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Aug 12, 2021 · The year 2021 is the time to start thinking and acting long-term to make intergenerational parity the norm and to design a society, economy and international community that cares for all people. Young people are also the best placed to lead this transformation. In the past 10 years of working with the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers ...
UNICEF’s Youth Advocates come from every corner of the world, united in their pursuit of universal goals. From creating a more climate-resilient planet to fighting against gender-based violence to championing the rights of children with disabilities, these young people are speaking out and taking action for childr...
Sep 19, 2019 · We also work with youth to spread the message offline, through initiatives like UNICEF’s first-ever Climate Comic Contest. Sathviga ‘Sona’ Sridhar, a 21-year-old artist from Chennai, India, was the winner of the contest in 2017. Sridhar was inspired to take action on climate change after her community was hit by devastating floods in 2015.
The Malaysian Youth Mental Health Index 2023 Study is a collaboration between the Institute for Youth Research Malaysia (IYRES) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Malaysia. It provides a helpful snapshot for policymakers, healthcare practitioners, and relevant stakeholders to understand the mental health landscape of Malaysian ...
Nov 26, 2020 · People aged 14 to 29 years represent the largest generation in history. We reached out to several Cuban youngsters to know about their visions, their roles in society as individuals and part of the population. From their individuality’s point of view, these young people look at the society in which they have to live and how to make it their ...
Aug 20, 2021 · To mount the response required to usher in this new world, the Millennial Manifesto team - a component of the Davos Lab - held dialogues on what a matured form of youth activism could look like. Through a process that engaged diverse Global Shapers from every continent, some of the world's most impactful social entrepreneurs, and experienced ...
Jan 15, 2020 · In the United States, between 2010 and 2017, mortality rates for working-age people, between 25 to 64, increased from 328.5 deaths per 100,000 people to 348.2 deaths per 100,000. The main causes were drug and alcohol abuse and suicide. The youth unemployment rate as a percentage of youth labour force Image: OECD.
comes of youth when combined with vocational training, finance and/or mentoring/advice27 — i.e., programs that cater to multiple constraints faced by beneficiaries work better. Similarly, compre-hensive models targeting very poor youth and non-youth — e.g., graduation models — also do well to improve livelihoods. 28 Note that graduation
Nov 19, 2020 · PUTRAJAYA, 19 November 2020 – Nine in 10 youth in Malaysia have experienced environment and climate-related effects in the last three years. 92 per cent of young people think that climate change is a crisis. These are some of the results of the National Youth Climate Change Survey (NYCC) released in the report Change for Climate by UNDP and ...
Oct 8, 2024 · Addressing youth unemployment requires a multi-pronged creative approach that fosters entrepreneurship, incentivizes upskilling and rewards positive behaviours. I was recently in South Africa on a partner mission with UNICEF. I met a young man, Keagan, who told me he had two choices in life – “pick up a book or pick up a gun”.
