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International Youth Day 2020
10-08-2020
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International Youth Day or World Youth Day is one of the awareness days celebrated on every 12th of August. This day is celebrated to recognize the importance and hard work of the Youth and also draw attention to the cultural and legal issues surrounded by our youth. International Youth Day is one of the most important days to promote different ways to engage the young generation of our world to help them and contribute more to our communities and society. Youth represent 16% of the global population and 25% of the total working age population. With 356 million 10-24 year-olds, India has the world's largest youth population and the scond stands China says the recent reports of UN.To enable this Youth population understand their capability is the major concern of developing countries.
Theme of International Youth Day 2020
“Youth Engagement for Global Action” is a theme for the International Youth Day 2020 which focuses both on how the participation of young people at the state, national and global level strengthens national and multilateral structures and processes, and on how to substantially improve their representation and engagement in formal institutional politics.
IYD 2020 seeks to highlight the needs of young people by making them more inclusive in order to increase their potential and their relevance for achieving global change, through local , regional and global institutions.
The UN General Assembly decided to celebrate first International Youth Day on 12 August 1999 with a specific theme to highlight youth issues. Every year the United Nations decides the theme of International Youth Day which raises awareness about the challenges and problems faced by our youth .The official launch of Youth 2030: The United Nations Youth Strategy, took place on 24th September 2018 at a High-Level Event at the United Nations in New York which highlighted the importance of youth to the society.
History of International Youth day
International Youth Day was observed on 12 August which gives an opportunity for our Government to draw the attention of youth issues worldwide. Before the celebration of International Youth Day, In 1985 International Youth year was created and after 10 years some rules and guidelines were established to help people and make them work together to improve the lives of young people.
There are 15 areas which are identified for the youth concern are: “Education, Employment, Poverty, Health, The Environment, Drugs, HIV & AIDS, Young Girls and Women, Globalization, youth conflicts, communication technologies, time activities and Intergenerational relations.
In 1999 International Youth Day was created to accomplish these aims and to understand the issues of our youth. This day was created by United Nations Resolution 54/120, It is a day for people to keep in mind about these aims and to know what they can do for the youth of our world.
Importance of International Youth Day
Youth Day is Important as it focuses on making a better world for the children with a set of priorities according to improvements in the lives of children
Youth Day also helps in making awareness about poverty, many of the children are hungry due to poverty they cannot afford food so it is important to raise awareness about the poverty issues
International Youth Day sets the list of priorities which helps them to think about the important thing that can help our kids and young generations.
This year’s IYD seeks to put the spotlight on youth engagement through the following three interconnected streams:
* Engagement at the local/community level;
* Engagement at the national level (formulation of laws, policies, and their implementation); and,
* Engagement at the global level.
