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increase the access of youth to affordable, safe and effective health care by paying
special attention to, and raising awareness regarding, nutrition, including eating
disorders and obesity, the effects of non-communicable and communicable diseases
and sexual and reproductive health, as well as measures to prevent sexually
transmitted diseases, including HIV and AIDS;
15. Urges Member States to increase efforts, including to address the
ongoing social impact of the crises, to improve the quality of education and promote
universal access to education, particularly for young women, out-of-school youth,
youth with disabilities, indigenous youth, youth in rural areas, young migrants and
youth living with HIV and affected by AIDS, without discrimination on any basis, to
ensure that they can acquire the knowledge, capacities, skills and ethical values
needed, including by appropriate access to scholarships and other mobility
programmes, non-formal education, and technical and vocational education and
training, in order to further develop their contributions to societies as relevant actors
to promote development;
16. Also urges Member States to take concerted actions in conformity with
international law to remove the obstacles to the full realization of the rights of
young people living under foreign occupation to promote the achievement of the
Millennium Development Goals;
17. Further urges Member States to take effective measures in conformity
with international law to protect young people affected or exploited by terrorism and
incitement;
18. Urges Member States to promote equal opportunities for all, 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 foster social integration for social groups such
as young persons with disabilities, young migrants and indigenous youth on an
equal basis with others;
19. Encourages Member States to consider including youth representatives
in their delegations at all relevant discussions in the General Assembly and the
Economic and Social Council and its functional commissions and at relevant United
Nations conferences, as appropriate, bearing in mind the principle of gender balance
and non-discrimination, and, inter alia, to consider establishing a national youth
delegate programme, and emphasizes that such youth representatives should be
selected through a transparent process which ensures that they have a suitable
mandate to represent young people in their countries;
20. Calls upon donors, including Member States and intergovernmental and
non-governmental organizations, to actively contribute to the United Nations Youth
Fund in order to facilitate the participation of youth representatives from developing
countries in the activities of the United Nations, taking into account the need for
greater geographical balance of youth representation, as well as to accelerate the
implementation of the World Programme of Action for Youth and to support the
production of the World Youth Report, and in this regard requests the
Secretary-General to take appropriate action to encourage contributions to the Fund;
21. Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to strengthen the United
Nations Programme on Youth within the existing resources of the Department of
Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat so as to meet the increasing demands
on the Programme;
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