A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/50/81 13 March 1996 Fiftieth session Agenda item 105 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [without reference to a Main Committee (A/50/728)] 50/81. World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond The General Assembly, Recognizing that young people in all countries are both a major human resource for development and key agents for social change, economic development and technological innovation, Bearing in mind that the ways in which the challenges and potentials of young people are addressed by policy will influence current social and economic conditions and the well-being and livelihood of future generations, Acknowledging that young women and men in all parts of the world aspire to full participation in the life of society, Recognizing that the decade since the observance of International Youth Year: Participation, Development and Peace has been a period of fundamental political, economic and socio-cultural change in the world, Acknowledging the contribution that non-governmental youth organizations could make in improving dialogue and consultations with the United Nations system on the situation of youth, Recalling its resolution 45/103 of 14 December 1990, in which it requested the Secretary-General to prepare a draft world youth programme of action towards the year 2000 and beyond, Recalling also its resolution 49/152 of 23 December 1994 on the International Youth Year, in which it requested the Commission for Social Development at its thirty-fourth session to consider further the draft world programme of action for youth towards the year 2000 and beyond, 96-77143 /...