people, and that failure by States to effectively address such practices is incompatible with the obligations of States Members of the United Nations under its Charter, including those related to the purposes and principles of the Organization;
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Political Declaration of the Comprehensive High-level Midterm Review of the Implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–2020 (2016), para. 143
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- 112. We stress the importance of working on conflict prevention and peacebuilding to promote social cohesion and of empowering the least developed countries to become inclusive and resilient to external and internal shocks that could result in new cycles of violence. Conflict prevention measures with adequate early warning and risk assessment tools can assist in avoiding or at least mitigating adverse impacts of shocks. We express our commitment to take earl y action to prevent extreme violence and armed conflict by supporting and strengthening core governance institutions, strengthening national capacities for conflict prevention and management of ongoing tensions with civil society and marginalized communiti es, including women and youth, facilitating dialogue and consensus-building, and mainstreaming conflict prevention and early warning in development within the United Nations system through conflict analysis and assessment.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Policies and programmes involving youth (2016), para. 07
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- 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, 1 and recognizing that the 2030 Agenda includes important goals and targets pertaining to youth,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Policies and programmes involving youth (2020), para. 53
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- 28. Further urges Member States to address legal, administrative, social, economic, digital and cultural barriers that limit young people’s participation and representation, while enabling the capacities, resources, information, technology, support, space and skills needed to empower the free, active, independent, full and effective participation of youth, including youth in vulnerable situations;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Literacy Decade: education for all (2011), para. 22
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- 5. Calls upon Member States, their development partners, the international donor community, the private sector and civil society, in accordance with national law, to further scale up quality literacy efforts and consider the post-2012 strategy for addressing youth and adult literacy challenges, bearing in mind that just over two years remain of the Decade and that the target date of 2015 for the achievement of the Education for All goals and the Millennium Development Goals is approaching;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International financial system and development (2017), para. 16
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- Expressing concern about the adverse impact of the continuing fragility and slowdown of global growth and trade, including on development, cognizant that the global economy remains in a challenging phase, with many downside risks, including capital outflows from some emerging and developing economies, continued low commodity prices, high unemployment, particularly among young people, and rising private and public indebtedness in many developing countries, and stressing 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 upon to date to attend to these challenges and to make progress towards sustaining global demand,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace (2013), para. 27
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- 9. Commends civil society, non-governmental organizations and young people for their activities in further promoting a culture of peace and non-violence, including through their campaign to raise awareness on a culture of peace and the peaceful settlement of disputes;
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Policies and programmes involving youth (2010), para. 18
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- (c) To ensure the involvement of young people in the renewable and sustainable energy sectors, through access to adequate education and training, the promotion of youth employment and entrepreneurship opportunities and cooperation initiatives in these sectors;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation against the world drug problem (2015), para. 13
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- Recognizing the importance of preventing and addressing drug-related youth crime, considering its impact on the social and economic development of societies, and supporting the rehabilitation and treatment of young offenders and their reintegration into society,
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Policies and programmes involving youth (2010), para. 32
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- (a) Creating effective channels of cooperation and information exchange among young people, their national Governments and other decision makers;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace (2018), para. 40
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- 12. Encourages the involvement of media, especially the mass media, in promoting a culture of peace and non-violence, with particular regard to children and young people;
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and capacity-building to improve human rights in Libya (2017), para. 14
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- Underscoring the importance of the equal and full participation of all members of Libyan society, including women, civil society and youth, in the political process,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 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. 23
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- Recognizing that, since the convening of the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen in 1995, advances have been made in addressing and promoting social integration, including through the adoption of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, 10 the World Programme of Action for Youth, 11 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 13 and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 14
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 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 (2010), para. 41
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- 27. Encourages States to promote youth employment by, inter alia, developing and implementing action plans in collaboration with all relevant stakeholders;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2020), para. 038
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- 13. Calls upon States to scale up scientifically accurate and age-appropriate comprehensive education, relevant to cultural contexts, that provides adolescent girls and boys and young women and men, in and out of school, consistent with their evolving capacities, and with appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians, with the best interests of the child as their basic concern, with information on sexual and reproductive health and HIV prevention, gender equality and women’s empowerment, human rights, physical, psychological and pubertal development and power in relationships between women and men, to enable them to build self-esteem and foster informed decision-making, communication and risk- reduction skills and to develop respectful relationships, in full partnership with young people, parents, legal guardians, caregivers, educators and health-care providers, in order to, inter alia, enable them protect themselves from HIV infection and other risks;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Organization of the High-level Meeting on Youth (2011), para. 19
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- 8. Calls upon Member States to consider including in their delegation to the High-level Meeting young people who suitably and broadly represent youth in their countries, bearing in mind the principles of gender balance and non-discrimination;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal (2017), para. 21
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- Acknowledging also the importance of the Youth Olympic Games in inspiring youth through integrated sports and cultural and educational experiences, noting in this regard the successful conclusion of the second Youth Winter Olympic Games, held in Lillehammer, Norway, from 12 to 21 February 2016, and welcoming the third Youth Summer Olympic Games, to be held in Buenos Aires from 6 to 18 October 2018,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal (2017), para. 20
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- Acknowledging the joint endeavours of the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee and relevant United Nations entities in such fields as the promotion of human rights, human development, poverty alleviation, humanitarian assistance, health promotion, HIV and AIDS prevention, child and youth education, gender equality, peacebuilding and sustainable development,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2020), para. 30
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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 encourages international, regional and national efforts to strengthen capacity and foster the utilization of local know -how in developing countries, especially that of smallholder and family farmers, in particular rural women and youth, in order to enhance the productivity and nutritional quality of food crops and animal products, promote sustainable practices in pre -harvest and post-harvest agricultural activities and enhance food security and nutrition-related programmes and policies that take into consideration the specific needs of women, young children and youth, with particular attention to securing the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, strengthening progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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