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Young People’s Transition to Adulthood: Progress and Challenges
The World Youth Report 2007 examines the challenges and opportunities existing for the roughly 1.2 billion young people between the ages of 15 and 24 in the world. Distinct from the 2003 and 2005 editions, it provides a regional overview summarizing the major youth development trends in the fifteen priority areas of the World Programme of Action for Youth. The report explores major issues of concern to youth development, including employment, education, health, poverty and violence. At the same time, it highlights youth as a positive force for development and provides recommendations for supporting their essential…
UN General Assembly Reports on Social Development |
A/62/61-E.2007/7
UN General Assembly Reports on Social Development |
A/62/61/Add.1-E/2007/7/Add.1
UN General Assembly Reports on Social Development |
UN ECOSOC Reports on Social Development |
UN ECOSOC Reports on Social Development |
UN ECOSOC Reports on Social Development |
UN ECOSOC Reports on Social Development |
Flagship Reports |
Young people today, and in 2015
The year 2005 marks ten years since the General Assembly adopted the World Programme of Action for Youth in 1995. This report, an official report to the General Assembly, called for a renewed committment to the goals of the World Programme of Action, since over 200 million youth were living in poverty, 130 million youth were illiterate, 88 million were unemployed and 10 million young people were living with HIV/AIDS.
In the World Youth Report 2005, it is argued that too often, youth policy is driven by negative stereotypes of young people, including delinquency, drug abuse and violence. What seems to be forgotten is that young people are a positive…
UN General Assembly Reports on Social Development |
A/60/61-E/2005/7