International Youth Day

International Youth Day

The aim of International Youth Day is to promote, especially among young people, the World Program of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond.
"Youth is the future of man"

This program promotes action for young people in ten priority areas: education, employment, malnutrition and poverty, health, environment, drug addiction, juvenile delinquency, leisure, girls and young women and full participation of young people in the life of Society and decision-making. Implementation of the Program at the national, regional and global levels is also recommended.

Young people, according to the United Nations criteria corresponding to the age group 15 to 24 years, represent one sixth of the world's population. The majority of these young men and women live in developing countries and their number is expected to increase substantially in the twenty-first century.

It was in 1991 that the youth gathered in Vienna, Austria, for the first World Youth Forum organized by the United Nations system proposed the establishment of an International Youth Day. The Forum recommended that such a Day be celebrated in partnership with youth associations with the specific objective of organizing promotional activities and fund-raising to support the United Nations Youth Fund. In 1998, by a resolution adopted at the First World Conference of Ministers of Youth - held by the Portuguese Government in collaboration with the United Nations in Lisbon from 8 to 12 August 1998 - 12 August was declared International Youth Day . This recommendation was subsequently endorsed at the fifty-fourth session of the General Assembly by the adoption of resolution A / RES / 54/120 of 17 December 1999 entitled "Policies and programs for young people.

See also World Youth Days

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