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expertise, thus enabling them to overcome the barriers of distance and
socio-economic disadvantage, while also promoting involvement of young people in
creating, repairing, managing and maintaining information and communications
technology and providing them access to information on a range of issues that
directly affect them, including health, education and employment;
(h) To ensure young women’s equal access to education and vocational
training at all levels in order to provide them with an equal opportunity to
participate in the global economy;
(i) To recognize the rights of young persons with disabilities to education
without discrimination and on the basis of equal opportunity, including by ensuring
an inclusive education system at all levels and lifelong learning, and to work, on an
equal basis with others;
(j) To consider expanding avenues for regular labour migration, taking into
account labour market needs and demographic trends, recognizing the important
nexus between migration and development and bearing in mind that young people
account for a large number of those migrating;
(k) To take all necessary measures to ensure the rights of young people to the
enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and their access to sustainable
health systems and social services, without discrimination, paying special attention
to and raising awareness of nutrition, including eating disorders and obesity, and the
effects of communicable diseases, and to sexual and reproductive health, including
measures to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS;
(l) To ensure that national policies and programmes on youth development
address the particular needs of young people who are in distressed circumstances or
otherwise socially excluded or marginalized, including indigenous, migrant, refugee
and displaced youth, young persons living in situations of armed conflict, terrorism,
hostage-taking, aggression, foreign occupation, civil war or post-conflict settings,
young people subjected to racism or xenophobia, street children, poor youth in
urban or rural areas and youth affected by natural or man-made disasters;
Calls upon the international community to continue to support the efforts
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of Governments, together with civil society, including youth-led organizations, the
private sector and other parts of society, to anticipate and offset the negative social
and economic consequences of globalization and to maximize its benefits for young
people;
10. Urges Member States to combat all forms of discrimination against
young people, including that based on race, colour, sex, language, religion, political
or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status, and to
promote equal opportunities for all;
11. Underlines the strategic importance of initiatives such as the
Opportunities Fund for Urban Youth-led Development initiative of the United
Nations Human Settlements Programme, 9 which will provide resources to mobilize
young people to strengthen youth-related policy formulation and to pilot and
demonstrate new and innovative approaches to employment, good governance,
water and sanitation, adequate shelter and secure tenure, and invites Member States
to contribute to the Fund;
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-second Session, Supplement No. 8 (A/62/8),
annex I.B, resolution 21/6.
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