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25 February 2014 | Youth
Agriculture is not glamorous. It suffers from entrenched negative perceptions. In the minds of many African youths, a farmer is someone like their parents, doing backbreaking labour in the fields and getting little to show for it. Nonetheless,…
19 February 2014 | Youth
The Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, in partnership with other UN entities, international NGOs, and youth groups and stakeholders, launched a crowdsourcing initiative for youth priorities in the post-2015 development agenda. The…
18 February 2014 | Youth
A global initiative to empower young entrepreneurs for positive change
The Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition is an international contest launched by The Goi Peace Foundation, Stiftung Entrepreneurship (Berlin) and UNESCO.
The competition…
14 February 2014 | Ageing, Disabilities, Youth
Employment remained a challenge for persons with disabilities in many countries, a United Nations expert told the Commission for Social Development.
Shuaib Chalklen, the Commission’s Special Rapporteur on Disability, urged Member States to…
14 February 2014 | Ageing, Disabilities, Youth
Employment remained a challenge for persons with disabilities in many countries, a United Nations expert told the Commission for Social Development.
Shuaib Chalklen, the Commission’s Special Rapporteur on Disability, urged Member States to…
14 February 2014 | Ageing, Disabilities, Youth
Employment remained a challenge for persons with disabilities in many countries, a United Nations expert told the Commission for Social Development.
Shuaib Chalklen, the Commission’s Special Rapporteur on Disability, urged Member States to…
13 January 2014 | Youth
Encompassing more than one billion, today’s generation of youth is the largest the world has ever known. For some of them, mental-health conditions are the leading causes of adjustment problems, affecting their integration into society and…