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UN celebrates 10 years of progress in youth, peace and security agenda

·December 24, 2025·3 min read

In 2021, after the Taliban takeover, Nila Ibrahimi and her family fled Afghanistan. Having been a vocal rights advocate since the age of thirteen, when she led a viral campaign that successfully overturned a government ban preventing Afghan girls over the age of 12 from singing in public, she knew...

UN Alliance of Civilizations urges youth to reaffirm peace as a global priority

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·December 15, 2025·3 min read

Speaking to UN News ahead of the 11th Global Forum of the Alliance, which opens in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Sunday, Miguel Ángel Moratinos urged youth everywhere to reclaim peace as a global priority. The future depends on a new generation willing to choose dialogue over division, and humanity over...

Indigenous youth meet trailblazers ahead of Nelson Mandela Day

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·July 18, 2025·4 min read

Accompanied by their parents and mentors from the midwestern state of Wisconsin, the group wore handmade ribbon skirts and vests featuring seven coloured bands, each symbolizing a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of personal significance, such as good health and gender equality. Also visiting the UN in New York for the...

Celebrating the potential and promise of the largest youth generation ever

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·July 11, 2025·1 min read

Secretary-General António Guterres said empowering young people in a fair and hopeful world reaffirms the UN promise that every person has the right to make informed choices about their lives and futures. While many young people face economic uncertainty, gender inequality, health challenges, the climate crisis and a spike in conflicts...

Flavoured nicotine products driving youth addiction, WHO warns

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·May 30, 2025·1 min read

This is especially true among youth users: it’s one of the main reasons young people experiment with tobacco or nicotine products in the first place, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO). Flavoured nicotine and tobacco products are inherently addictive and toxic – often more so than regular...

‘We are the present’: Tajik climate activist urges leaders to include youth voices in dialogue

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·May 30, 2025·4 min read

At the end of April, Fariza Dzhobirova attended a Model United Nations Conference on Glaciers’ Preservation in Tajikistan’s capital, Dushanbe, where she represented Switzerland. For Ms. Dzhobirova, it was a rehearsal of sorts for the actual High-level Conference on Glaciers’ Preservation which began on Thursday in Dushanbe. There, she will serve...

Pandemic accord can be a ‘gamechanger’ for marginalised communities, says youth advocate

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·May 17, 2025·4 min read

Mr. Hassan and his fellow Youth Councillors advise and actively engage with the WHO Director-General and the agency’s senior leadership, designing and expanding the agency’s programmes and strategies. In an interview with UN News ahead of the 2025 World Health Assembly – the UN’s highest forum for global health – Mr. Hassan,...

UN Youth Forum brings fresh perspectives on sustainable development

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·April 21, 2025·2 min read

Putting sustainable change and social inclusion at the forefront of its effort, the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum is the UN’s largest annual gathering of young people. “The urgency of shaping a more sustainable, inclusive and just future for all has never been clearer,” said the President of ECOSOC, Bob...

‘Without us, there is no future’: Youth take over UN Women’s Commission

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·March 16, 2025·4 min read

“Support us and include us in intergovernmental processes,” said Ema Meçaj, a medical student and member of Albania’s youth steering committee, who was among young men and women panellists from around the world at an interactive dialogue at the 69th session of world’s largest annual conference on women (CSW69), which...

‘Robbed’ of their childhood: UNICEF warns of crisis facing Haiti’s youth

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·February 1, 2025·1 min read

In a briefing on Friday, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric reported that more than 1,600 men, women and children have fled. Two-thirds are seeking refuge with host families and over 500 sheltering in three newly established displacement sites, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Children at risk The situation...

COP29: ‘You have every right to be angry’ Guterres tells youth advocates frustrated over lack of climate action

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·November 15, 2024·3 min read

“You have every right to be angry. I am angry too,” the UN chief posted on social media on Thursday following his meeting with youth representatives and young environmental activists. “I am angry because we are on the verge of the climate abyss, and I don’t see enough urgency or...

Youth lead the way ahead of UN Summit of the Future

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·September 21, 2024·4 min read

Scores of youth from across the world packed into the UN General Assembly Hall for the start of two “action days” ahead of the Summit, which begins on Sunday. Felipe Paullier, the first-ever UN Assistant Secretary-General for Youth Affairs, described the Summit of the Future as a once-in-a-generation chance to...