DPI strives to maintain open channels of communication with youth and carries out public information activities promoting United Nations efforts to improve the situation of youth. The Department is making a concerted effort to promote collaboration with youth and to involve more youth non-governmental organizations in its NGO activities. DPI and its network of Information Centres and Services reproduce and widely disseminate international instruments and strategies concerning youth and produce information mater-ials on issues of particular concern to young people, such as poverty eradication, drug abuse, the advancement of women and sustainable development. Within the domain of educational outreach, DPI produces information materials aimed at young people, including student leaflets and a student map of the United Nations. UN Radio and Central News Service are engaged in the pilot testing of a new project -- United Nations Radio on Internet -- as an additional outreach medium. Other DPI activities targeted at youth include the United Nations Headquarters Internship Programme and the United Nations CyberSchoolBus (www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus) an online educational service.

Contact:

Ms. Elisabeth Ruzicka-Dempsey
Focal Point on Youth
Development and Human Rights
Section
Department of Public Information
Room S-1040C
United Nations
New York, NY 10017, U.S.A.

Tel.: (212) 963-1742Fax: (212) 963-1186

E-mail: ruzicka-dempsey@un.org