Declaration on the Promotion Among Youth of the Ideals of Peace, Mutual Respect and Understanding Between Peoples

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1965.

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	Section 1	Overall policymaking, direction and coordination	11

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	Section 1	Overall policymaking, direction and coordination	11	—

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Declarations (Text)Peace Principles Youth

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Proclaims this Declaration on the Promotion among Youth of the Ideals of Peace, Mutual Respect and Understanding between Peoples and calls upon Governments, non-governmental organizations and youth movements to recognize the principles set forth therein and to ensure their observance by means of appropriate measures:

Principle I Young people shall be brought up in the spirit of peace, jm;tice, freedom, mutual respect and understanding in order to promote equal rights for all human heings and all nations, economic and social progress. disarmament and the maintenance of international peace and security.

Principle II All means of education. including as of major importance the guid,mce given by parents or family. instruction and information intended for the young should foster among them the ideals of peace, humanity, liberty and international solidarity and all other ideals which help to bring peoples closer together. and acquaint them with the role entrusted to the United Nations as a means of preserving and maintaining peace and promoting international understanding and co-operation.

Principle I II Young people shall be brought up in the knowledge of the dignity and equality of all men, without distinction as to race, colour, ethnic origins or beliefs, and in respect for fundamental human rights and for the right of peoples to self-determination.

Principle IV Exchanges. travel, tourism, meetings, the study of foreign languages. the twinning of towns and universities without discrimination and similar activities should be encouraged and facilitated among young people of all countries in order to bring them together in educational, cultural and sporting activities in the spirit of this Declaration.

Principle V National and international associations of young people should be encouraged to promote the purposes of the United Nations, particularly international peace and security, friendly relations among nations based on respect for the equal sovereignty of States, the final abolition of colonialism and of racial discrimination and other violations of human rights.

Youth organizations in accordance with this Declaration should take all appropriate measures within their respective fields of activity in order to make their contribution without any discrimination to the work of educating the young generation in accordance with these ideals.

Such organizations. in conformity with the principle of freedom of association. should promote the free exchange of ideas in the spirit of the principles of this

Declaration and of the purposes of the United Nations set forth in the Charter.

All youth organizations should conform to the principles set forth in this Declaration.

Principle V 1 A major aim in educating the young shall be to develop all their faculties and to train them to acquire higher moral qualities, to be deeply attached to the noble ideals of peace, liberty, the dignity and equality of all men, and imbued with respect and love for humanity and its creative achievements. To this end the family has an important role to play. . Y ?~mg_ people must become conscious of their respons1b1ht1es m the world they will be called upon to manage and should be inspired with confidence in a future of happiness for mankind.

7 December 1965.

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