Youth, Its Education in the Respect for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Its Problems and Needs, and Its Participation in National Development

A/RES/2633(XXV)No PDF available

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1970.

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1970A/RES/2497(XXIV)Youth, its education in the respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, its problems and needs, and its participation in national development

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Cultural Cooperation Educational Programmes Human Rights Education Persons with Disabilities Regional Programmes Rural Areas Scientific Cooperation Young Workers Youth Youth Organizations

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13 operative paragraphs

Considers that the efforts of young people should be directed towards strengthening peace based on justice and friendshlp among peoples, against the threat of war, against all forros of oppression and exploitation and towards the development of fruitful economic, scientific and cultural co-operation among all countries;

3, Emphasi;,,es the efforts of the World Youth Assembly;

Requests the S1:cretary-General to consult Govemments and the specialized agencies concemed on

1 See World Youth Assembly, document 56/WYA/P/10.

2 ST/TAO/HR/39. General Aaeembly-Twenty-fifth SeHion

the possibility of convening, in the future, world youth assemblies in the light of the experience gained during the organization of the first World Youth Assembly, especially keeping in mind the need for rules of procedure that ensure fair treatment and the full participation of a1l youth representatives, for a truly universal representation and for the strict observance of freedr,,n of speech, as well as the financial irnplications and other relev~nt aspects, and to submit, when appropriate, a report to the General Assembly through the Economic and Social Council;

Recognizes the valuable contribution to intemational understanding made by youth organizations, both national and intemational, and calls upon them to intensify their efforts to encourage contacts between youth in the world;

Emphasizes the urgency of youth's participation in the social, economic, political, cultural and other domains of human activities;

Further emphasizes that it is necessary and important that young people should be fully aware of the positive and specific role they should play in the development of their countries, and of the duties incumbent upon them by virtue of the very exercise of their rights;

W elcomes the generous contribution to voluntary services which youth is already making;

Calls upon Governments, all institutions of learning, the United N ations organs and the specialized agencies concerned and a1l other organizatlons concerned to act in such a way as to ensure the education of young people in the spirit of the ideas of peace based on justice, co-operation among peoples, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and the principies of international law, and also to take effective steps to combat propaganda in favour of unjust wars, as well as to combat racist, Nazi and similar ideologies;

Considers it irnportant that young people of a1l countries of the world should resolutely oppose military and other action designed to suppress the liberation movements of peoples still under colonial, racist or alien domination and under military occupation, and should support those peoples in every way possible in conformity with the principies of the Charter of the United Nations and the decisions of United Nations organs recognizing the legitimacy of the struggle of the peoples for their freedom and independence, in their efforts to attain independence in accordance with the inalienable right of self-determination;

Urges Governments to respond to the aspirations of youth and to talce further urgent and effective measures, in accordance with the principies of the Charter, to support the struggle for peace and justice, intemational security, self-determination, the liberation of peoples and territories subjected to racist, colonial and aben domination, the elimination of colonial and foreign occupation, non-interference in the interna! affairs of other States, respect for the territorial integrity and independence of States and the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, and to eradicate racism, nazism and similar totalitarian ideologies and practices which are based on terror and racial intolerance, apartheid and all other forros of discrimination;

Recommends that youth be fully involved in the efforts to accelerate the over-•all growth of developing countries, bearing in mind the special social and economic situation of youth in these countries;

1~. Calls upon the developed countries to respond to the apeeal of young people to provide financial and other ass1stance to the developing countries in their efforts to carry out their developmental policies in order to implement the aims of the Second United Nations Development Decade;

Requests Governments and educational institutions, taking into ~ccount in particular the relevant studies and recommendations of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to encourage, as appropriate, closer association of young people in the plannmg and management of education programmes so as to enable them to participate in the solution of their own problems, in the over-all development of educational systems and in the planning and operation of govemmental programmes designed to serve youth;

Requests the Secretary-General and the specialized agencies concemed to continue to undertake, on a regional and on a world-wide basis, programmes and projects related to the problems and needs of youth, especially those of the handicapped, young workers and rural youth, and their participation in national development, as well as their role in the promotion and protection of human rights, and to co-operate closely, as appropriate, with youth organizations;

Decides to resume the consideration of this itero in the future, taking into account in particular the advisability of considering the question of the implementation of the Declaration on the Promotion among Youth of the Ideals of Peace, Mutual Respect and Understanding between Peoples.

11 November 1970.

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