In 2014, the UN General Assembly designated 15 July as World Youth Skills Day. World Youth Skills Day serves as an opportunity to highlight the importance of youth skills development. World Youth Skills Day underscores the need to support programming and initiatives that equip young people with tools and resources to enhance their ability to
by Dr. Bill Hunter To succeed in today’s global workforce, youth must have a wide variety of competencies, some of which are dependent on their career path. In addition to functional job skills, which vary from position to position, there are, however, common competencies that all young people need to develop regardless of their chosen
I welcome this first-ever commemoration of World Youth Skills Day. On July 15th each year, the international community will underscore the value of helping young people to upgrade their own abilities to contribute to our common future. While overall more young people have greater educational opportunities than in the past, there are still some 75
At a critical moment in what the United Nations has dubbed “a year for global action,” the Third International Conference on Financing for Development kicked off today in the Ethiopian capital with calls to ensure the necessary resources to improve people's lives while protecting the planet. “You have recognized that in a world in which both
Thank you to youth around the world for making the #YouthNow campaign a success! Since 2 February 2015, the #YouthNow campaign has: received 2 billion digital impressions, 19,000+ uses of the hashtag, 50+ offline events, many great conversations that lead to partnerships for change. Keep the conversation going on youth and global development using the hashtag
A new electronic platform allowing people from all over the world to contribute to the debates around the New Urban Agenda has been launched as part of the activities leading up to the Habitat III conference in October 2016. The Urban Dialogues is hosting a series of e-discussions until 31 July with the aim of integrating
World Refugee Day is observed every year on 20 June, to draw attention to the plight of the millions of people around the world forced to leave their home countries due to war, conflict and persecution. “Excuse us for being here. Excuse us for stealing your time. Excuse us.” Chanting in unison, the actors take
Today, the Business-Club IMAGURU in Minsk hosted an official ceremony to appoint 13 members of the new UN Youth Advisory Panel (UN YAP) in Belarus. The event was attended by UN resident coordinators, United Nations Development Programme Resident Coordinator, Sanaka Samarasinha, the representative of UNICEF in Belarus, Rashed Mustafa, Deputy Representative of the UN Development Programme in
On Wednesday 15 July 2015, join the Permanent Missions of Portugal and Sri Lanka, UNESCO, ILO, and the Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth, for a special event on: Youth Skills in the Post 2015 Development Agenda. This special event will be hosted in Conference Room 5 of the United Nations Headquarters in New
By Ala Oueslati Religion is a source of knowledge, inspiration, hope and serenity that people hold to give them purpose, value and peace. That is not what I was taught when I was younger. That is not what is being taught where I come from. What I was taught though, like most young people in the
