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UNITED NATIONS TARGETING WORLD YOUTH....see a
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‘Be the change’ we desperately need, UN deputy
chief urges global youth
UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed
addressing the Africa Youth Development Summit, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
30 November 2018
SDGs
Young people are the leaders and torchbearers the
world “desperately needs” but they also face serious challenges when it comes
to realizing their potential, the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General has
said.
Addressing the African Youth Development Summit,
in South Africa’s Johannesburg, Amina J. Mohammed said that young people “are
seeing their pathways to participation blocked and their rights denied.”
“[The youth] know that for the sake of their
future, we need to transform our economies and embrace new, sustainable
patterns of production and consumption,” she added, noting that perhaps most
damaging of all, “young people are witnessing the manmade destruction of our
natural environment.”
Ms. Mohammed, however, added that with the global
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the African Union’s Agenda 2063,
road maps exist for socio-economic transformations that can unite people and
drive change at all levels.
And Young people are key to ensuring that
happens.
“The Africa We Want will not be possible without
the full participation and of Africa’s young people, particularly those who
face barriers – including young women and girls,” said the UN deputy chief.
I am counting on you to be the change agents and
torchbearers that we so desperately need – Ms. Mohammed, to young people
Youth2030, the UN Youth Strategy
In her remarks, the Deputy Secretary-General
highlighted the UN’s work with and for the world’s youth, including the
recently launched Youth2030, the Organization’s Youth Strategy, as well as the
role of Jayathma Wickramanayake, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for
Youth.
On the specifics of Youth2030, Ms. Mohammed spoke
of programmes focusing on climate action; education and health; as well as
campaigns promoting better sexual and reproductive health, and menstrual
health; noting that the latter had “been a taboo subject for far too long.”
Lack of support for menstrual health can keep
girls out of school and the workplace and out of leadership roles, with
devastating consequences that can last lifetimes and across generations as well
as leading to discrimination and marginalization of women and girls, said the
Deputy Secretary-General.
“Educating both girls and boys about menstruation
as a normal biological process is the first step towards addressing these
issues,” she highlighted.
Be the change
Concluding her remarks, Ms. Mohammed, had a message
for youth everywhere.
She said that she is “counting” on them to be the
change agents and torchbearers “that we so desperately need.”
“The dignity that we want for our young women and
men begins with each and every one of us. It will be a journey, the outcome of
which will depend on how you travel that road to 2030,” she said.
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