Opportunities for youth : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
1987
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SymbolA/RES/42/53
TitleOpportunities for youth : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
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Summary
Calls upon Member States to pay increased attention to the promotion of youth employment through pragmatic measures in all sectors of the economy in order to enable more young people to obtain appropriate education and vocational training, thereby facilitating their integration into social and professional life; calls upon Member States to promote greater awareness of the need to preserve and increase work opportunities for young people, whenever possible, with particular emphasis on equal opportunities for girls and young women; further calls upon Member States to pay increased attention to conditions that will create work opportunities for young people, inter alia, by facilitating the realization of income-generating projects for young people; recommends that the Secretary-General explore the possibilities for the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs at the UN Office at Vienna to suport, within the framework of its activities, the work of the Institute of HOPE '87, including, if appropriate, the question of affiliating, on the basis of the relevant regulations of the UN, the Institute of HOPE '87 to the Centre, on the understanding that the financial resources for the Institute would be raised exclusively from special voluntary contributions.
Action note1987-11-30
Vote summary
Adopted without vote, 85th meeting
Meeting record
A/42/PV.85
Agenda information
A/42/251 90 Policies and programmes involving youth. YOUTH
Date[New York] : UN, 26 Jan. 1988.
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2 p.
Notes
Adopted at the 85th plenary meeting, 30 Nov. 1987.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 42nd session, Volume 1, 15 September-21 December 1987. - A/42/49. - 1988. - p. 182. - (GAOR, 42nd sess., Suppl. no. 49).
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 42nd session, Volume 1, 15 September-21 December 1987. - A/42/49. - 1988. - p. 182. - (GAOR, 42nd sess., Suppl. no. 49).