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International Youth Day (12 August 2006)
 The
theme of the International Youth Day 2006 is "Tackling Poverty
Together". A major focus of Youth Day is practical action to further
encourage the empowerment and participation of youth in the processes
and decisions that affect their lives.
The UN General Assembly on 17 December 1999 in its resolution
54/120, endorsed the recommendation made by the World Conference of
Ministers Responsible for Youth (Lisbon, 8-12 August 1998) that 12 August
be declared International Youth Day. The Assembly recommended that public
information activities be organised to support the Day as a way to promote
better awareness of the World
Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond, adopted
by the General Assembly in 1995.
Source: UN Information Service
News
Kazakhstan: Youth movements still being harassed(11.08.06)
International Youth Day -- 12 August 2006(28.07.06)
Azerbaijan: Opposition youth activists on trial(31.03.06)
European youth Ministers meet to strengthen youth policies in the field of violence prevention(19.09.05)
International Youth Day - 12 August 2005(12.08.05)
UNICEF: New Sudan constitution should conform with international standards for children(14.07.05)
Efforts to end child labour must focus on education(13.06.05)
USA: Supreme Court outlaws death penalty for juveniles(1.03.05)
International Youth Day - 12 August 2004(12.08.04)
Council of Europe joins legal battle to stop US death penalty for minors(20.07.04)
Council of Europe seeks schoolchildren's ideas for anti-violence charter(12.07.04)
UN Security Council should press Nigeria to hand over Charles Taylor, Human Rights Watch says(22.06.04)
China: Young Internet user Liu Di released on bail(1.12.03)
United Kingdom: Growing number of youngsters trafficked against their will as cheap labour(31.07.03)
Annan urges world community to save young refugees from "life without hope"(20.06.03)
Selected learning materials
Study
Guide on the Rights of Children & Youth
Our
Homes, Our Lives, Ourselves: A Fun Book to Help Young People Get the
Issues Right Concerning Women in Human Settlements Development
International treaties on the rights of children and youth:
- Text
of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
- Simplified version
of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- ILO
Convention (No. 138) concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment
(1973)
- United
Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty
(1990)
Useful links
Organisations
that promote and protect the rights of youth
UNICEF:
Voices of Youth
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