Via World Bank In a country with high youth unemployment—such as Egypt—could it be that young people can develop new solutions? Can young, creative minds come up with new ideas that have never been considered or tested? Are young people themselves the answer to solving the unemployment challenge? Egyptian youth encounter a broad range of
Via UNFPA KACHIN STATE, Myanmar – Since the armed conflict in northern Myanmar’s Kachin State intensified in December, nearly 7,000 people have fled the area, often amid shelling and airstrikes. Among the people on the run are 260 pregnant women. Many of them are sleeping on the roadside, unable to find shelter. Their needs
A general call for UNV Programme Officers (UNV POs) is ongoing between February 16th and March 19th. Details on the functions of these positions, requirements and application process are below. UNV Programme Officers (UNV POs) are the country level representatives of the organization in ensuring and delivering key results of the UNV Strategic Framework. UNV
Via UNESCO Training young leaders in conflict resolution and peace building, business skills and project management, and future-oriented approaches of the Sustainable Development Goals has become essential. From 6 to 10 February 2017, young leaders from South Sudan and Northern Uganda were invited by the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative (WPDI) to be trained on
Via UN Volunteers 13 February 2017, Bonn, Germany - Thirty nationals from the Czech Republic, France and Switzerland are among the latest UN Youth Volunteers to arrive in Bonn to start assignment preparation training before being deployed to serve United Nations programmes in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. These 30 young people, whose assignments
Via UN Volunteers 08 February 2017, Bogotá, Colombia - At the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Colombia, youth leader Julián Rodríguez together with Leymah Gbowee, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, led a workshop entitled “Youth for the Sustainable Development Goals” for 100 young Colombians and other youth from the region. The workshop
Delivering a lecture at Cairo University, Mr. Guterres underlined the importance of young people in addressing the challenges confronting the contemporary world, including those to peace, impacts of climate change and growing inequalities. “The best hope [to address these] challenges is with the new generations, we need to make sure that we are able to
Via UN Radio Youth employment schemes must be at the heart of national and global economic plans. That's the hope expressed by UN Secretary-General António Guterres in a wide-ranging address to students at Cairo University in Egypt on Wednesday. Dianne Penn reports. The Secretary-General outlined some of the challenges facing the world, such as increasingly
15 February 2017 ADDRESS AT CAIRO UNIVERSITY: “FACING GLOBAL CHALLENGES, FINDING HOPE IN YOUTH” Honourable President of the Cairo University, Honourable Ministers, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Let me say first of all, how grateful I am for this invitation to be here in the same university as one of my predecessor, that I so much
The United Nations believes that empowering women and girls not only contributes to the world’s economic development, but also pushes forward the goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
