Concerted Action at the National and International Levels to Meet the Needs and Aspirations of Youth and to Promote Their Participation in National and International Development

A/RES/3140(XXVIII)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1974.

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5 subjects

Development Education Popular Participation Right to Work Youth

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Appeals to Member States to intensify their efforts to implement the principles contained in international instruments adopted in various fields regarding youth by the United Nations and the specialized agencies and to implement the proposals for action contained in the Secretary-General's report, particularly:

To gear their educational policies and programmes to the task of ensuring educational opportunities and education more relevant to the preparation of youth for full participation in all aspects of life and development;

To formulate health policies, implement health programmes and, where appropriate and in accordance v. ith national priorities, make ,available information and services relating to communicable diseases, narcotic drugs and population programmes, in order to ensure that young people are able to take advantage of the opportunities open to them;

To adopt all possible means to increase work opportunities in order to reduce or eliminate unemployment among young people;

To increase opportunities for youth to participate in all aspects of national and international life, especially in the implementation of the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade;

Calls upon the competent bodies of the United Nations to provide more educational and training facilities at all levels to the youth of southern Africa and of the Non-Self-Governing Territories;

Calls upon international, regional and non-governmental organizations, in co-operation with youth and youth organizations, to undertake a concerted review and appraisal of their policies and programmes for youth, both in rural and urban areas, in the light of the report of the Secretary-General, with particular relevance to education, training, ,employment and participation in decision-making, in order to enable them to meet more satisfactorily the needs of youth and to enable it to play a more effective role in promoting economic and social development and peace in the world;

Recommends that Unit-ed Nations reports on youth should give more attention to the role of youth in the world of today and its role in the actions of peoples aimed at realizing fully the principles of the Charter of the United Nations for peace and international co-operation and for the liquidation of colonialism,

alien domination, racial discrimination and apartheid, and at promoting progress and justice throughout the world;

Requests the competent and concerned organizations of the United Nations system to give continued att~ntion to regional and international meetings on the maJor problems of concern to the young generation and to other appropriate actions in which youth and national and international youth organizations may effectively participate;

Requests the Economic and Social Council to invite the Commission for Social Development to study the possibility of redefining an international policy con-

43 ST/TAO/HR.47, para. 137. cerning the involvement of youth at the national and international levels, inoluding the advisability of an international document on youth, taking into consideration, inter alia, relevant provisions contained in existing international instruments and the views expressed by Governments of Member States and by interested non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Council, and to submit recommendations to the Counoil at its fifty-eighth session, to be transmitted to the General Assembly at its thirtieth session;

. 8. Requests the Secretary-General, in co-operation with Governments, the specialized agencies, interested non-governmenta~ organizations in consultative status wit~ th_e Economic and Social Council and youth orgaruzat1ons, to assemble data on the problems confronting youth and on the manner in which these problem~ are being treated by the organs and executive bodies of the United Nations system, to prepare a report designed to facilitate planning, especially for developing countries, and to submit it to the Economic and Social _C-=mncil at its sixty-second session, through the Comm1ss1on for Social Development, and to the General Assembly at its thirty-second session.

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