{"id":43922,"date":"2018-01-26T14:56:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T14:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=43922"},"modified":"2018-04-22T11:46:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T15:46:34","slug":"youth-envoy-call-efforts-empower-engage-young-people-ahead-un-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2018\/01\/youth-envoy-call-efforts-empower-engage-young-people-ahead-un-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Envoy to call for more efforts to empower and engage young people ahead of UN Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United Nations Secretary-General\u2019s Envoy on Youth, Jayathma Wickramanayake, will brief the media on\u00a026 January 2018<\/span>, ahead of the largest official annual gathering on youth issues at the organization.<\/p>\n

Wickramanayake, the youngest senior official at the UN, was appointed by Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres in June 2017. As the Organization\u2019s second Envoy on Youth, she is responsible for advocating for young people around the world, including promoting global efforts to empower young people as rights-holders, agents of change and torchbearers of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.<\/p>\n

More than 500 youth advocates from around the world will meet with government ministers and officials at the Economic and Social Council Youth Forum form\u00a030 to 31 January 2018<\/span>. The Forum presents a key opportunity to address challenges that today\u2019s generation of young people, the largest the world has ever known, is facing, and advance the role of youth in implementing the global development agenda.<\/p>\n

The Press Conference\u00a0will be streamed live on UN WebTV:\u00a0http:\/\/webtv.un.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/u>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
What:<\/strong><\/td>\nPress Conference by the UN Secretary-General\u2019s Envoy on Youth, Jayathma Wickramanayake<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Where:<\/strong><\/td>\nUnited Nations Headquarters, New York<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
When:<\/strong><\/td>\nFriday, 26 January 2018, 12:15 p.m. EST<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Media contacts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

UN Department of Public Information
\nDevi Palanivelu, T:\u00a0+1 (212) 963-1104<\/a>\u00a0| E:\u00a0palanivelu@un.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Office of the Secretary-General\u2019s Envoy on Youth
\nIryna Gudyma, T:\u00a0+1 (732) 330-7180<\/a>\u00a0| E:\u00a0iryna.gudyma@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United Nations Secretary-General\u2019s Envoy on Youth, Jayathma Wickramanayake, will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":243,"featured_media":43926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-press-material"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}