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Opportunities for Youth

A/RES/42/53No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 90Policies and programmes involving youth, published in 1988.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1985–1988
  • 1988A/RES/42/53Opportunities for youthLatestCompare with previous version
  • 1985A/RES/40/16Opportunities for youth

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

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 topics
Budget ContributionsEducationEqual OpportunityGirlsLeast Developed CountriesSocial IntegrationVocational TrainingYouth

What does this mandate say?

6 operative paragraphs
1
Calls upon Member States to pay increased attention to the promotion of youth employment through pragmatic measures in all sectors of the economy in order to enable more young people to obtain appropriate education and vocational training, thereby facilitating their integration into social and professional life;
2
Urges Member States and governmental and nongovernmental organizations to increase, wherever possible, technical co-operation activities with a view to narrowing the gap between the demand for and supply of educational and training opportunities at all levels in developing countries, particularly in the least developed ones, and thus to contribute to the achievement of greater equality of employment opportunities for young people in those countries;
3
Calls upon Member States to promote greater awareness of the need to preserve and increase work opportunities for young people, whenever possible, with particular emphasis on equal opportunities for girls and young women;
4
Further calls upon Member States to pay increased attention to conditions that will create work opportunities for young people, inter alia, by facilitating the realization of income-generating projects for young people;
5
Recommends that the Secretary-General explore the possibilities for the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat to support, within the framework of its activities, the work of the Institute of HOPE '87, including, if appropriate, the question of affiliating, on the basis of the relevant regulations of the United Nations, the Institute of HOPE '87 to the Centre, on the understanding that the financial resources for the Institute would be raised exclusively from special voluntary contributions;
6
Requests the Secretary-General to include in his report on youth, to be submitted to the General Assembly at its forty-third session, an account of the work undertaken by the Institute of HOPE '87.

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