International Youth Day

The active engagement of youth is central for stable societies and to avert the worst threats to sustainable development, including the impacts of climate change.
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Youth need ‘seat at the table’ to lead struggle for better future: Guterres

12 August 2021
Culture and Education

Young people are on the “frontlines of the struggle to build a better future”, the UN chief said on Thursday, International Youth Day.

Students in Primary Seven at Zanaki Primary School in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, during an English language class.
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‘We are facing a learning crisis’, UN chief warns on International Youth Day

11 August 2019
Culture and Education

Schools are “not equipping young people with the skills they need to navigate the technological revolution”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned, in a message released to mark the UN’s International Youth Day.