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Efforts and Measures for Securing the Implementation and the Enjoyment by Youth of Human Rights, Particularly the Right to Education and to Work

A/RES/40/15No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 89International Youth Year : Participation, Development, Peace, published in 1985.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 1981–1987
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/41/98
  • 1987A/RES/41/98Efforts and measures for securing the implementation and the enjoyment by youth of human rights, particularly the right to education and to workLatestCompare with previous version
  • 1985A/RES/40/15Efforts and measures for securing the implementation and the enjoyment by youth of human rights, particularly the right to education and to workCompare with previous version
  • 1984A/RES/39/23Efforts and measures for securing the implementation and the enjoyment by youth of human rights, particularly the right to education and to workCompare with previous version
  • 1984A/RES/38/23Efforts and measures for securing the implementation and the enjoyment by youth of human rights, particularly the right to education and to workCompare with previous version
  • 1981A/RES/36/29Efforts and measures for securing the implementation and the enjoyment by youth of human rights, particularly the right to education and to work

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

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 topics
Human Rights AdvancementInternational YearsRight to EducationRight to WorkVocational TrainingYouth

What does this mandate say?

3 operative paragraphs
1
Calls upon all States, all governmental and non-governmental organizations and the interested bodies of the United Nations and the specialized agencies to pay contin° uous attention, in further planning and suitable follow-up in the field of youth, to the implementation of General Assembly resolutions 36/29, 37/49, 38/23 and 39/23 relating to efforts and measures aimed at the promotion of human rights and their enjoyment by youth, particularly the right to education and vocational training and to work, with a view to resolving the problem of unemployment among youth;
2
Requests the Commission for Social Development, in examining specific youth issues, to pay adequate attention to the enjoyment by youth of human rights, particularly the right to education and to work;
3
Invites national organs of co-ordination or organs implementing policies and programmes in the field of youth to give appropriate priority in the activities to be undertaken after the International Youth Year: Participation, Development, Peace to the implementation and the
enjoyment by youth of human rights, particularly the right to education and to work.
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