International Youth Year

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1979.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1979–1995

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/49/152

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1995	A/RES/49/152	International Youth Year	469	10%Compare
1979	A/RES/33/7	International Youth Year	1,666	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 subjects

International Years Youth

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

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Invites Member States and regional commissions which have not yet done so on the basis of General Assembly resolution 32/135 to comment on the guidelines and to offer additional suggestions regarding the

further development of these guidelines;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-fourth session a report on comments and suggestions offered by Member States and regional commissions relating to the guidelines;

Invites the Commission for Social Development to make appropriate recommendations for the further development of the guidelines adopted by the General Assembly in resolution 32/135, taking into account the suggestions and comments of Member States and regional commissions and the debate on the subject during the thirty-third session and to report to the Assembly at its thirty-fourth session, through the Economic and Social Council;

Further requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-fourth session a report on the progress achieved in the implementation of the guidelines with specific, action-oriented recommendations aimed at the further development and practical implementation of the guidelines and at the promotion and support of co-operation between the United Nations and the specialized agencies on the one hand, and national and international youth organizations on the other;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-fourth session the item entitled "Policies and programmes relating to youth".

33 /7.

International Youth Year

Decides to proclaim an International Youth Year and to designate the most suitable period for its celebration, as well as the ways and means for its observance, at its thirty-fourth session;

Decides also that in its examination of the question it will take full account of the report of the Secretary-General, to be prepared on the basis of Economic and Social Council decision 1978/47 of 1 August 1978;

Takes note of the reports entitled "International Youth Y ear"3 and "Legislative history and programme activities of the United Nations in the field of youth"4 submitted by the Secretary-General;

Invites again all States to make known their views and to offer additional suggestions concerning the International Youth Year and to send their proposals and observations in this regard to the Secretary-General before 1 July 1979;

Requests the Secretary-General to prepare a comprehensive report which should present analytically the opinions expressed by States with respect to the various practical aspects of the celebration of the International Youth Year on the basis of the views and proposals which have been made and will be made,

including those submitted during the thirty-second and thirty-third sessions of the General Assembly;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-fourth session an item entitled "International Youth Year" and to grant it the highest priority, due consideration being given to the final designation of the most suitable period for the celebration of such a Year.

33/8. Physical education and sports exchanges among young people

Recommends that Member States should adopt the necessary measures to promote physical education and sports exchange programmes, particularly among young people and on the basis of equality of men and women, in order to improve the quality of life, inculcate fundamental human values and promote selfless competition, solidarity and full respect for the integrity and dignity of all human beings;

Calls upon all States to take appropriate action to bring about the total cessation of sporting contacts with any country practising apartheid and to refrain from official sponsorship, assistance or encouragement of such contacts;

Invites the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, regional organizations and other interested organizations and programmes within the United Nations system to intensify their efforts to promote meetings between young people through sports and physical education activities;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session a report on the activities undertaken by Member States, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, regional organizations and other interested organizations and programmes within the United Nations system in the field of physical education and sports, particularly among young people.

33/23. Adverse consequences for the enjoyment of human rights of political, military,

economic and other forms of assistance given to colonial and raf'ist regimes in southern Africa

VI.

3 A/33/257 and Add.l and Add.1/Corr.1.

4' A/33/193.

5 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Sixty-second Session, Supplement No. 6 (E/5927), chap. XXI, sect. A.

n See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1978, Supplement No. 4 (E/1978/34), chap. XXV, sect. A.

7 E/CN.4/Sub.2/383/Rev.l.

s See E/CN.4/1296, chap. xvn. sect. A.

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International Youth Year

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