The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has launched the Youth 2030 UN Youth Strategy at a high-level meeting at the UN. Youth 2030 aims to scale up global, regional and national actions to meet young people’s needs, realize their rights and tap their possibilities as agents of change.
The Secretary-General tasked his Envoy on Youth, Jayathma Wickramanayake, along with UN and youth and youth-led agencies, to lead the implementation of the UN Youth Strategy. The strategy’s thematic priority areas reflect the three pillars of the UN system – sustainable development, peace and security, and human rights.
“All of our hopes for a better world rest on young people,” Mr. Guterres said. “Sustainable development, human rights, and peace and security can only be achieved if we empower these young people as leaders and enable them to unleash their full potential.”
“We commit to meaningfully engaging youth through UN-Habitat’s programmes on sustainable urbanization and in particularly we will be looking at the needs of youth living in informal settlements and in conflict cities,” UN-Habitat Executive Director, Maimunah Mohd Sharif told the meeting.
Young people today want the sustainable, peaceful world envisioned in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Realizing the aspirations of young people depends on realizing their rights, to empowerment and development, participation and choice. They offer 1.8 billion reasons for the United Nations to stand by their side.
Read and download the UN Youth Strategy report.
Original source: UN-Habitat
Published on 8 October 2018
