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Youth for climate action - UNICEF
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.
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Youth - UNICEF
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...
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See how youth worldwide are now influencing climate action
The Youth Climate Strike is an environmentalist protest wave ostensibly led by school-age children inspired by the activism of high-school-age Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Isra Hirsi, the co-founder of the U.S. Youth Climate Strike, has been organizing youth-led climate strikes and advocating for environmental justice.
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UNICEF x Youth
UNICEF x Youth. Working for young people means working with them. Young people have long stood at the forefront of calls for peace, justice and equity. They have an internationally recognized right to be heard on matters that affect them. That’s why UNICEF engages more young people on global issues than any child rights organization on the ...
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The role of youth in shaping climate action - UNICEF
Youth-led climate actions and advocacy campaigns have already driven significant changes in national climate commitments. In Ecuador, 40 young people aged 13-28 years (including Indigenous Peoples, children on the move, and young people with disabilities) collaborated with international and national experts to suggest commitments for inclusion in Ecuador’s new NDC.
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Three effective ways to tackle worldwide youth employment
65 million youth unemployed: 3 ways we can tackle the unemployment crisis and build a resilient workforce. Oct 8, 2024. Entrepreneur Billy Kercy Mperabahizi founded Green Youth Force, an association of young volunteers dedicated to environmental protection in Burundi. Image: Billy Kercy Mperabahizi/Green Youth Force.
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3 biggest issues affecting youth today - The World Economic Forum
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.
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Young people hold the key to creating a better future
Read the report"Davos Labs: Youth Recovery Plan" here. Young people today are coming to age in a world beset by crises. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic devastated lives and livelihoods around the world, the socio-economic systems of the past had put the liveability of the planet at risk and eroded the pathway to healthy, happy, fulfilled lives for too many.
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Who are the youth of today? Generation unlimited - UNICEF
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 ...
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Empowering youth to build skills and opportunities through social ...
UPSHIFT is an innovative programme response that blends leading approaches to youth and adolescent development, social innovation, and entrepreneurship to. empower marginalised youth and adolescents to become social innovators and social entrepreneurs. The programme combines social innovation workshops, mentorship, incubation and seed funding ...
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