Opportunities for Youth

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 89 International Youth Year : Participation, Development, Peace, published in 1985.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1985–1988

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/42/53

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1988	A/RES/42/53	Opportunities for youth	560	23%Compare
1985	A/RES/40/16	Opportunities for youth	649	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

11 subjects

Conferences Employment Equal Opportunity Higher Education Illiteracy Least Developed Countries New Technologies Right to Education Vocational Training Young Workers Youth

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Calls upon Member States to lend increased attention to programmes to combat illiteracy and to young people who, after having fmish.ed comp_ulsory or p~mary education do not enter institutions of higher education or vocationai training, or who, after be~nning such education or training, are unable to complete 1t;

Invites Member States to consider steps to enable mo;e young people to begin and complete higher education or vocational training;

Urges Member States to dedicate, whenever possible, more resources, through increased technical co-opera tion activities to narrowing. the gap between demand for and supply of ~ducational an~ trainin~ opport1;1nities at all levels in developing countnes, particularly m the least developed ones, and thus to contribute to th~ :1chievement of greater equality of employment opportumties for young people in those countries;

Calls upon Member States to promote a better aw~reness of the need to preserve, whenever possible, and to increase work opportunities for young people of both sexes, with particular emphasis on equal opportunities for girls and young women;

Recommends to Member States that they should promote initiatives whereby ·new demands, fields or types of occupation are explored, including the fields of protection of the environment, agro-industries and other natural resource-based industries, new technologies as wpll as "alternative employment opportunities";

Invites Member States to examine more closely t~e consequences that the introductio';l of~ew technologies_m developed and developing countnes ahke may have with regard to the number of work opportunities, especially for young people, and to find ways to offset any possible adverse consequences, ensuring that ~uch technologies are only introduced in a socially compatible manner;

Requests the Secretary-General to include in his report on the implementation of the long-term plan of action on youth, to be submitted to the General Assembly at its forty-second session, a detailed analysis of tile results of the symposium to be held at Vienna.

IOSee A/40/701. 8 Resolution 35/56, annex. 9 A/40/64-E/ 1985/5.

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