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Youth and COVID 19
On 22 April 2020, 50 members of the United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Youth Development (UN IANYD) released a joint statement calling for:
- partnering, safely and effectively, with young people during and after the COVID-19 crisis
- recognizing young people’s own actions and their potential to advance the fight against the pandemic
- understanding the specific impacts the pandemic has and will have on young people
The statement notably reminds us that young people are already leveraging their strengths to develop and implement solutions to the COVID-19 and related challenges including climate change and biodiversity loss.
Read the joint statement
here
Youth, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development Goals
At the occasion of the High Level Event of the President of the General Assembly in September 2014, Debora, 23 years old, from Sao Paulo, Brazil, delivered a statement on the need to take planet boundaries into account in defining the Sustainable Development Goals :
"Young People’s rights are not just about education and employment. And neither are the
planet’s resources infinite... >>