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Youth
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The General Assembly has adopted a number of resolutions on youth, recognizing that young people are both a major resource for development and key agents for social change, economic development and technological innovation.
In 1985, the United Nations proclaimed International Youth Year: Participation, Development, Peace in order to focus attention on concern for and relating to youth.
The United Nations recognizes the profound importance of the direct participation of youth in shaping the future of mankind. It supports activities to strengthen policy-making and programme planning capacities for youth and to encourage research, training, data collection, and evaluation of technical information on youth issues.
The World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond was adopted in 1995 to draw attention to the important role young people play in society. It urges Government ministers and ministers responsible for youth and leaders of non-governmental youth organizations to meet on a regular basis at global youth conferences, the so called World Youth Forum.
Documentation
The most essential documents are posted at the UN official web site, section Youth at the United Nations. Library of UN Documents Related to Youth. It includes Secretary-General's reports on youth issues and relevant studies and resolutions.
The World Youth Report is posted at the UN official web site, section Youth at the United Nations.
Yearbook of the United Nations provides an overview of the United Nations work in the field of youth with a detailed subject index. A complete collection of yearbooks is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva. Since October 2008 the complete full text collection of The United Nations Yearbooks is available online at http://unyearbook.un.org/.
Databases and Indexes
The UN Library online catalogue UNBISnet contains reports, documents and articles related to UN activities with links to
full texts for recent years. Subject search can be performed using relevant terms from the UNBIS THESAURUS.
Subject search can be performed through the UN official web site, section Economic and Social Development, Index to Programmes.