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Physical Education and Sports Exchanges Among Young People

A/RES/36/16No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 77Policies and programmes relating to youth, published in 1981.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1979–1981
  • 1981A/RES/36/16Physical education and sports exchanges among young peopleLatestCompare with previous version
  • 1979A/RES/33/8Physical education and sports exchanges among young people

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 topics
Physical EducationSportsYouth Exchanges

What does this mandate say?

4 operative paragraphs

VI.

1
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General28 submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 33/8;
2
Takes note also of the replies of Member States29 to the request addressed by the Secretary-General in accordance with resolution 33/8;
3
Invites Member States to develop sports activities and physical education within the context of continuing education and, in particular, to give priority to programmes developed in the framework of a "sports for all" policy so as to reach all sectors of the population, especially young people who are not in school and the rural population;
4
Recommends that, in preparing programmes, special attention should be given to the promotion of indigenous forms of sport and physical training as well as to the adaptation of other forms of sport, especially through the use of local materials, and to the reduction of their cost and infrastructure requirements, so as to enable the largest possible number of persons to participate in these sports.

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